Winston Churchill Flashcards
Why should we have statues of Churchill in relation to poison gas?
He proposed to use gas that wouldn’t permanently harm anyone, instead of mustard gas like everyone else
Why should we have statues of Churchill in relation to the Bengal famine?
Churchill stopped the famine from getting worse by ‘stopping the suffering without undermining the war effort’
Why should we have statues of Churchill in relation to religion?
He supported the Jews, and nearly converted to Islam.
Why should we have statues of Churchill in general?
He stopped Britain from signing Hitler’s peace treaty
He helped stop the Irish war of independence
Why shouldn’t we have statues of Churchill in relation to poison gas?
He did use poison gas, and was strongly in favor of using the gas against the Kurd and Afghans
Why shouldn’t we have statues of Churchill in relation to his views on race?
He believed in racial hierarchies, with white protestant Christians at the top
Why shouldn’t we have statues of Churchill in relation to the Bengal famine?
Churchill used the rice to feed the British troops instead of the starving Indian people, the blamed India for the famine, when 3 million died
Why shouldn’t we have statues of Churchill in relation to his statements about Gandhi?
He said that it would be good for the British empire if Gandhi died and saw him as an enemy. He also called him nauseating and half-naked
Why shouldn’t we have statues of Churchill in general
He sent the army on strikers
He ordered a building with gangs inside to be left burning
Around how many were killed in WW2?
Around 70 million
How many countries fought in WW2?
61 countries
When was the invasion of Poland?
September 1939
When was operation Barbarossa?
June 1941
When was pearl harbour?
Dec 1941
When was D-day?
June 1944
When did Japan surrender?
August 1945
When did Germany surrender?
May 1945
Why was the Battle of the Atlantic a key turning point?
It provided Britain with weapons and food so they could defeat Germany
Why was the Battle of Britain a key turning point?
Because this resulted in Britain not being conquered, and europe not being under nazi control
Why was Operation Barbarossa a key turning point?
It gave the soviets a moral boost
Why was the second Battle of El Alamein a key turning point?
There were 13,8000 casualties and 30,000 captured
Why was the Battle of Stalingrad a key turning point?
It was Germany’s first major defeat
Stopped Germany invading Moscow
Germans got frostbite
Why was Pear Harbour a key turning point?
It brough America into the war
Why was the Battle of Midway a key turning point?
It ended the japanese invasion
strategic importance
