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: -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. The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance established in 1955 between the Soviet Union and numerous Eastern Bloc states.

Detailed explanation-3: -32.1. 3: The Iron Curtain On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill gave a speech declaring that an “iron curtain” had descended across Europe, pointing to efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an “iron curtain” has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.