Churchill's 'iron curtain' speech online

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By Sean Coughlan
BBC News education reporter




"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."

Winston Churchill's talismanic speech about the onset of the cold war has been made available as an online educational resource.

Delivered in Fulton, Missouri in 1946, it spelt out the deepening tensions between the western democracies and the Soviet Union, as their wartime alliance turned into peace time hostility.

Churchill's speech has been turned into an online resource, with the recording available both in its entirety and also divided into sections. It is accompanied by photographs and notes providing background information about the historical context.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4410051.stm