Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech The beginning of the Cold War: On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, delivered a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in which he gave public recognition to the division that had arisen between the former Allies from World War II. The Soviet Union had pursued different goals from the Western Allies- the United States and Great Britain- causing political tensions in Europe and elsewhere. This speech is known as the "Iron Curtain" speech (and also by the title "Sinews of Peace"). From Winston Churchill's “Iron Curtain" Speech in Fulton, Missouri (1946) A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. 1. According to the Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if why should the West any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies. I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my war-time comrade, Marshal Stalin. There is sympathy and good will in Britain - and I doubt not here also- toward the peoples of all the Russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships. We understand the Russians need to be secure on her western frontiers from all renewal of German aggression. We welcome her to her rightful place among the leading nations of the world. Above all we welcome constant, frequent, and growing contacts between the Russian people and our own people on both sides of the Atlantic. It is my"iron curtain"? duty, however, to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe - I am sure I do not wish to, but it is my duty, I feel, to present them to you. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the curtain? (Might need ancient states of central and eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone, with its immortal glories, is free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation. The Russian dominated Polish opening sentences, be weary of Soviet Russia? A. Proselytizing- to persuade people to join a group or cause 2. Why do you think Churchill speaks so highly of Soviet Russia in this opening paragraph? B. Rebuff- blunt or abrupt refusal 3. What did Churchill mean by the term 4. According to the speech, what specific countries reside behind the iron to use your phone to look up these cities for this one) 5. Why do you think Churchill decided to cite such ancient cities as Athens, government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed of are now taking place. The Communist parties, 6. What does which were very small in all these eastern states of Europe, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking the influence of everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case. I do not believe that Soviet Russia desires war. fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines. From what I have seen of our Russian friends and allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military Budapest, Vienna, etc.? C. preeminence- superior to or notable above all others Churchill say about communist groups in other nations? What they desire is the 7. What do the statements in the final paragraph reveal about Churchill's views of Russia's objectives in 1946? weakness.

Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech The beginning of the Cold War: On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, delivered a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, in which he gave public recognition to the division that had arisen between the former Allies from World War II. The Soviet Union had pursued different goals from the Western Allies- the United States and Great Britain- causing political tensions in Europe and elsewhere. This speech is known as the "Iron Curtain" speech (and also by the title "Sinews of Peace"). From Winston Churchill's “Iron Curtain" Speech in Fulton, Missouri (1946) A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. 1. According to the Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if why should the West any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies. I have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant Russian people and for my war-time comrade, Marshal Stalin. There is sympathy and good will in Britain - and I doubt not here also- toward the peoples of all the Russias and a resolve to persevere through many differences and rebuffs in establishing lasting friendships. We understand the Russians need to be secure on her western frontiers from all renewal of German aggression. We welcome her to her rightful place among the leading nations of the world. Above all we welcome constant, frequent, and growing contacts between the Russian people and our own people on both sides of the Atlantic. It is my"iron curtain"? duty, however, to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe - I am sure I do not wish to, but it is my duty, I feel, to present them to you. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the curtain? (Might need ancient states of central and eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in the Soviet sphere and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone, with its immortal glories, is free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation. The Russian dominated Polish opening sentences, be weary of Soviet Russia? A. Proselytizing- to persuade people to join a group or cause 2. Why do you think Churchill speaks so highly of Soviet Russia in this opening paragraph? B. Rebuff- blunt or abrupt refusal 3. What did Churchill mean by the term 4. According to the speech, what specific countries reside behind the iron to use your phone to look up these cities for this one) 5. Why do you think Churchill decided to cite such ancient cities as Athens, government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed of are now taking place. The Communist parties, 6. What does which were very small in all these eastern states of Europe, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking the influence of everywhere to obtain totalitarian control. Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case. I do not believe that Soviet Russia desires war. fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power and doctrines. From what I have seen of our Russian friends and allies during the war, I am convinced that there is nothing they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military Budapest, Vienna, etc.? C. preeminence- superior to or notable above all others Churchill say about communist groups in other nations? What they desire is the 7. What do the statements in the final paragraph reveal about Churchill's views of Russia's objectives in 1946? weakness.