5th March 1946: Churchill makes his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech

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5th March 2020

5th March 1946: Churchill makes his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech

On the 5^th March 1946, Winston Churchill described the post-war division of Europe as an “iron curtain” in his “Sinews of Peace” address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.

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5th March 1946: Churchill makes his ‘Iron Curtain’ speech

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