Iron Curtain Speech Test Questions – Flashcards

1964 Speech delivered by Winston Churchill at Fulton, Missouri where he said "An iron Curtain has descended across Europe", the curtain refereeing to communism.

In March 1946, in a speech to and American audience, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared that "an iron curtain" Had "descended across the continent," dividing Germany and Europe into two hostile camps. Stalin branded this speech as a "call to war with the Soviet Union"

5 March 1946

is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II.

were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the former Soviet Union. This included part of Germany (East Germany), Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania (until 1960 when it aligned with China).