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IN THE POST - SECOND WORLD WAR PERIODDate: 2015-10-07; view: 356. GREAT BRITAIN, THE USA AND AUSTRALIA Page 53 Page 52 Did I ever tell you? Page 53 Page 52 Did I ever tell you?
a ride b was c hitch-hiking d went e police f stopped g important h suppose a We had a good time, but it did cost a fortune! b He got the job, but he did have to marry the boss's daughter! c We got there in the end, but we did sit on a bus all day. d I got a good job, but I did have to leave the country to find one. e She made a success of her/the business, but her husband did leave her. f He sold more than anyone else, but he did have a heart attack.
a ride b was c hitch-hiking d went e police f stopped g important h suppose a We had a good time, but it did cost a fortune! b He got the job, but he did have to marry the boss's daughter! c We got there in the end, but we did sit on a bus all day. d I got a good job, but I did have to leave the country to find one. e She made a success of her/the business, but her husband did leave her. f He sold more than anyone else, but he did have a heart attack. LIST OF WORDS to stockpile weapons to deploy weapons to launch a first-strike long / medium/ short-range missile “iron curtain” aftermath weapons offensive weapons defensive weapons conventional weapons weapons of mass destruction “brinkmanship” détente policy of containment to contain arms race Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) grave / serious / inevitable consequences to gain / win independence / sovereignty to declare / recognize independence to strengthen peace to have common interests peaceful coexistence to reduce / relax / relieve / ease international tension disarmament conference total disarmament general / universal / nuclear disarmament general and complete disarmament multilateral / unilateral / partial disarmament to misuse powers to supersede growth in prosperity to dominate world trade ambivalent rapid the G7 to boost to outstrip in comparative terms to lag behind to overtake to strengthen the economy living standards loose monetary policy public debt mortgage crisis instrumental to encourage savings advanced to heed to recover from a recession TEXT 1. Read the text and explain the essence of the metaphoric notions “cold war” "iron curtain" and “warmongering”. At the end of World War II, English author and journalist George Orwell used the term Cold War in the essay “You and the Atomic Bomb” published October 19, 1945, in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear war, he warned of a “peace that is no peace”, which he called a permanent “cold war”, Orwell directly referred to that war as the ideological confrontation between the Soviet Union and the Western powers. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri. The speech called for an Anglo-American alliance against the Soviets, whom he accused of establishing an "iron curtain" from the Baltic to the Adriatic". The concept of the Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. On either side of the Iron Curtain, states developed their own international economic and military alliances: § The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the military Warsaw Pact on the east side, with the Soviet Union as most important member of each § The European Community and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the west and south, with the USA as the area's military powerhouse. Physically, the Iron Curtain took the shape of border defenses between the countries of Western and Eastern Europe, most notably the Berlin Wall, which served as a longtime symbol of the Curtain as a whole. Much of the Western public still regarded the Soviet Union as a close ally in the context of the recent defeat of Nazi Germany and of Japan. Many saw Churchill's speech as warmongering and unnecessary. Although not well received at the time, the phrase "iron curtain" gained popularity as a short-hand reference to the division of Europe as the Cold War strengthened. The Iron Curtain served to keep people in and information out, and people eventually came to accept and use the metaphor.
TEXT 2. Read the text and fulfill the task that follows it.
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