The Cold War And Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain

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In defiance, Joseph Stalin established the so-called Iron Curtain. A metaphor which not only describes physical border between the two blocs, the West led by the United States and the East led by the Soviet Union, but also the ideological separation. In this respect, Winston Churchill, in a speech in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, declared, ‘From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the [European] Continent.’ These words officially marked the beginning of the Cold War. This struggle, known as the Cold War, lasted from about 1946 to 1991, beginning with the second Red Scare and ending with the August Coup when the Soviet Union

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