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3) This Day In History: January 14, 1943 - Casablanca Conference Is Attended by Churchill & Roosevelt
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca.
Pub. Date
[1945]
Language
English
Description
Though Allied forces had declared victory in Europe in May 1945, World War II was still raging in the Pacific theater. Winston Churchill, then the prime minister of Britain, called for support from the British public as U.S. and British troops brought the war with the Japanese to its conclusion.
Pub. Date
[1940]
Language
English
Description
When the French government conceded defeat to Nazi Germany on June 18, 1940, British prime minister Winston Churchill announced in a speech given to the House of Commons that Britain would continue to fight. Invading Britain would be more difficult for the Germans than invading France had been, since Britain was an island. In preparation for the invasion, Adolf Hitler ordered a prolonged air strike against Britain. During the Battle of Britain, which...
Pub. Date
[1946]
Language
English
Description
On March 5, 1946, British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered this address to an audience at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. In it he expressed concern at the growing influence of the communist Soviet Union in eastern Europe, which lay "behind an Iron Curtain".
Pub. Date
[1940]
Language
English
Description
When the French government conceded defeat to Nazi Germany on June 18, 1940, British prime minister Winston Churchill announced in a speech to the House of Commons that Britain would continue to fight. More than 800 British fighter planes were ready to defend against the German Luftwaffe, which began air raids against Britain in July 1940. By May 1941 the Royal Air Force's superior tactics secured a victory in the Battle of Britain.
Pub. Date
[1946]
Language
English
Description
In March 1946, British prime minister Winston Churchill delivered a speech that recognized that an "Iron Curtain" had descended across Soviet-controlled areas in central and eastern Europe. This imagery was soon recognized as a symbol for the Soviet Union's political and social isolationism, and it became an enduring philosophy of the cold war.
Pub. Date
[1945]
Language
English
Description
Three months prior to the surrender of Germany during World War II, leaders from the "Big Three" Allied nations - the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union - met at the Yalta Conference to discuss the future of Poland, Germany, and the remainder of eastern Europe after the end of the war. Russian premier Joseph Stalin also reaffirmed the promise he had made at the Tehran Conference in 1943 - that once Germany had been defeated, the Soviet...
12) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin Meet at the Tehran Conference ca. 1943
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
In November 1943, U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Russian premier Joseph Stalin met in Tehran to pledge support against Nazi Germany. The Tehran Conference marked the first summit meeting of the "Big Three" during World War II.
14) Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek Meet at the Cairo Conference ca. 1943
Pub. Date
[1943]
Language
English
Description
In November 1943 U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese general Chiang Kai-shek met in Cairo, Egypt, to sign a mutual support agreement in the war against Japan. At the Cairo Conference, China officially became a member of the Allied powers.
Pub. Date
[2011], c1996
Language
English
Description
Of all the political leaders who dominated the 20th Century, Winston Spencer Churchill is unique. In 1900, Joseph Stalin was a junior clerk, Adolf Hitler, a spoiled 11-year old child, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a freshman at Harvard; but Winston Churchill was already a military expert, a celebrated author, and a member of the English Parliament. This episode of Profiles traces his long, varied, and heroic career that has touched some of the most monumental...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz "Churchill's lessons of resilience and his style of steady-handed leadership are essential to the state of mind of American readers."-Vanity Fair "A bravura performance by one of America's greatest storytellers."-NPR On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler...
Series
Language
English
Description
Behind the smokescreen of the massive Anglo-American/Soviet pincer movement that would inevitably crush the German war effort, Churchill and Stalin were locked in a grim struggle of wills to set the terms that would decide the immediate future of postwar Europe-a contest in which victory was tipped to the U.S.S.R. through the secret intervention of President Roosevelt. This program reveals the details, supported by readings from the diaries of Sir...
18) Darkest hour
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly appointed British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible odds.
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