Russia-Ukraine crisis: 9 milestone moments in history that explain today\u2019s invasion<\/a><\/h4>\nWhy is Ukraine being invaded, and what might Russia want from its neighbouring country? To make sense of the current crisis we must understand the history of the relationship between the two inextricably linked countries. Here, Professor Serhy Yekelchyk, an expert in Ukrainian history and Russian-Ukrainian relations, highlights nine milestone moments<\/strong><\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>
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<\/div><\/div> <\/div> <\/section>The term was used long before the Cold War. Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, used the term to describe the political division between Belgium and Germany in 1914, and several authors employed the phrase throughout the early 20th century. Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels, was concerned about an iron curtain falling if Germany lost the war.<\/p>\n
Which statesman popularised the term \u2018Iron Curtain\u2019 in a 1946 speech?<\/h2>\n
The term only became common parlance after a speech on 5 March 1946<\/a> by former British Prime Minster Winston Churchill<\/a>.<\/p>\nChurchill had been invited to speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, by President Harry Truman. In his speech, he condemned the expansionist policies of the Soviet Union: \u201cFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/div><\/div> <\/div> <\/section>The term was used long before the Cold War. Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, used the term to describe the political division between Belgium and Germany in 1914, and several authors employed the phrase throughout the early 20th century. Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels, was concerned about an iron curtain falling if Germany lost the war.<\/p>\n
Which statesman popularised the term \u2018Iron Curtain\u2019 in a 1946 speech?<\/h2>\n
The term only became common parlance after a speech on 5 March 1946<\/a> by former British Prime Minster Winston Churchill<\/a>.<\/p>\n Churchill had been invited to speak at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, by President Harry Truman. In his speech, he condemned the expansionist policies of the Soviet Union: \u201cFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n