Churchill - Conferences Flashcards

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Atlantic conference: date

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8-11th August 1941

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Atlantic conference: location

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Argentina, Newfoundland

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Atlantic conference: main participants

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Churchill and Roosevelt

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Atlantic conference: what was discussed

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Atlantic Charter

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First Washington Conference: date

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22 December 1941 - 14 January 1942

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First Washington Conference: location

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Washington, DC

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First Washington Conference: main participants

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Churchill, Roosevelt

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First Washington Conference: what was discussed

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‘Europe first’ policy for fighting war; establishing a United Nations organising after the war

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Second Washington Conference: date

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20 - 25th June 1942

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Quote from the British Ambassador at the 1942 Moscow conference?

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‘I felt like giving him a good kick up the arse. My respect for him and faith in him have suffered badly.’

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How does Sir Alexander Cadogen describe Churchill at the Moscow conference?

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‘like a bull in a ring maddened by the pricks of the picadors’

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Sir Alan Brooke description of Quebec?

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‘Winston made matters almost impossible, temperamental like a film star and peevish like a spoiled child.’

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At Tehran conference how did Churchill act?

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He scowled and his face visibly reddened when Roosevelt and Stalin joked together.

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How did Churchill describe his document at the Moscow conference in 1944?

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‘I have this naughty document here.’

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Second Washington Conference: location

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Washington, DC

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Yalta: Churchill’s views

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Undermined the whole moral position of Britain’s entry into the war, due to Poland.

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Second Washington Conference: main participants

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Churchill, Roosevelt

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18
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Second Washington Conference: purpose

A

Opening another front in North African campaign

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Second Moscow conference: date

A

12 - 17 August 1942

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Second Moscow conference: location

A

Moscow USSR

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Second Moscow Conference: main participants

A

Churchill, Stalin, Harriman

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Second Moscow Conference: purpose

A

Second front; the Mediterranean strategy

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Casablanca Conference: date

A

14 - 24 January 1943

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Casablanca Conference: location

A

Casablanca, Morocco

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Casablanca Conference: main participants

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Churchill, Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Henri Giruad

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Casablanca Conference: purpose

A

Indian campaign; plan for cross channel invasion in 1944; declaration of ‘unconditional surrender’ of Axis; plan to unify French leadership in London (de Gaulle) and Algiers (Giraud)

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Third Washington Conference: date

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12 - 27 May 1943

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Third Washington Conference: location

A

Washington, DC

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Third Washington Conference:

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Churchill, Roosevelt, Marshall

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Third Washington Conference: purpose

A

Italian Campaign; air attacks on Germany; war in pacific

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Quebec conference: date

A

17 - 24 August 1943

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Quebec conference: location

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Quebec, Canada

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Quebec conference: main participants

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Churchill, Roosevelt, King (Canadian MP)

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Quebec conference: purpose

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Day set for D-day / War in far east

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Cairo conference: date

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23 - 26 November 1943

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Cairo conference: location

A

Cairo, Egypt

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Cairo conference: main participants

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Churchill, Roosevelt, Jiang Jieshi (leader of Nationalist China)

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Cairo conference: purpose

A

Plans for post-war Aisa

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Tehran conference: date

A

28 November - 1st December 1943

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Tehran conference: location

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Tehran, Iran

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Tehran Conference: main participants

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Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin

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Tehran Conference: purpose

A

First meeting of the big three. Final strategy for the war against Nazi Germany and its allies; date for the invasion of Northern France

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Second Cairo conference: date

A

4 - 6 December 1943

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Second Cairo conference: location

A

Cairo, Egypt

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Second Cairo conference: main participants

A

Churchill, Roosevelt

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Second Cairo conference: purpose

A

War in the far east

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Second Quebec conference: date

A

12 - 16 September 1944

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Second Quebec conference: location

A

Quebec, Canada

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Second Quebec conference: main participants

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Churchill, Roosevelt

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Second Quebec conference: purpose

A

Morgenthau Plan for post-war Germany; progress of war

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Fourth Moscow Conference: date

A

9 - 19 October 1944

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Fourth Moscow Conference: location

A

Moscow, USSR

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Fourth Moscow Conference: main participants

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Churchill, Stalin, Molotov, Eden

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Fourth Moscow Conference: purpose

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Establishing post war spheres of influence in Eastern Europe

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Malta conference: date

A

30 January - 2 February 1945

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Malta conference: location

A

Malta

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Malta conference: main participants

A

Churchill, Roosevelt

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Malta conference: purpose

A

Preparation for Yalta

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Yalta conference: date

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4 - 11 February 1945

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Yalta conference: location

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Yalta, USSR

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Yalta conference: main participants

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Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin

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Yalta conference: purpose

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Final plans for the defeat of Germany; post war Europe; date for united nations conference; soviet unions entrance into war against Japan

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Potsdam conference: date

A

17 July - 2 August 1945

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Potsdam conference: location

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Potsdam Germany

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Potsdam conference: main participants

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Churchill, Stalin, Truman, the Atlee

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Potsdam conference: main participants

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Unconditional surrender of Japan; policy of Germany