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The Cold War: Discussing the Speech of President Kennedy in 1963

By Eileen Frawley, Notre Dame School, New York, NY

Introduction

The cold war is the term for the rivalry between the two blocs of contending states that emerged following the Second World War. It was a series of confrontations played out on the world stage between the non-Communist states, led by the United States and Great Britain, and the Communists, led by the Soviet Union. In 1946 the former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, gave a speech in Missouri foreshawdowing the divide between...