Churchill Coins Iron Curtain: The Cold War Gets Its Name
Winston Churchill declares an iron curtain has descended across Europe during a speech at Westminster College, Missouri, instantly crystallizing the geopolitical divide that would define the Cold War for decades. This rhetorical strike forced the United States and Soviet Union into open ideological confrontation, transforming vague post-war tensions into a rigid binary of East versus West.
March 5, 1946
80 years ago
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Winston Churchill
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Westminster College, Missouri
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Cold War
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Soviet Union
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United States
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Winston Churchill
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Missouri
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Westminster College (Missouri)
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University
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Fulton (Misuri)
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Harold S. Shapiro
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