A War of Words
Essential Questions
1. What was the “Iron Curtain”?
2. Why did Churchill and Truman hate
the “Iron Curtain”?
3. What did the Secret Telegrams reveal
about the aims of the USA and USSR?
Context: The End of WWII
1) How many deaths did the USSR suffer during WWII? __________________________
2) What did the USSR want to create to protect them?
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3) Where did Stalin want to take over? ________________________________________________
4) What was the name of the agreement between Churchill and Stalin?
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5) What did this agreement say?
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6) What is a "Sphere of Influence"?
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The Iron Curtain
1) Where did Winston Churchill make his speech in March 1946?
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2) Fill in the missing words of the Speech
“From Stettin in the ________________ to Trieste in the Adriatic, an _______________
________________ has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the
capitals of the ancient states of ________________ and _______________ Europe:
Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia. All
these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the
Soviet _____________________ , and all are subject in one form or another, not only
to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in some cases, increasing measure of
control from ____________________.“
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3) Write a summary of what Winston Churchill was saying about the Iron Curtain.
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The Long Telegram - George Kennan
1) Who asked for a report to be written on what the USSR was thinking?
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2) What were George Kennan’s own personal political views?
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3) Write notes on the Key points of the Long Telegram
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Novikov Telegram
1) When was the Novikov Telegram released? ____________________________________
2) Write a summary of the main points of the Novikov Telegram
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I understand this topic:
GREEN: Very well
Summary:
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YELLOW: Somewhat
RED: Not at all
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(Colour in as appropriate.)
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