Churchill's iron curtain speech

Question 1

When did the iron curtain speech take place?

Answer 1

-6 March 1946

Question 2

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

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What was the iron curtain speech?

Answer 3

-A direct attack on soviet policies
-Turning point which convinced Stalin that the USA were in a plot with Britain to carry out an anti-Soviet ideological assault

Question 4

What is the iron curtain?

Answer 4

-A metaphorical barrier between the east and west
-is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
-The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II.

Question 5

What were relations between the superpowers at the time?

Answer 5

-Tensions began to increase
-Relations with the USSR were uneasy- USA saw the Soviets actions as attempts at expanding their communist sphere of influence

Question 6

What was Stalin’s reactions to the speech?

Answer 6

-Stalin described his speech as a “call to war with the soviet union”

Question 7

Consequences of the speech

Answer 7

-USSR abandoned the Declaration on Liberated Europe agreed on at Yalta in 1945
-Crystallised the beginning of the Cold War as their ideological differences was far too strong