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What Is The Purpose Of Winston Churchill's Speech

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Winston Churchill was one of those influential and strong leaders in the last century known for his speeches during war times, he was the prime minister of Great Britain from 1940 up until 1945. Winston was one of those leaders mentioned in history for having a role during the cold war. The cold war occurred after the Second World War, it was between the eastern and the western sides of Europe. A period of political and military tension that took place among the powers of the communist USSR and the democratic USA, where by each tried to reduce the power of the other and therefore this conflict was known as the cold war. Winston Churchill believed in neither communism nor capitalism thus he was one of the very first leaders to raise the idea …show more content…

Another thing he mentioned in his speech was the United States power and how he believed in joining them to limit the powers of the Soviet Union was a smart idea as it would bring them closer and thus improve their relationship together. Therefore through his speech he aimed at not only increasing and improving Great Britain’s power and relations but also limiting the powers of the Soviets lead by Stalin. Churchill first started praising the United States in his speech in which he said that it stood at the pinnacle of the world power according to ("Winston Churchill Delivers"), and the purpose of why he was praising the united states was shown as he continued giving the speech it was by then clear that he was arguing for a closer and special relationship between the united states and great Britain in organizing a postwar world according to …show more content…

Through this speech we see that Winston Churchill was supporting the west and he’s against the idea of communism to spread. I personally believe that the soviet unions were only trying to protect their selves from attacks of the western side and so they created a union of protection in which others saw it as a wall that separated them from the rest of Europe. The soviets may have took too much control but then it wasn’t as much as they were blamed for, and true that Churchill’s speech affected the nations beliefs but then none of those sides can be fully blamed for the cold war as each of them caused a part of the cold war. At the end the results of it were in no one’s favor as it brought nothing but harm, disagreement, and

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