Presentation Name

david.theobald
By David
Theobald
DIVIDED EUROPE
Purpose of this Powerpoint
The purpose of this powerpoint is to educate the students on not only about Modern History and the Cold War, but to also educate the students on how to deconstruct and critically analyse  a Historical piece of evidence like this cartoon.
‘A PEEP UNDER THE IRON CURTAIN’
"Iron Curtain" is a term used to describe the boundary that
separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries
from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The
Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division
that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War
II. To the east of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were
connected to or influenced by the former Soviet Union. This
included part of Germany (East Germany), Czechoslovakia,
Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and
Albania
THE TERM IRON CURTAIN
EUROPE DIVIDED
This is an anti-Soviet propaganda cartoon, supporting Churchill’s
call for a stand against the Soviet Union, by playing to people’s
fears.
This
cartoon - ‘A peep under the
Iron curtain
' - by the
British
cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth. It
was published in the Daily
Mail on 6th
March
1946. The cartoon was created the
day after
Churchill's Fulton
speech
.
The Daily Mail was a right-wing newspaper very opposed to the
Soviet Union and communism.
The
Fulton
speech was delivered
Nine months after Sir Winston
Churchill failed to be
re-elected
as Britain's Prime
Minister.
Churchill travelled
by train with President Harry Truman to make
the
speech. On March 5, 1946, at the request of Westminster College in
the small Missouri town of Fulton (population of 7,000), Churchill
gave his now famous "Iron Curtain" speech to a crowd of 40,000.
ABOUT THE CARTOON
“From
Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "Iron
Curtain" has descended across the continent. Behind that line
lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern
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
sphere, 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
Moscow”.
-Winston Churchill
March 5
th
1946
CHURCHILL'S SPEECH
There are several connotations throughout the cartoon which
give significance to this famous picture
INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CARTOON
Iron is hard and the material of war. A curtain is both a divider and
a screen to hide what you are doing.
Stalin had created a ‘iron curtain’ an impenetrable barrier and the
public was not aware of what was going behind this curtain until
Churchill warned them.
The ‘E’ in Europe is covered by the iron wall. This can be interpreted
in the cartoon that Europe is divided.
THE IRON CURTAIN
Churchill is drawn in the cartoon with a cigar. It could suggest
that now when he was not re-elected he had more freedom to
do so and openly warn the public about Stalin.
Churchill is peeping in the picture which can be interpreted as
being brave and gives the public an insight on what may be
really happening under Stalin's leadership.
THE MAN WITH CIGAR
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