COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Joseph Stalin
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Franklin Roosevelt
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Harry Truman
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Winston Churchill
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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: -The Iron Curtain was a Cold War name for the borders between Western and Soviet Europe. It was coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 during a speech in Fulton, Missouri.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term “iron curtain” was the symbol Churchill used to denote the separation of Europe into two rival camps. On one side of the iron curtain were the democracies of western Europe while on the other side were the totalitarian countries of central and eastern European that were dominated by the Soviet Union. 7.
Detailed explanation-4: -It originally referred to fireproof curtains in theaters. The author Alexander Campbell used the term metaphorically in his 1945 book It’s Your Empire, describing “an iron curtain of silence and censorship [which] has descended since the Japanese conquests of 1942".