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Iron Curtain speech (1946)

On the Cold War map as ““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.”

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Turning point
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Origins of the Cold War (chapter 1 of Cold War)
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The Cold War, 1945–1991
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