Throughout the “Cold War”, the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe. Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" address on March 5, 1946, at Westminster College, helped popularize the term “iron curtain” across the world. This module is intended to allow student’s to analyze Churchill’s speech and determine what he believed was the dividing ideological and physical boundaries that separated a post-WWII Europe.
This module is designed for a deep dive into a seminal text of the twentieth century. It is organized to take roughly eight classroom hours or ten fifty-minute periods. It was created in the Summer 2013 Social Studies Design Jam, and is shared with special thanks to the Kentucky Education Association for the use of their Lexington facilities.
