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-Free countries of Western Europe are blue, Communist countries of Eastern Europe are red,Yugoslavia was bloc-free. As the protest movement got stronger East German television announced on November 9, 1989 that all citizens were free to travel to West Germany.