POST WAR WORLD 1946 1959
THE DESCENT OF THE IRON CURTAIN
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John F Kennedy
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Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Winston Churchill
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Harry S. Truman
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Detailed explanation-1: -Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech ushered in the Cold War and made the term a household phrase.
Detailed explanation-2: -On March 5, 1946, Sir Winston Churchill visited Westminster College as the Green Lecturer and delivered “Sinews of Peace, ” a message heard round the world that went down in history as the “Iron Curtain Speech."
Detailed explanation-3: -It was Churchill who coined the term Iron Curtain in a 1946 speech he delivered in Missouri. It refers to the fact that Eastern Europe was more or less controlled by the Soviet Union. The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance established in 1955 between the Soviet Union and numerous Eastern Bloc states.
Detailed explanation-4: -Churchill hated the Soviet Union and wanted to cause problems for it. Churchill was worried that the USA would withdraw from international affairs as it had done in the 1930s and he thought this would be bad for international relations.
Detailed explanation-5: -America’s National Churchill Museum | Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech, Fulton, MO.