Iron Curtain Speech And The Cold War
Iron Curtain Speech And The Cold War. Historians are still debating exactly why (and exactly when) the Cold War began. The attempts by the Central Intelligence Agency-funded Radio.
The memorable phrases of the speech became the new language of the Cold War. Churchill's comparison between the years before Hitler's rise to power and the present Soviet threat in Europe. A war without true fighting but a staring match through the curtain of communism.
Churchill's Iron Curtain speech was the brainchild of President Harry S.
Rarely has one speech created a whole new political condition.
In his speech he called for the USA and the west to stand up against the spread of communism beyond. Stalin's response to the 'Iron Curtain' speech — which Churchill titled 'The Sinews of Peace' — was to accuse the former PM of war mongering and But like any war, it needed public support. It was Churchill's speech, which he titled.