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.
No, that was already in progress. The term was invented by Sir Winston Churchill, during a speech. It was a literal Iron Curtain, a metal fence placed between East and West. Sometimes with minefields and barbed wire or concrete walls. In other places just a high wire fence.