Stalin warns that capitalism and imperialism make future wars inevitable. George Kennan analvzes the Soviet Union’s intentions in an eight thousand -word prophecy that the Soviet Union would
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Stalin warns that capitalism and imperialism make future wars inevitable. George Kennan analvzes the Soviet Union’s intentions in an eight thousand -word prophecy that the Soviet Union would seek to extend its influence throughout the world, and must be contained. Days later, Winston Churchill delivers his “Iron Curtain” speech to a college audience in Fulton, Missouri.
According to the video, what were the various interpretations of Stalin’s Bolshoi Theater speech in 1946?
Who was George Kennan and what was his perspective on Soviet intentions? On what did he base his recommendations for a U.S. response?
Use the map to follow Churchill’s Fulton, Missouri, speech. What “facts” does Churchill tell his audience? Why did Truman think that the American public was not ready for this speech?
According to Robert Tucker, what was the Soviet response to the “Iron Curtain” speech?
The metaphor Iron Curtain is defined by
Random House as “a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information created by the hostility of one country toward another.” Compose a poem or short story or a visual representation entitled The Day the Iron Curtain
Descended on Our Town.
Conflicts between the Soviet Union on one hand and the United States and Britain on the other arise in Turkey and Iran. Stalin tries to gain a military presence in both countries but the Western allies seek to keep both free from Soviet influence. In a report to President Truman, Clark Clifford and George Elsey conclude that the Soviet Union “constitutes a real menace to freedom in this world,” but that “a war with the USSR would be more total, more horrible, than anything previously known.”
Have students locate Turkey, the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Why were the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union interested in this territory?
Why did a conflict arise in Turkey?
According to the video, what effect did the Soviet actions have on Truman and the American government? How did that response translate into action?
Segment Six
Secretary of State James Byrnes tells the people of Stuttgart, Germany, that Americans want to “help the German people win their way back to an honorable place among the free and peace-loving nations of the world.” The economies of the Soviet Union, Germany and the rest of Europe are getting worse. In Britain, the coal industry is unable to meet the demand and unemployment rises to 6 million. Britain stops giving aid to Greece and Turkey. To help avert a communist takeover in Greece and Turkey, President Truman announces that the United States will contain the advance of communism.
When meeting at the Paris Conference in July of 1946, on what points did Molotov and Byrnes disagree in regard to Germany?
How do students interpret the archive narration of Byrnes’s speech in Stuttgart, Germany? What evidence can students find that supports the video’s assertion that “it was at Paris that the wartime alliance began to finally break up”?
How do eyewitnesses describe life in the Soviet
Union immediately after the war?
What do students think General Lucius Clay meant when he said, “There is no choice between being a communist on 1,500 calories a day and a believer in democracy on a thousand”?
Why did Great Britain withdraw aid from Greece and Turkey? How did the U.S. respond?
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