Timeline Tuesday 5 March 1946

Events on Tuesday 5 March 1946 1

• 1946 Churchill Delivers the Iron Curtain Speech Churchill warns of Soviet expansion across Europe Speaking at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill declared that an "iron curtain" had descended across the continent, separating Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe from the West. Though Churchill was no longer prime minister, the speech crystallized Western fears of Soviet expansion and is widely regarded as marking the rhetorical opening of the Cold War.