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   Winston Churchill thought the Cold War required a three-part strategy: Military Strength - to balance the Soviet armies in the face of allies that were demobilizing after World War II. Dialogue with Russia - to prevent antagonism from becoming war, particularly nuclear war.

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3. www.britannica.com › topic › Iron-Curtain-SpeechIron Curtain speech (1946) | Summary, Meaning, & Significance ...

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   Sep 14, 2024 · Winston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. In it he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” across Europe.

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4. www.churchillarchive.com › teaching-and-researchChurchill Archive Platform - Winston Churchill and the Cold War

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   Between the onset of the Cold War and his retirement from politics in 1955, Churchill would transform himself from the scourge of Soviet communism into a high-profile advocate of détente. To understand this process of evolution, his Cold War career needs to be considered as a series of interlocking phases.

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   Jul 6, 2018 · Historians still argue over the effect of Churchill’s Fulton speech. Could the Cold War have been avoided without his intervention?

6. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk › education › resources'Iron curtain' speech - The National Archives

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   Extracts from Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech given in the USA in March 1946 (Catalogue ref: FO 371/51624)

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   Feb 19, 2020 · If the Soviet dictator refused to accept an all-European settlement rooted in Western democratic values, Churchill proposed to tell him directly that “the nations that have fought the last war for freedom, have had enough of this war of nerves and intimidation,” this so-called Cold War.

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   How did Winston Churchill plan the Cold War?

   • Winston Churchill thought the Cold War required a three-part strategy: Military Strength - to balance the Soviet armies in the face of allies that were demobilizing after World War II. Dialogue with Russia - to prevent antagonism from becoming war, particularly nuclear war.

   Winston Churchill and the Cold War

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   How did Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' affect the Cold War?

   • The “Iron Curtain” came to define the Cold War divide until the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989. Just two years after the speech, Stalin’s Berlin Blockade sought to “Shut the ‘Open Window’ in the Iron Curtain.” 73 Churchill’s speech influenced an entire generation of politicians on both sides of the Atlantic.

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   What did Winston Churchill say about the Iron Curtain?

   • Winston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. In it he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” across Europe.

   Iron Curtain speech - Encyclopedia Britannica

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   What books did Churchill write about the Cold War?

   • 46 Paul A. Rahe, “The Beginning of the Cold War,” in Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech” Fifty Years Later, 49. 47 Ibid., 63. 50 Kemper, “Rhetoric,” 26. 51 Gilbert, Never Despair, 219. 52 Truman shared these plans with Churchill on the train to Fulton. See Gilbert, Never Despair, 208. 53 Rahe, “The Beginning,” 64. 54 Ibid., 50.

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   What was Churchill's role in the Cold War?

   • The Cold War had just produced its first proxy hot war. In 1951, upon becoming Prime Minister again, Churchill devoted much of his energies to Cold War issues, and a minimum to domestic policies. The Korean War had begun the year before, and Churchill supported British participation in the United Nations forces.

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   Did Winston Churchill deliver a World War II speech?

   • The dying embers of World War II still cast a shadow long over the postwar world when Winston Churchill arrived in the small Midwestern town of Fulton, Missouri in the spring of 1946. Westminster College seemed an unlikely place for the former British Prime Minister to deliver a speech of global importance.

   Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech—March 5, 1946

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9. www.nationalww2museum.org › war › articlesWinston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech—March 5, 1946

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   It not only made the term “iron curtain” a household phrase, but it coined the term “special relationship,” describing enduring alliance between the United States and Great Britain. It is a speech that offered a blueprint for the west to ultimately wage—and win—the Cold War.