Iron Curtain Speech
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Date
March 05, 1946
Type
World
Author
hjwilson1975
Location
Fulton,
Missouri,
United States
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Event Details
Winston Churchill delivered his famous 'Sinews of Peace' address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, where he first used the term 'Iron Curtain'.
The speech warned of the descending divide in Europe between Western democracies and the Soviet-controlled Eastern Bloc, marking the beginning of the Cold War rhetoric.