Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which statesman popularized the term "The Iron Curtain" in a 1946 speech?"
On March 5, 1946, Sir Winston Churchill delivered a speech that went down in history as the "Iron Curtain Speech." Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemned the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declared, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” The term symbolized the efforts by the Soviet Union to block itself and its satellite states from open contact with the West and its allied states. The speech is remembered as the announcement to the world of the beginning of the Cold War.