{"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":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[459,460,455,414,242,457,456,461,458,396],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-XQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}