USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech ushered in the Cold War and made the term a household phrase.

Detailed explanation-2: -Winston Churchill had been the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. It was Churchill who coined the term Iron Curtain in a 1946 speech he delivered in Missouri. It refers to the fact that Eastern Europe was more or less controlled by the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term “iron curtain” had been employed as a metaphor since the 19th century, but Churchill used it to refer specifically to the political, military, and ideological barrier created by the U.S.S.R.

Detailed explanation-4: -It originally referred to fireproof curtains in theaters. The author Alexander Campbell used the term metaphorically in his 1945 book It’s Your Empire, describing “an iron curtain of silence and censorship [which] has descended since the Japanese conquests of 1942".

Detailed explanation-5: -Churchill was worried that the USA would withdraw from international affairs as it had done in the 1930s and he thought this would be bad for international relations.