Churchill Essays

Jan Almasy Dr. Butler ENG 234 2 May 2012 “If We Must Die” and the World of a Peacetime Veteran The poem “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay is a poem that can be widely interpreted by many different audiences. In the view of an African American, the poem …

They became suspicious of each other because they had different beliefs; the USSR was a Communist country, ruled by Josef Stalin, a cruel dictator, who didn’t really care too much for human rights – of the world or his own people! Whereas the USA had a capitalist democracy which considered …

Winston Churchill was a statesman, not a politician. As President John Adams once said that a politician fears man, but a statesman fears God. Winston Churchill demonstrated statesmanship. He feared not what the people thought of what he believed but that he would be held responsible before God if he …

Following WWII, a rivalry between the western democracies and Communist Soviet Union escalated to which is now known as the Cold War. On March 5, 1946, Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain delivered a speech at Westminister College in Fulton Missouri known as the “Iron Curtain”. In his speech, he …