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By June 1945, the war in Europe had been over. President Roosevelt had died on 12 April, just before VE Day. He did not live to see the end of the fighting although he had been one of the great architects of the defeat of Nazi Germany on the continent.
Roosevelt's successor was Harry S. Truman.
It was during his administration that American diplomatic attention was quickly turned from Germany and Japan to the Soviet Union.
The end of the Second World War also marked virtually the beginning of what came to be known as the "Cold War."
Not long after the war ended, Churchill received an invitation to speak at the Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, America. The world was eager to hear what he had to say about the new, post-war world.
President Truman deemed the visit of such importance that he even added a personal note onto the official College invitation card.
Churchill did not disappoint. The speech he made at Westminster, officially titled "The Sinews of Peace," was thereafter universally known as his "Iron Curtain" speech.
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