Iron Curtain Speech Impact
Iron Curtain Speech Impact. Churchill's famous speech convinced many Americans that the USSR was an enemy rather than an ally, which led to the creation of the Truman Doctrine. But it is the passage on "the iron curtain" which attracted immediate international attention, and had incalculable impact upon public opinion in the United States and in Western Europe.
This article on the Iron Curtain speech is from James Humes's book Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman. Related discussions on The Student Room. But it is the passage on "the iron curtain" which attracted immediate international attention, and had incalculable impact upon public opinion in the United States and in Western Europe.
While Winston Churchill did not create the Cold War, he gave the amorphous condition plaguing relations between the free and Communist worlds a new dramatic image in his phrase about an Iron Curtain descending upon Europe. (essay.
The speech had NOTHING to do with the Berlin Wall, which was built many years later, although the Wall is future evidence of what Churchill said. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "iron curtain" has descended across the Continent.
Politicians give speeches all the time. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient. Most of what they say is quickly forgotten, or perhaps better never said in the first place.