One of the first points was Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech. Delivered with President Truman seated behind him, Churchill used his famous phrase. It worked brilliantly as a metaphor combining with Churchill's alarming tone as well as the former Prime Minister's ability to captivate an audience and led to a change, almost overnight, in opinion.22 Truman also followed with his own speech talking of "perilous times" showing a seemingly unified opinion between the two, and thereby a seemingly unified opinion between the two nations against the Soviet Union. ...

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The need for a new world governing body was realized in 1941 when Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. ... These were fought over in Great Britain because their country was weak, and they thought Churchill was being stubborn in trying to maintain their worldly influence. ...

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Sitting on the swings at an elementary playground, one may witness a group of boys take another boy's lunch money. Many moral ideas come to mind, but does one actually think that the single boy will be able to ask the group for his money back? Will the victim be able to say "Stop please, let's be friends," and propose that they eat at the same lunch table? The groups of boys represent a strong threat, similar Iraq's possession of nuclear weaponry, being a threat to national security. A realist would suggest that the boy would be able to gain respect from the group if he sh...

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Winston Churchill himself said it best: "The stone age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. ... Prime Minister Winston Churchill both realized that even the most powerful nations could no longer feel their future was secure. ...

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The dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was "a terrible thing, but it had to be done" (Holmes 2). Why did it have to be done? What could possibly make killing 200,000 Japanese citizens alright? It seems like a terrible thing, but it was necessary in order to bring back peace to the world at the smallest cost possible. Many events and reasons are behind the United States' decision to use atomic force, and once read about, they will begin to stack up. ...

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In March of 1946, Winston Churchill, Britain's Prime Minister, gave a speech which stated: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. ...

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