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notes: winston churchill, \sinews of peace,\ speech delivered at westminster college in fulton, missouri, march 5, 1946.
winston churchill served as prime - minister of great britain from 1940 to 1945 and led his nation to victory in world war ii. he was a hero both in britain and in america. in the winter of 1946, churchill accepted an invitation to speak at a small college in missouri. president harry truman lent weight to the invitation by attending and giving churchill a warm introduction. now known as the \iron curtain\ address, it is one of the most famous speeches of the twentieth century.
a shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the allied victory. nobody knows what soviet russia and its communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive...tendencies. i have a strong admiration and regard for the valiant russian people and for my wartime comrade, marshal stalin. there is deep sympathy and goodwill in britain - and i doubt not here also - towards the peoples of all the russias.... it is my duty however,... to place before you certain facts about the present position in europe.
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 moscow.... the communist parties, which were very small in all these eastern states of europe, have been raised to pre - eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian* control.... whatever conclusions may be drawn from these facts - and facts they are - this is certainly not the liberated europe we fought to build up.
*totalitarian: political system of total government control; sometimes called dictatorship or autocracy
document analysis

1. who was winston churchill?
2. to what allied victory does churchill refer?
3. churchill says that a shadow has fallen across that victory. what nation is casting that shadow?
4. churchill also says \an iron curtain\ has descended across europe. what famous capital cities are sealed off from the west by this \iron curtain\?
5. according to churchill, what caused the cold war?

Explanation:

1. Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 - 1945, leading the nation during World War II.
2. He refers to the Allied victory over Nazi - Germany in World War II.
3. The nation casting the shadow is Soviet Russia.
4. Famous capital cities sealed off include Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, and Sofia.
5. According to Churchill, the expansionist tendencies of Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization, along with the establishment of totalitarian control in Eastern Europe, caused the Cold War.

Answer:

1. Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1940 - 1945.
2. Allied victory over Nazi - Germany in World War II.
3. Soviet Russia.
4. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia.
5. Expansionist tendencies of Soviet Russia and Communist control in Eastern Europe.