The National Churchill Museum , located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, United States, commemorates the life and times of Sir Winston Churchill. In 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous Sinews of Peace address in the Westminster Historic Gymnasium. In it was the line: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. This sentence caused the oration to become known as the Iron Curtain speech. Sinews of Peace heralded the beginning of the Cold War. The National Churchill Museum comprises three distinct but related elements: the Church of St Mary Aldermanbury, the museum, and the Breakthrough sculpture.
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