The Dahlonega Gold Rush started in Georgia when a resident accidentally stumbled across gold. Word got out and many people came from miles and miles away to get a chance at getting some gold. Dahlonega is known to be the first gold rush in the United States, but it was not bigger than the California Gold Rush. It started in 1829 and lasted around 10 years, as gold readily became scarce and the California Gold Rush started which caused people to head west in hopes of finding more.
Churchill was the first to coin the term "Iron Curtian" in relation to the USSR land holdings in eastern europe, the USSR leaving smaller countries as a buffer zone for an attack on Russia
