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British Empire in World War II
- Mahatma GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on the 2nd of October 1869 in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula. His father Karamchand Uttamchand…
- Winston ChurchillOn the 30th of November 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
- Neville ChamberlainArthur Neville Chamberlain entered the world on the 18th of March 1869 at a house called Southbourne in the Edgbaston district of Birmingham.
- Declaration by United NationsThe Allied nations first articulated their shared vision in the Declaration of St. James's Palace during June 1941. This agreement emerged from the First…
- Clement AttleeClement Richard Attlee was born on the 3rd of January 1883 in Putney, Surrey. He grew up in a two-storey villa with a large garden and tennis court.
- Potsdam ConferenceThe Potsdam Conference opened on the 17th of July 1945 at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, near Berlin. Harry S. Truman had just assumed the presidency after Franklin…
- 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 CharterOn the 9th of August 1941, the British battleship HMS Prince of Wales steamed into Placentia Bay. Winston Churchill stood on its deck as it met the American…
- Lend-LeaseThe 1930s began with one of the world's greatest economic depressions. The later recession of 1937, 1938 was also one of the worst of the 20th century.
- John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes entered the world on the 5th of June 1883 in Cambridge, England. His father John Neville Keynes worked as an economist and lecturer at…