Winston Churchill thought the Cold War required a three-part strategy: Military Strength - to balance the Soviet armies in the face of allies that were demobilizing after World War II. Dialogue with Russia - to prevent antagonism from becoming war, particularly nuclear war.

2025年2月26日 · Winston Churchill delivered the Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946. In it he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” across Europe.

5 天之前 · Winston Churchill’s speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, stands as one of the most significant addresses of the early Cold War. In this speech—formally titled The Sinews of Peace but better known for coining the phrase “Iron Curtain”—Churchill articulated the ideological and geopolitical divisions that ...

Churchill’s famed “Iron Curtain” speech ushered in the Cold War and made the term a household phrase. Top image courtesy of America’s National Churchill Museum. The dying embers of World War II still cast a shadow long over the postwar world when Winston Churchill arrived in the small Midwestern town of Fulton, Missouri in the spring of 1946.

2010年3月2日 · In one of the most famous orations of the Cold War period, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill condemns the Soviet Union’s policies in Europe and declares, “From Stettin in the...

Russian historians date the beginning of the Cold War from this speech. In its phraseology, in its intricate drawing together of several themes to an electrifying climax- this speech may be regarded as a technical classic.

Extracts from Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech given in the USA in March 1946 (Catalogue ref: FO 371/51624) Transcript. BRITISH INFORMATION SERVICES. AN AGENCY OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT. ADVANCE...

Churchill thus actively sought the role of Cold War peacemaker to enable his country to be a mediator betweem East and West in the Cold War and achieve a rapprochement, guaranteed by Britain, between the Soviet Union and a reunited but neutral Germany.

2018年7月6日 · Historians still argue over the effect of Churchill’s Fulton speech. Could the Cold War have been avoided without his intervention?

In the popular perception, Winston Churchill is widely regarded as the original Cold Warrior – the man who popularized the term ‘iron curtain’ in 1946 and urged firm resistance to the Soviet Union in Europe and elsewhere.