![]() ![]() It appeared that the way the Democratic West and Communist East viewed one another had been changed irrevocably. Stalin responded to Churchill’s words by calling it a “dangerous act” and even comparing Churchill and his American friends to Hitler in an interview with Pravda ( “Stalin on Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech”). This is often seen as the actual start to the Cold War. In 1946, Winston Churchill (one such former ally) gave his famous Iron Curtain speech, which included the well-known line “from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent” ( Iron Curtain Speech). Because the Cold War was not always a literal war fought on the battlefield, I have always wondered what actually sparked it.Īs the Freeze text states, “the bonds of the Grand Alliance predictably weakened in the aftermath of the war…the deteriorating relationship between the Soviet Union and its former allies soon gave way to the overt hostility of the Cold War” (Freeze 398). The Cold War began in the aftermath of World War II as an “ideological, political, economic, military, and cultural” struggle for power between East and West ( Seventeen Moments). ![]()
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