Ironcurtain speech

Question 1

who?

Answer 1

churchill

Question 2

when?

Answer 2

march 1946

Question 3

what?

Answer 3

• churchill gives speech with Truman behind him

- warns about new danger to Europe

Question 4

basis?

Answer 4

• refers to Soviet Dominated Communist governments being set up in eastern europe (hungayr, romania, poland, bulgaria)
• hopes Yalta will allow for free and democratic elections
• remarks that Red Army has ‘liberated’ those countries from Germany but that they had a cloak of secrecy over EE

Question 5

Soviet reaction to speech

Answer 5

• quick + outraged
• stalin compares churchill to hitler; says speech was racist and call for war

1. withdraws from international monetary fund
2. step up tone and intensity of anti-western propaganda
3. intiate 5-year plan of self strenghtening