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 Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain seemed to be a permanent fixture after 1961. However, on November 9th 1989, the impossible happened: the Berlin Wall opened.This triggered a chain reaction of events, throughout Europe and marked the beginning of the fall of the Soviet empire.est Answer: Because communism failed as a government. The berlin wall fell around in the 1980s but people say that communism started to crumble in the late 1970s, and russia just couldn't keep up its power in other countries like it use to.