FULTON, Mo., March 5, 1946 (UP) - Winston Churchill said today that Russia seeks indefinite expansion of her power and doctrines, and called for a permanent Anglo-American military alliance which ...

In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into being when, as a guest of President Truman in 1946, Winston Churchill ...

In fact, less than a year after the war had ended, Winston Churchill gave his now famous 'Iron Curtain' speech in the United States, in March of 1946. Perhaps because of his continued efforts to ...

In 1946, Winston Churchill coined a memorable phrase: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” he said. Today the Soviet ...

The Iron Curtain For his part, Stalin began creating what Winston Churchill would call the "Iron Curtain." "From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic," said Churchill, "an iron curtain ...

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was an intensely human hero ... the cold war, the Iron Curtain, Europe’s drive for unity, disorder and dictatorship in many of the lands that had once been ...

Winston Churchill served as the British prime minister ... where he argued Britain and the U.S. should remain allied as “an iron curtain has descended across the continent” – the threat ...

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In his famous 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., Winston Churchill saluted “the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples.” The world remembered ...

FULTON, Mo., March 5, 1946 (UP) - Winston Churchill said today that Russia seeks indefinite expansion of her power and doctrines, and called for a permanent Anglo-American military alliance which ...