S. And Great Britain in order to "curtail any and all future advances into central Europe while under Soviet rule" (Bradley, 376). Although at this time Churchill was no longer Prime Minister of Great Britain, his words echoed the sentiments and fears of all Americans, especially those of President Truman who after the speech acknowledged that Churchill had addressed one of the most important problems of post-war America, namely, that the Soviet Union was a great threat to the security of the United States, particularly if and when the Soviet Union gained access to the atomic bomb.

The term "iron curtain" was first coined by Churchill in his speech to the faculty and students of Westminster College on that cold and blustery day in March of 1946. Churchill stated that beginning roughly at the Baltic Sea and extending into the Adriatic, "an iron curtain has descended across the continent," and...
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