HIS 1111 Lecture 2: Dissolution of the Grand Alliance
15 Mar 2016
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Ater defeaing hitler, the grand alliance broke apart in biter sniping. West charged stalin with violaing the yalta accord. This sense of betrayal was most eloquently ariculated by winston churchill in his 1946 iron curtain speech. In fulton, missouri, churchill drew popular atenion to soviet acions in eastern. Churchill invoked a sharp contrast between totalitarian tyranny and liberal democracy. Although no longer in oice, churchill"s speech carried immense weight as the prophet who had astutely predicted the danger of fascist appeasement. Now churchill tried to rouse americans to confront communism. Iniially, his speech confused and discomited the american public focused mostly on domesic issues and accustomed to seeing the soviet union as an ally against. Ulimately churchill"s invocaion of the iron curtain" as a dark shadow creeping over europe and snuing out the light of civilizaion provided ordinary. Americans with a metaphor to conceptualize the communist threat. Stalin"s response to churchill"s speech was recorded in the bolshevik newspaper pravda.
