March 5th, 1946 was a memorable day in US History. On that day, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered the most important and influential of his post-war speeches at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In his speech, he addressed publicly his feelings towards the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe. His speech was seen by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin as “war mongering” and it signaled the onset of the Cold War against the Soviet Union. Churchill’s words acknowledged and announced a truth which so many in the West were hesitant to admit – the beginning of the Cold War. He used the term “Iron Curtain” to describe the impenetrable barrier erected by the Soviet Union to prevent open contact between its dependent eastern and
