- Location
- Switzerland
- Name
- Matt
- Start Date
- Mar 5, 2021
- End Date
- Mar 5, 2021
This day marks the 75th anniversary of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech; a take on the times' political developments so immensely popular he went on to repeat it over and over for several years to come (he gave another version of it in Zurich in 1947).
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Iron Curtain speech | History, Summary, & Significance
Iron Curtain speech, speech delivered by Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an ‘iron curtain’ across Europe.
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