COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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FDR
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Truman
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MacArthur
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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. Top image courtesy of America’s National Churchill Museum.
Detailed explanation-2: -Winston Churchill had been the Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II. 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.
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.