With this section of Winston Churchill's famous speech in 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, he coined the term "Iron Curtain." Most people believe that Winston Churchill was referring directly to the Berlin Wall, but he was actually talking about the general closing off of Soviet satellite countries in Eastern Europe. ...

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Many people say that the Cold War really began with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech where he described an "Iron Curtain" which was an imaginary line that separated the East and the West. ...

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On August 13, 1961 the Berlin Wall was built and devided the city of Berlin for more than 28 years. It was built to stop large numbers of defections and to prevent East Berliners from commuting to the West. A lot of suffering began for Germany when World War II started. By the end of the war Germa...

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