Unit 9 SAQ 9.3 AMSCO AP European History - Withrow
Use the passage below to answer all parts of the question that follows.
"From Stettin [a German-Polish city] in the Baltic to Trieste (a city in Italy] 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 many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow. Athens alone-Greece with its immortal glories-is free to decide its future at an election under British, American and French observation.
The Russian-dominated Polish Government has been encouraged to make enormous and wrongful inroads upon Germany, and mass expulsions of millions of Germans on a scale grievous and undreamed-of are now taking place. The Communist parties, which were very small in all these Eastern States of Europe, have been raised to pre-eminence and power far beyond their numbers and are seeking everywhere to obtain totalitarian control.
Police governments are prevailing in nearly every case, and so far, except in Czechoslovakia, there is no true democracy."
-Winston Churchill, "Iron Curtain" speech, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, March 5, 1946
Question 1
Describe the historical process behind Churchill speech.
Question 2
Explain ONE piece of evidence not mentioned in the passage that could be used to support Churchill's argument in the passage.
Question 3
Explain ONE piece of evidence not mentioned in the passage that could be used to refute Churchill's argument in the passage.
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