Churchill and International Deplomacy

Question 1

Churchill and Roosevelts relationship

Answer 1

• Roosevelt was notoriously for not committing himself (Conrad black biographer)
• snubbed Churchill at Tehran conference (1943)

Question 2

when did Roosevelt repeal the neutrality act + why

Answer 2

November 1939: Britain could now purchase weapons from USA

Question 3

Churchills position on communism

Answer 3

strongly criticised the bolshavic revolution of 1917

Question 4

what was Churchills position on Stalin

Answer 4

he tolerated him (communism) as a means to defeat hitler
- “If Hitler invaded Hell, I would at least make a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons”

Question 5

when was Yalta + what happened

Answer 5

1945 - Churchill forced to accept that Poland would loose her eastern territories to Russia

Question 6

when did Vichy-France come about + what was it

Answer 6

(1940) Vichy France was the pro nazi southern state of France after the germans took over

Question 7

Atlantic conference (who,when,what)

Answer 7

• roosevelt, Churchill
• august 1941
• discussed Atlantic charter (set out UK,US Goals post war)

Question 8

Casablanca conference

Answer 8

• January 1943
• plan for the Italian campaign

Question 9

tehran conference

Answer 9

• November 1943
• plans for post war Asia

Question 10

what was the significance of the Iron Curtain speech

Answer 10

• March 1946
• university of Missouri
• seen as the initiation of the cold-war