Kq4 Flashcards
Potsdam conference
July 1945
Stalin, Truman, atlee
Operation torch
1942
BR becomes junior partner
Dresden?
13 Deb 1945- 40,000 dead
Atlantic charter
August 1941
Noble statement of freedom & democracy
Problems of Dresden
Killed civilians
At end of war, no purpose
Morale high ground lost
How many BR troops of bomber command died?
55,000
How many Gers lost their lives?
1/2 million
Tehran?
November 1943
What do to GER after 1945?
De militarised
De nazification
De centralisation
Bombing campaign strategy who led it ?
Total war under Arthur Harris
Early bomb destruction to GER?
June 1943 Ruhr and Hamburg, Cologne
All industrial places = v effective
Relationship w Charles de Gaulle
Respected him
Moral obligation to help
Rude
Heated arguments
Churchill view on Stalin ?
Blood thirsty dictator
Nazi-soviet pact
Communist ewwww
V.e day
8th may 1945
Roosevelt died?
April 1945
Churchill & stamina aims
Ch- keep russ in war, weaken Germany, delay 2nd front
St- 2nd front, friendly powers to border Russ,
American help in war effort pre 1941?
50 U.S. destroyers (use of Caribbean bases)
Lend-lease agreement (s.africa gold)
Grand alliance ?
BR, RU, FR
December 1941
War strategy from 1941?
Med stat under Churchill
+ of med strategy
Avoid blood baths
Protect BR interests (Suez Canal)
Soft underbelly
December 1941
Pearl harbour
Roosevelt at Tehran
Annoyed at br’s war strategy
-trapped in a war they didn’t want to be in
Yalta conference
Feb 1945, plan on post war Germany
Churchills naughty plan, split ger & Poland up
What year did church and rose, hit rocky relationship
1944 and Tehran
What happened at Tehran ?
second front in France
Lost his only bargaining tool
Polish territory
Factors of med strat?
Russ bear brunt of fight
Soft underbelly
Suez Canal
Problems of the med strategy?
Russia may not survive
Stalin might make deal with Hitler
USA want second front in France
