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It didn't. The Soviets were already distancing themselves from the west. It would be good to get an Eastern perspective on this: I just don't see it happening. The Cold War arose from the ashes of WW2, why is quite another question....

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It caused tension because it showed that Britain and the USA were 'teaming up' against Stalin. It also 'stirred the pot' in a way because Churchill didn't have to make such a speech but he decided to anyway and knew it would anger Stalin. This caused further tension between the big three and resulted on atomic/nuclear war as well as the cold war. Hope I helped :)

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Churchill's speech predicted that an Iron Curtain would descend across Europe, it did not cause it to happen. The Russians did that.

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Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech", also called "The Sinews of Peace", was given on March 5, 1946 at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri.

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