A rare âmedicaneâ formed in the Mediterranean Sea and is producing strong winds and rain in southeast France. Tropical storm Sean could become a hurricane.
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous Iron Curtain speech to a crowd of more than 40,000 people. The speech was named by Churchill, The Sinews of Peace, and changed the way the democratic West viewed the Communist East.
Although the Berlin wall was a very significant representation of the Iron Curtain, no one border or wall was the Iron Curtain. Winston Churchill used the term Iron Curtain in his famous speech on March 5 1946, at Westminister College. He came up with this term to describe the division of Europe.