Known colloquially as “the Iron Curtain Speech,” this event had an important impact on framing the primordial threat to world peace in the post-World War II period – the Cold War – and to ...

Winston Churchill addressing a crowd in London in July 1945 "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." Winston Churchill's talismanic ...

Churchill’s Prophetic Warning: ‘An Iron Curtain Has Descended’ Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in Yalta, February 1945 (National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons) Share ...

Author Candice Millard and Institute of Museum and Library Services Director Crosby Kemper III talked about Winston Churchill's 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech with [Washington Post] columnist David ...

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers a speech at Westminster College that addressed the Communist threat, and in which he uttered the now-famous phrase 'Iron Curtain,' Fulton, Mo ...

As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

On March 5, 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued a warning to the West in his famous “Iron Curtain” speech. In Fulton, Missouri, Churchill spoke of the impending ...

In Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ speech as prophetic — and chilling — today as it was 72 years ago, Senior Fellow in Western European Affairs at the London Center for Policy Research Lee Cohen explores ...

Fulton, Missouri, is an unlikely town where world leaders — most famously Winston Churchill — deliver lectures on international affairs. ... world affairs — and America's role in them — among people ...

Timothy Riley, the National Churchill Museum director and chief curator, discussed the speech that Winston Churchill gave to Missouri’s Westminster College in which he discussed the growth of ...