{"id":3710,"date":"2016-03-08T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2016-01-05T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T09:07:13","slug":"churchills-iron-curtain-speech-did-it-create-accelerate-or-merely-acknowledge-the-onset-of-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/churchills-iron-curtain-speech-did-it-create-accelerate-or-merely-acknowledge-the-onset-of-the-cold-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Churchill&#8217;s Iron Curtain Speech: Did it create, accelerate or merely acknowledge the onset of the Cold War?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/ib\/cold_war_origins\/2_WHO-Churchill_Stalin_Truman\/1_Churchill-Iron_Curtain\/01b_Iron_Curtain.doc\">Churchill&#8217;s Iron Curtain Speech: Did it create, accelerate or merely acknowledge the onset of the Cold War?<\/a><br \/>\nIn March 1946, Churchill gave a famous speech before President Truman at Fulton, Missouri. By this time there were communist governments in Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. He used the phrase &#8220;Iron Curtain&#8221; to describe the European border between the Democracies of the West and the Communist-controlled countries of the East. He accused the USSR of being an aggressive dictatorship and called for an alliance between Britain and the USA to keep it under control.<br \/>\nAs an extension activity, students consider the role played by the Kennan Telegram in the onset of the Cold War, and analyse cartoons about the Iron Curtain speech from both a Soviet and a Western perspective.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/IB\/cold_war\/\">Part of the new Roots of the Cold War to 1949 unit at ActiveHistory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churchill&#8217;s Iron Curtain Speech: Did it create, accelerate or merely acknowledge the onset of the Cold War? In March 1946, Churchill gave a famous speech before President Truman at Fulton, Missouri. By this time there were communist governments in Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. He used the phrase &#8220;Iron Curtain&#8221; to describe the European&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/churchills-iron-curtain-speech-did-it-create-accelerate-or-merely-acknowledge-the-onset-of-the-cold-war\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[459,460,455,414,242,457,456,461,458,396],"class_list":["post-3710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-igcse-gcse-history","tag-accelerate","tag-acknowledge","tag-churchills","tag-cold","tag-create","tag-curtain","tag-iron","tag-onset","tag-speech","tag-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3016,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/origins-of-the-cold-war-c-1945-61\/","url_meta":{"origin":3710,"position":0},"title":"Origins of the Cold War, c.1945-61","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"April 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"If the Origins of the Cold War have not already been studied using the detailed unit at ActiveHistory, the following provides an efficient, effective overview. 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