Iron Curtain Speech Analysis

America is a great nation that is built upon freedom and its ever-growing need to build alliances with other countries. These alliances are set forth through trade of needed resources and goals of economic prosperity for both parties. Even though America tries to keep conflict at bay, these alliances guarantee added protection for when any clash occurs. America has been involved in many wars. Some unintentional, but Americas’ greatest fears were exposed during the uprising of the Cold War…fear of communism invading their beloved “land of the free.”

America and the Soviet Union were victorious in the ending of World War 2 and in America’s hopes they would remain friendly after the war. However, this did not occur. Tensions began to stir with
and the soviets, was named the “Iron Curtain” made by Winston Churchill who was former wartime prime minister of Britain. This speech descended across Europe, separating the free west from the communist east and further divided the two groups. The Truman Doctrine of 1947 stated that the Cold War should be embraced because it was the symbol for a long struggle for the future of freedom. The idea arised through the issues of Britain’s economy shattering from having to stop helping two crucial governments-Greece and Turkey. These two areas were invaded by the soviets, through threat by a communist led rebellion and taking over control of the straits connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean (Deighton 1993). With this placing a great stress over Britains’ economy, Britain went to the U.S. for help. Truman went straight to the public to rally up and raise arms to prepare for war, using fear of communism invading America as motivation to help contain communism. Americas true fear of a communism taking over increased when economic chaos strengthened communist parties in France and Italy during the time of Europe’s economic downfall. The Marshall Plan of 1947 devised a plan to provide financial aid to Europe for recovery, where inflation was rampant and food shortages were prevalent. George Marshalls’ plan was aimed to fight against the perspective that capitalism was declining and the wave of communism
While the Soviets assumed control of parts of German and Berlin and cut of American, British, and French access to Berlin and Germany in both road and railroads, America came up with an eleven month airlift to provide food and fuel to these zones, Stalin then lifted the blockade which was a huge victory to the Truman administration. The soviets then caused a huge stir when they tested their first atomic bomb in 1949. The U.S., Canada, and ten other western European nations came together and created NATO, pledging mutual defense against any future attacks from the Soviet Union. Later, the Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact of 1955 which only seemed to assure the U.S. that that soviets weren’t ready to back down just yet. A major setback for containment occurred with the soviets winning the Chinese Civil War and turning china into a communist lead nation. With this setback, the National Security Council, also known as the NSC-68, called for a military build-up to sanction the U.S. in pursuing a global movement against slavery once and for all. This was now known as “the survival of the free world” and things had to change (Fleming