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The Speech That Shaped the Cold War World Order

March 5, 2021
The Speech That Shaped the Cold War World Order
The Speech That Shaped the Cold War World Order

The Speech That Shaped the Cold War World Order

David Reynolds, Tim Riley, Kori Schake, and William Inboden

On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. This speech, known as “The Sinews of Peace” speech, became famous for the phrase that Churchill coined about the fall of the “Iron Curtain” across Europe.

 

To mark its 75th anniversary, the Clements Center assembled a panel to discuss the speech itself, the context in which it was given, and its enduring impact. The conversation is hosted by Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center, and features David Reynolds, professor of international history at Cambridge University, Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Tim Riley, director of the National Churchill Museum.

 

 

You can listen to the speech at the National Churchill Museum.

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