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Bookmark or Share- Iron Curtain | Definition & Facts | BritannicaIron Curtain, political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the U.S.S.R after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas. The term came to prominence after its use in a speech by Winston Churchill.
- Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech—March 5, 1946It not only made the term “iron curtain” a household phrase, but it coined the term “special relationship,” describing enduring alliance between the United States and Great Britain. It is a speech that offered a blueprint for the west to ultimately wage—and win—the Cold War.
- Iron curtain - New World EncyclopediaThe Iron Curtain is a Western term made famous by Winston Churchill referring to the boundary which symbolically, ideologically, and physically divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II, until the end of the Cold War, roughly 1945 to 1990.
- Iron Curtain speech (1946) | Summary, Meaning, & SignificanceWinston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. In it 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.
- Iron Curtain - WikipediaThe Iron Curtain as described by Churchill at Westminster College. Note that Vienna ( center, red regions, third down) lies east of the Curtain, as part of the Austrian Soviet-occupied zone of Austria. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
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