Historical Context - Churchill Flashcards
When did Hitler come to power?
January 1933
When did Germany reintroduce conscription?
March 1935
When was the Anglo-German Naval treaty?
June 1935
When did Germany remilitarise the Rhineland?
March 1936
When was the abdication crisis?
March 1936
When did Chamberlain become prime minister?
May 1937
When did Germany annex Austria?
March 1938
When was the crisis over Czechoslovakia?
September 1938
When was the Munich Agreement?
September 1938
When did Germany invade Czechoslovakia?
March 1939
When did Britain declare war on Germany?
September 1939
When did Churchill become prime minister?
May 1940
When was the League of Nations established?
1920
When was the Locarno Pact?
1925
What was the Locarno Pact?
Agreement between France, Britain, Italy and Germany guaranteeing Germany’s western frontiers as established by ToV in 1919.§
When was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
August 1928
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Outlawed war as a means of settling international disputes.
When was the Dunkirk evacuation?
May 1940
When did France surrender?
June 1940
When was the Battle of Britain?
July-September 1940
When was the Nazi invasion of the USSR?
June 1941
When did the US enter the war?
December 1941
When was the Beveridge Report?
November 1942
When was the German defeat at Stalingrad?
February 1943
When did the Allies invade Sicily?
July 1943
When were the D-Day landings in Normandy?
June 1944
When was the Yalta Conference?
February 1945
When did the War in Europe end?
May 1945
When did Church lose the election in Britain?
July 1945
When did Italy join the war?
1940
When was the ‘Destroyers for Bases’ agreement with USA?
September 1940
When was the Lend-Lease Act?
March 1941
When did Japan attack the US base at Pearl Harbour?
December 1941
When was the Tehran Conference?
November 1943
When did Stalin and Churchill make the ‘Percentages Agreement’?
October 1944
When was the Yalta Conference?
February 1945
When did Roosevelt die?
April 1945
When was the Potsdam Conference?
July-August 1945
When was Churchill’s ‘iron curtain’ speech?
March 1946
When did Churchill returns to office?
October 1951
When did the Greek civil war break out?
1944
