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British Empire in World War II
- Mahatma GandhiAt 5:17 p.m. on the 30th of January 1948, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was walking through the garden of Birla House in Delhi, his grandnieces beside him, on…
- Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill was born on the 30th of November 1874 inside Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home his family had held for generations in Oxfordshire.
- Neville ChamberlainNeville Chamberlain stepped off a plane at Heston Aerodrome on the 30th of September 1938 and waved a single sheet of paper at the waiting crowd.
- Declaration by United NationsOn the 1st of January 1942, four world leaders gathered in Washington D.C. and signed a single short document that would reshape the entire course of the war…
- Clement AttleeClement Attlee walked into Buckingham Palace on the 26th of July 1945 to be appointed Prime Minister. King George VI stood waiting.
- Potsdam ConferenceThe Potsdam Conference opened on the 17th of July 1945, just sixteen days after the most destructive war in human history had ended in Europe.
- Quit India MovementOn the 8th of August 1942, Mahatma Gandhi stood before the All India Congress Committee in Bombay and launched a political campaign demanding an end to…
- Atlantic CharterThe Atlantic Charter was born on the 14th of August 1941, in the waters of Placentia Bay off the coast of Newfoundland, months before the United States had…
- Lend-LeaseLend-Lease was not charity. It was not a loan in any conventional sense. When President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Lend-Lease Act into law on the 11th of…
- John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge on the 5th of June 1883, the son of an economist father and a mother who would go on to become her town's second…