WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Then, on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Churchill’s famous words “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent, ” ushered in the Cold War and framed the geo-political landscape for the next 50 years.

Detailed explanation-2: -In this speech, Churchill talks about the Cold War that was developing between the West and the Soviet-controlled East, in the wake of the end of the Second World War. His metaphor of an ‘iron curtain’, although not originally his, became forever associated with him after this speech.