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<strong>HIST</strong> <strong>410N</strong> <strong>Week</strong> 5 <strong>Case</strong> <strong>Study</strong> <strong>Latest</strong><br />
<strong>Case</strong> <strong>Study</strong>: Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech<br />
There are many ways to get a feel for the events of the 20th Century. One way is through the analysis of<br />
primary source documents. Few documents set the stage for the second half than Winston Churchill’s<br />
1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri. Officially entitled “The Sinews of Peace”, it came to be known as “The<br />
Iron Curtain Speech”, in which Churchill laid out the challenges for the West in general, and the US and<br />
Britain in particular, regarding what would soon be known as the Cold War. Your assignment this week is<br />
to not just read Churchill’s speech, but read between the lines to answer the following questions in a well<br />
written 2-3 page document:<br />
1. Churchill believes the Soviet Union “desires the fruits of war and the indefinite expansion of their power<br />
and doctrines.” How might those expansionist desires challenge the Western principle of national political<br />
self determination, a cause it championed during World War 2?<br />
2. Churchill’s speech acknowledges “Russia’s need to be secure on her western borders,” but at the<br />
same time it raises concerns about Soviet actions in Eastern Europe. Is Churchill being inconsistent? Or<br />
does he provide concrete justifications for those concerns?<br />
3. In his speech, Churchill asserts “There is nothing they (the Russians) admire so much as strength, and<br />
nothing for which they have less respect for than military weakness.” If he isn’t advocating a direct military<br />
confrontation with the Soviet Union, then what is he saying?<br />
4. Churchill delivered this speech to an American audience, but after reading it one might conclude it<br />
could have been given in any western country. Why did he pick the US?