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 divides the line between the Western and Eastern part of Europe. In the Eastern part of Europe under the rule of the Soviet Union, Communism was the type of g â¦ overnment practiced.While The other part enjoyed a democratic form of government.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.