What effect did churchill and stalins speechs have on the 1946 public amrivan opinikn?

Answer 1

Stalin's speech at the Bolshoi Ballet in February 1946 praised his country and suggested that Soviet citizens should be prepared for years of hardship because the future, as he saw it, would produce conflicts for the claim of world resources. This sounded alarms in Washington and London. A month after Stalin's words, Winston Churchill coined the phrase, "The iron curtain," regarding the aggressive land expansion of the Soviet Union. While this was not a bombshell speech in the West, Soviet historians universally date the start of the cold war from the date of Churchill's speech.

Answer 2

A Treasury Department request for opinion regarding Soviet policy, George F. ... mentality became the basis for American foreign policy toward the USSR. ... Fulton, Missouri, Churchill gave a speech titled, "The Sinews of Peace'.