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”Iron Curtain” speech

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”Iron Curtain” speech an address given by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He named his speech “The Sinews of Peace” and called for an alliance against the spread of Soviet communism, which he believed had spread an “iron curtain” across Eastern Europe.

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