It has been nearly 80 years since Winston Churchill delivered his ‘Iron Curtain Speech’ but the message in it still resonates ...
Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...
Hamburg Berlin Cologne Frankfurt Three and a half decades after reunification, a line runs through Germany where the Iron Curtain once stood. Instead of barbed wires and dogs, that line now ...
The analogy, of course, was from the Iron Curtain, coined after World War II that separated the Soviet Union from the West. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...
In 1946, Winston Churchill, in a famous speech in Fulton, Mo., stated that a Soviet Union "Iron Curtain" had "descended across" Europe. File Photo courtesy Cecil Beaton/Imperial War Museums In ...
Echoing Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech that ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape, Vice President J.D. Vance just delivered a speech in Munich, Germany that I ...
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 ...