Winston Churchill - The Iron Curtain - 1946
On March 5, 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The speech, which has become known as "The Iron Curtain," was delivered in the early stages of the Cold War and is considered one of Churchill's most famous speeches. In the speech, Churchill warned of the growing threat of Soviet expansionism in Europe and called for a firm stance against Soviet aggression. He coined the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the division between Western Europe and the Soviet Union, which had fallen under communist control after World War II. Churchill noted that the Iron Curtain had descended across the continent, cutting off Eastern Europe from the West and creating a "sinister" world of communist dictatorships. Churchill's speech was a stark warning to the Western world of the dangers of Soviet aggression and expansionism. He called for an Anglo-American alliance to stand up against Soviet encr...