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Turning point · The Cold War, 1945–1991
“An iron curtain has descended”
5 Mar 1946 — At a small college in Fulton, Missouri, Churchill names the division of Europe. Stalin answers that the speech is “a call to war.”
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — The World the War Left in The Cold War, 1945–1991.
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