Index: Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, 1946

Read the articles at the following URLs. Test your knowledge by answering the questions below.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-iron.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/04/documents/x.html

Questions

1. Are Churchill and Kennan in general agreement about the nature and scope of the Soviet threat, and how to meet it?

2. What is the "iron curtain" and how does Churchill propose to deal with it?

3. What does Kennan see as the motivational forces behind Soviet foreign policy?

4. What is the containment policy proposed by Kennan? Upon what presumptions is it based?

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