Cold War Speech

The cold war took place during the years 1945 and 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is known as the cold war because it never turned “hot,” which means that there was never any actual fighting between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. During these years, many important things happened, many things were invented, and World War III almost happened on many different occasions. On March 5, 1946, Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech which, essentially, kick-started the Cold War.1 While he was delivering his speech, he kept praising the United States, almost like he was buttering them up for something. It was clear that the main purpose of this speech was to try to form a closer bond with the United States. He spoke of a iron curtain that had fallen between Eastern Europe and the rest of the world. The phrase “iron curtain” would soon become very popular when discussing the cold war.
During the cold war espionage was running rampant. Espionage is the process of gathering information about a rival or an enemy, usually through secret operations. Both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had spies that they used to gain information of how the other was fairing. …show more content…
Because Eisenhower was so frightened that a nuclear war could break out at any given moment, he devised a system of highways to not only make it easier for the evacuation of major cities, but it would also allow the army to mobilize more quickly and more efficiently.8 The National Interstate and Highway Act of 1956 became the largest public works project in the nation. The cold war made Eisenhower suspicious and caused him to want to reform our education systems a little more than what they were. He especially focused on the science and the mathematical portion of the reform, in order to excite them about space and to make them want to work for NASA so that they had more fresh minds, in order to beat the Soviet Union into