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Iron Curtain

In Europe after World War II, the symbolic boundary between capitalist West and communist East during the Cold War. The term was popularized by the UK prime minister Winston Churchill from 1946.

An English traveller to Bolshevik Russia, Ethel Snowden (1881–1951), used the term with reference to the Soviet border in 1920. The Nazi minister Goebbels used it a few months before Churchill in 1945 to describe the divide between Soviet‐dominated and other nations that would follow German capitulation.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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5 March 1946
Whilst in America, Winston Churchill makes his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
 

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