Iron curtain
You're probably thinking about the speech he made in Fulton Missouri in 1946 when he said 'From Stettin in the north to Trieste in the south, an Iron Curtain has descended over Europe'.
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He said an "iron curtain" has descended across the continent.
Hitlers plan was to conqour all of Europe, then expand. Australia, being that it is an island, would have nowhere to go if Hitler decided to invade. Hitler, in most peoples opinion, was sort of an underlying threat throughout the whole war, though Australia never actually acted on it.
Winston Churchill
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." ~ Winston Churchill, speech at Fulton, Missouri, 1946
The Iron Curtain is the term Churchill used to describe the division of Europe. Winston Churchill served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
East Europe(USSR) and West Europe
You're probably thinking about the speech he made in Fulton Missouri in 1946 when he said 'From Stettin in the north to Trieste in the south, an Iron Curtain has descended over Europe'.
After ww2, Churchill gave this speech because Europe was now divided by communism and non communism. The imaginary iron curtain that divided these two governments and economies is what he refers to in the speech
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Winston Churchill.
Winston Churchill
The term Cold War came from Churchill.
The term iron curtain was used by Winston Churchill to describe the border between communist western Europe and democratic eastern Europe.
This barrier became known as the Iron Curtain. The term was coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the Cold War. He used it to describe the division between Eastern and Western Europe, when the counties of Eastern Europe were isolated from the West politically, economically and socially.
He said an "iron curtain" has descended across the continent.