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    Winston Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946 in Fulton, Missouri while serving as the Leader of the Opposition. In the speech, Churchill coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas controlled by the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The passage on the "Iron Curtain" attracted immediate international attention and had a significant impact on public opinion in Western Europe and the United States. Russian historians date the beginning of the Cold War from this pivotal speech.

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    Winston Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946 in Fulton, Missouri while serving as the Leader of the Opposition. In the speech, Churchill coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas controlled by the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The passage on the "Iron Curtain" attracted immediate international attention and had a significant impact on public opinion in Western Europe and the United States. Russian historians date the beginning of the Cold War from this pivotal speech.

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    Winston Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946 in Fulton, Missouri while serving as the Leader of the Opposition. In the speech, Churchill coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas controlled by the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The passage on the "Iron Curtain" attracted immediate international attention and had a significant impact on public opinion in Western Europe and the United States. Russian historians date the beginning of the Cold War from this pivotal speech.

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    Iron Curtain speech

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    THIS SPEECH MAY BE REGARDED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT CHURCHILL

    DELIVERED AS LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION (1945-1951). IT CONTAINS

    CERTAIN PHRASES- “THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP,” “THE SINEWS OF PEACE ”

    – WHICH AT ONCE ENTERED INTO GENERAL USE, AND WHICH HAVE SURVIVED.

    BUT IT IS THE PASSAGE ON “THE IRON CURTAIN” WHICH ATTRACTED

    IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL ATTENTION, AND HAD INCALCULABLE IMPACT

    UPON PUBLIC OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES AND IN WESTERN EUROPE.

    RUSSIAN HISTORIANS DATE THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR FROM THIS

    SPEECH.

    WHO WAS

    CHURCHIL?

    DATES

    WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS AN INSPIRATIONAL

    STATESMAN, WRITER, ORATOR AND LEADER

    WHO LED BRITAIN TO VICTORY IN THE SECOND

    WORLD WAR. HE SERVED AS CONSERVATIVE

    PRIME MINISTER TWICE - FROM 1940 TO 1945

    (BEFORE BEING DEFEATED IN THE 1945

    GENERAL ELECTION BY THE LABOUR LEADER

    CLEMENT ATTLEE) AND FROM 1951 TO 1955.

    THE DYING MEMBERS OF WORLD WAR

    II STILL CAST A SHADOW LONG OVER

    THE POSTWAR WORLD WHEN

    WINSTON CHURCHILL

    ARRIVED IN THE SMALL

    MIDWESTERN TOWN OF FULTON,

    MISSOURI IN THE SPRING OF 1946.

    EXPRESIO
    NS

    FROM THE

    SPEECH

    1) BLOOD , TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT .

    2) HE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

    3) HE SINEWS OF PEACE

    FUENTES DE INFORMACIÓN:

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