Iron Curtain Speech

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What was the Iron Curtain Speech

1964 Speech delivered by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Missouri where he said "An iron Curtain has descended across Europe", the curtain refereeing to communism.

When was speech given?

5 March 1946

Iron Curtain Speech About?

In March 1946, in a speech to and American audience, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that "an iron curtain" Had "descended across the continent," dividing Germany and Europe into two hostile camps. Stalin branded this speech as a "call to war with the Soviet Union"

"Iron Curtain"

is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II.

East of the iron curtain

were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the former Soviet Union. This included part of Germany (East Germany), Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania (until 1960 when it aligned with China).


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