Churchill - Conferences Flashcards
Atlantic conference: date
8-11th August 1941
Atlantic conference: location
Argentina, Newfoundland
Atlantic conference: main participants
Churchill and Roosevelt
Atlantic conference: what was discussed
Atlantic Charter
First Washington Conference: date
22 December 1941 - 14 January 1942
First Washington Conference: location
Washington, DC
First Washington Conference: main participants
Churchill, Roosevelt
First Washington Conference: what was discussed
‘Europe first’ policy for fighting war; establishing a United Nations organising after the war
Second Washington Conference: date
20 - 25th June 1942
Quote from the British Ambassador at the 1942 Moscow conference?
‘I felt like giving him a good kick up the arse. My respect for him and faith in him have suffered badly.’
How does Sir Alexander Cadogen describe Churchill at the Moscow conference?
‘like a bull in a ring maddened by the pricks of the picadors’
Sir Alan Brooke description of Quebec?
‘Winston made matters almost impossible, temperamental like a film star and peevish like a spoiled child.’
At Tehran conference how did Churchill act?
He scowled and his face visibly reddened when Roosevelt and Stalin joked together.
How did Churchill describe his document at the Moscow conference in 1944?
‘I have this naughty document here.’
Second Washington Conference: location
Washington, DC
Yalta: Churchill’s views
Undermined the whole moral position of Britain’s entry into the war, due to Poland.
Second Washington Conference: main participants
Churchill, Roosevelt
Second Washington Conference: purpose
Opening another front in North African campaign
Second Moscow conference: date
12 - 17 August 1942
Second Moscow conference: location
Moscow USSR
Second Moscow Conference: main participants
Churchill, Stalin, Harriman
Second Moscow Conference: purpose
Second front; the Mediterranean strategy
Casablanca Conference: date
14 - 24 January 1943
Casablanca Conference: location
Casablanca, Morocco
Casablanca Conference: main participants
Churchill, Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Henri Giruad
Casablanca Conference: purpose
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)