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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
"Iron Curtain" Speech (Winston Churchill)
This is one of the more famous speeches of the 20th century. Churchill delivered this speech on March 6th, 1946, at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He was one of the first to recognize the new threat that was the Soviet Union. The Cold War would last for another 45 years ending in 1991. When you hear the cities he lists, see how many you can place in the proper country. Your 6th grade geography teachers would be happy to see you use what you learned last year.
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I think Winston Churchill was a good speaker and that this speech was pretty good. It is interesting and it was well presented including the reasons for the Iron Curtain.
FF 6
Winston Churchill seems like a smart man. He was the only one who could sense the possibilty of the Soviet's power at the time. If he hadn't made that speech, who knows what could have unexpectedly happened? This is a great speech, and as Mr. Brown said, one of the most famous and best speeches of the 20st century.
-FW1
This wasn't the best time to make a speech like that. You had just finished a war, Russia (USSR) was your allies and you go and say a bad thing about them? We know Russia was getting more powerful, why would Churchill make a speech like that.
Churchill could foresee trouble. When Neville Chamberlin was Prime Minister Churchill warned of Hitler becoming more powerful. No one believed him because Hitler and Chamberlin had talked about peace and it seemed the countries were content with their position at the time. Yet, as time went on, it was clear that Hitler was intent on dominating Europe.
BP1
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