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 is a boundary which divided Europe into two  separate zones, symbolically, politically and physically .This  began at the end of World War II and continue â¦ d until the end of the  Cold War, i.e. from about 1945 to 1990.ith the Iron Curtain in  place, some of the Eastern and Central European countries were  under the political influence of the Soviet Union. Exceptions were  West Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Austria.