A tidal wave of destruction swept across Europe from 1939 to 1945. With Hitler in its wake, a surge of Nazi German invasions reeked havoc as World War II played out across the continent. With the threat of this unrelenting force, an unlikely alliance was born: The Grand Alliance. Great Britain, the United States of America, and the Soviet Union all put their former disagreements behind them and banded together to suppress Hitler and his devotees. The Second World War merely acted as a Band-Aid to patch together this old feud in order to defeat a common enemy. As Great Britain and the United States are both important democratic centers, it took a matter of months for the Soviet Union to show its true red communist colors following the war.
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Churchill had always been in favor of the unity of English speaking countries, which made him jump at president Truman’s invitation to speak in Fulton. In the late months of 1945 a letter was written by Churchill to Truman explaining his speech intentions, “I have a message to deliver to your country and to the world and I think it very likely that we shall be in full agreement about it.” He used this forum in order to tell the world about the “bear that walks like a man” and about the menacing threat that communism holds. His speech at the Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri was titled originally as “The Sinews of Peace”. The title transformed into “The Iron Curtain Speech” after he said aloud,
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from
Churchill had always been in favor of the unity of English speaking countries, which made him jump at president Truman’s invitation to speak in Fulton. In the late months of 1945 a letter was written by Churchill to Truman explaining his speech intentions, “I have a message to deliver to your country and to the world and I think it very likely that we shall be in full agreement about it.” He used this forum in order to tell the world about the “bear that walks like a man” and about the menacing threat that communism holds. His speech at the Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri was titled originally as “The Sinews of Peace”. The title transformed into “The Iron Curtain Speech” after he said aloud,
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from