The “Iron Curtain”
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Abstract

On May 5, 1946, in a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, the former British prime minister Winston Churchill offered up a metaphor that would come to define the Cold War division between the Soviet-controlled Eastern bloc countries and members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), led by the United States. According to Churchill, an “iron curtain” had descended across the continent, dividing it into Eastern and Western blocs.

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