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Churchill’s fears of democracy’s decline realized in the American iron curtain built by Trump’s oligarchs
In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United ...
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On This Day: Winston Churchill gives 'Iron Curtain' speech
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 ...
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Photo of Churchill and Truman parade immortalized by 11-year-old before famous speech
The address would go down in history as the "Iron Curtain Speech." Caption: The streets were filled as two men who led two nations separated by an ocean through devastating and uncertain times ...
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Did Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech start the Cold War? – Cold War Britain in 1946
In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into ... Churchill used the term in a speech in which he outlined the ...
11 Chilling Facts About the Cold War
Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban Missile Crisis; glasnost and perestroika in the USSR; the fall of the ...