The term “Iron Curtain” describing the growing influence of the Soviet Union in Europe was first used by Winston Churchill in a speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. The college is now home to the National Churchill Museum, housed in a 17th-century English church that was relocated stone by stone from London to Missouri in the 1960s.
Where did Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt meet for a famous 1943 conference, codenamed “Symbol”?
A) Algiers
B) Casablanca
C) Tripoli
D) Tunis
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