On March 5th, 1946, history was made. Winston Churchill, a former British Prime Minister, was a determined man who wanted to take charge. To warn America on how the Soviets were acting, he gave a speech known as the “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In his speech, he discussed the importance of peace and ending communism between the Western powers and the Soviet Union. At the beginning of his speech, Churchill caught the nations attention quickly by explaining, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” Behind the iron curtain, the famous cities—Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, Sofia, Bucharest, and Belgrade—were under brutal control
