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.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: It divided Eastern and Western Europe from 1945 through the Cold War. In his address Sir Winston Churchill said: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.