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.
The Iron Curtain was a name, coined by Winston Churchill in 1946, for the Soviet occupation of eastern Europe. 2. From 1947 to 1951, billions of dollars of US loans were advanced to European nations for post-war rebuilding.