Iron Curtain Speech

What did Stalin say about the Iron Curtain speech?

"Mr Churchill has called for a war on the USSR"

When was the Iron Curtain Speech Made?

5th March 1946

Whom invited Churchill to America?

President Truman

How did the Iron Curtain speech threaten world peace?

Stalin recognized speech as a direct threat of war, a war could quite possibly have started

What were the relations like between superpowers at the time in which the Iron Curtain Speech was made, why?

Uneasy - Soviet expansion into eastern Europe, USA saw it as the USSR attempting to build a communist empire prepared to fight capitalism and the western world.

Where did the Iron Curtain Speech take place?

Westminster College of Fenton, Missouri

Who made the Iron Curtain Speech?

Winston Churchill

What did Churchill say had fallen on Eastern Europe, meaning?

a 'shadow', cut off from a free world by an Iron Curtain

What is the Iron Curtain?

a metaphorical barrier between the Soviet/Eastern Bloc and the West

What did the Iron Curtain speech focus on?

giving the world recognition of the division of former allies in WW2

What effect did the Iron Curtain Speech have on relations between superpowers?

heightened tensions massively: - USSR felt directly threatened and on edge - USA feared the soviet expansion even more - speech confirmed what was happening

What did Churchill say was happening behind the line of the Iron Curtain?

people were subject to soviet influence, under totalitarian control run by police gov.

Why did Churchill make the Iron Curtain Speech?

to explain to the world what was happening in Eastern Europe