“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. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.”
Historians are still debating exactly why (and exactly when) the Cold War began. But most historians would agree that a key event in the emerging Cold War was Winston Churchill’s ‘Iron curtain’ speech delivered on 5 March 1946 in Fulton, Missouri:
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