The Iron Curtain Speech : The Sinews Of Peace By Winston Churchill

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Section A:
The topic for this investigation is to question whether or not the Iron curtain speech also known as The Sinews of peace by Winston Churchill in 1946 was a true reflection of the situation in Europe at the time. The geographical region is mainland Europe. The scope or period for this question is from 1945, a year before the speech- 1956 to when the predictions could be said/argued to be true. The method used to answer this question is by using different sources, primary and secondary sources from website. The main source is the full speech which is to be analyzed to get the true meaning of “The Sand top back this up I will be using books about the cold war and various websites about the speech itself. These sources will argue both sides to accept or reject the question.

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Section C:

Source A – Cartoon, British cartoonist Illingworth, 6 March 1946

This is a cartoon from 1946 by the British cartoonist Illingworth which was published in the Daily Mail on 6 March, the day after Churchill’s Fulton speech. The purpose of this is that It shows Churchill having a peep under a curtain, clearly that curtain represents the so called “iron curtain” and how it separated Europe into two different sides, Western bloc and Eastern bloc. This is an interpretation of the events at this time seen by other countries, which have negative connotations for the country being portrayed and this shows Britain’s public opinion and the opinion clearly comes from the “iron curtain” speech. This can also be seen as a political comment for readers about the events happening in Europe at this time. The value of this cartoon is that it gives different interpretations of the events and these. The limitation of this so...

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...on creating some sort of buffer zone between them and the West by occupying Eastern Europe out of fear that the west would someday attack the Soviet Union. Anne disagrees with this saying that they didn’t think like this, the people that occupied Eastern Europe and the people that collaborated with the soviet weren’t thinking in these terms but the generals who came into the region were thinking they were pushing the boundaries of socialist revolution and It was only a matter of time that they moved Eastern Europe into Western Europe.

People that disagree with the Iron curtain
Joseph Stalin claims that Winston Churchill’s racial theories have set war loose. Only nations that speak the English language are fully and more valuable than other non-speaking nations meaning that they can decide anyone’s destinies. This Is Stalin’s response to Winston Churchill’s speech.

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