kennan's long telegram and churchill's iron curtain speech

Question 1

when did kennan write the long telegram?

Answer 1

22nd feburary 1946

Question 2

why did kennan write the telegram?

Answer 2

to offer a historical analysis on the motives of soviet foreign policy

Question 3

what did kennan argue was the reason for marxist-lenninsm taken root in russia?

Answer 3

because it taught that commnunist state can not co-exist with capitalist ones

Question 4

how did kennan view the soviet union?

Answer 4

as inevitable expansionist and inhostile towards the west

Question 5

what policies did kennan argue the usa was faced with?

Answer 5

it could either retreat into isolationism or it could protect its power on the global scale

Question 6

what did kennan say the usa must be prepared to do?

Answer 6

threaten the use of force and ensure unity with its allies and adopt a proactive role in europe

Question 7

when was churchll’s iron curtain speech?

Answer 7

6th march 1946

Question 8

what did churchill say the only way to deal with the soviet union was?

Answer 8

to be firm with negotiations and britian and america must learn from the lessons of appeasement in the 1930s

Question 9

how did stalin see churchill’s speech?

Answer 9

as a deliberate provocative and accused churchill of being a warmonger