In this short film for secondary schools historian Dominic Sandbrook explains how the phrase the ‘Iron Curtain’ came into ... Churchill used the term in a speech in which he outlined the ...

in a famous speech in Fulton, Mo., stated that a Soviet Union "Iron Curtain" had "descended across" Europe. In 1953, the Soviet Union announced that dictator Joseph Stalin had died at age 73.

Stalin feared that Eastern Europe could be ... from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. – Winston Churchill, 5 March 1946 ...