The iron curtain - some questions on political cartoons?

Question

For my history homework, i have to compare the messages of two cartoons on the Iron Curtain, but i have no idea what the messages are... so please help me!

the first cartoon is the much-famed 'a peep under the iron curtain' where there is literally a physical iron curtain in the middle of europe. this iron curtain is labelled 'No admittance' 'by order joe' and churchill is crouching on the floor, trying to peep through it.

The second cartoon is a country ( i don't know which particular country it is... i does seem a bit like the USA though) lined with canons and other weapons, and inside the country it says 'homeland security.' the cartoon is labelled "and so, an ironic curtain has descended across the continent"

could someone please tell me the messages of the two cartoons, how they are similar and how they are different? the more detail the better...

THANKS!

Answer 1

you should try to do you own how work, but I will give you a little push in a good direction. =)

Churchill represents democracy trying to sneak under the "wall" that the soviets had placed around eastern Europe to keep democracy out of their rule.

the other represents the "wall" the US placed on its self as a way to "protect" it's democracy from out side forces.

of course that's just one interpretation.

best of luck

Answer 2

Iron Curtain Political Cartoon

Answer 3

I'll give it a shot. Joe, of course, was Joseph Stalin, leader of the USSR during WW2. The cartoon symbolizes the boundary set up by the USSR at the end of the war as they laid claim to most of eastern Europe. As hard as it was to get out, it was almost as hard to get in.

The second, assuming it is the US suggests that we have put up our own iron curtain in the form of Homeland Security to keep others out (if only that were true).

The difference is that the Soviet Union actually did use the military to keep isolated from Western Europe. They regularly shot people trying to cross the borders illegally. In the US however, we don't use the military to kill people crossing the border. The USSR had a system of border control that worked quite well for them for many years (they imploded because of lack of Capitolism more than anything else). As to the US view on border defense, being in actuality only a token resistance, it remains to be seen if we will survive as the idealistic nation we started as.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

Answer 4

that is a stupid comic strip, so bypass with even with you come back up with. that's about as "humorous" as a comic strip of an same guy wearing an Obama campaign button and sitting on a metal belted radial in the front of the white abode with a speech bubble declaring "i concept you stated political satire"