Winston Churchill delivered the famous "Iron Curtain" speech on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In this speech, he articulated the division of Europe after World War II, highlighting the ideological conflict between the Western democracies and the Eastern communist bloc led by the Soviet Union. The term "Iron Curtain" symbolized the physical and ideological boundary that separated these two realms. Churchill's speech marked the beginning of a new phase in the geopolitical landscape, foreshadowing the Cold War tensions that would dominate the following decades.