What was the two key points of Winston Churchill's iron curtain speech?

Answer 1

Another possible answer is that it hardened the USA people's opinion on USSR 's behavior of expansionist. A supporting evidence is that opinion polled showed that 35% people trusted USSR in 1946. This is to be compared 55% in 1945. Thus this further influenced the containment policy by Harry Truman

• Another notes - the phrase "iron curtain" is immature during 1946. Stalin was still pursuing a differentiated policy in Eastern Europe.

AnswerHe had a fear of another world war that involves fighting against the communist regime and that the so called iron curtain is blocking some of the countries connection to the western countries because of the communist terror.

Answer 2

Delivered on March 5, 1946 at Westminster College Fulton, Missouri, Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech outlined Soviet communism's threat to the free world and called for firm and principled resistance. The two key points of his speech are:

to promote a strengthened Anglo-American alliance

to promote a firmer western front against the Soviet Union

Answer 3

In March 1946, Churchhill said in his speech "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." This referred, in part, to the developing Cold War with the Soviet Union.

Answer 4

Was made at Westminster College in Fulton Missouri on 5 March 1946.