Curated playlist
United Kingdom in World War II
- Anglo-Soviet AgreementBritain and the Soviet Union signed a two-clause alliance in Moscow on the 12th of July 1941.
- Anglo-Polish allianceBritain's 1939 promise to defend Poland secretly covered only an attack by Germany.
- Norway DebateThe Norway Debate of 1940 was a vote the government won, yet it still cost Chamberlain his job. Its majority fell to 81.
- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyThe Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany was signed in Moscow on the 12th of September 1990. Most people know it by a shorter name, the Two Plus Four Agreement. The two were West Germany and East Germany. The four were…
- Yalta ConferenceStalin refused every meeting site Roosevelt suggested, so the Yalta Conference met on Soviet soil.
- Atlantic CharterThe Atlantic Charter was never actually signed. Roosevelt himself said no copy of it existed that he knew of.
- Lend-LeaseRoosevelt likened Lend-Lease to lending a neighbor a garden hose. Senator Robert Taft compared it to chewing gum.
- Destroyers-for-bases dealThe destroyers-for-bases deal of 1940 sent fifty American warships to the Royal Navy, and Admiral Bertram Ramsay did not think much of them. He called them the "worst destroyers I had ever seen." Britain took them anyway. The United States…
- Admiralty (United Kingdom)Britain's Admiralty was run by a committee, because the Lord High Admiral's office sat empty.
- Polish government-in-exilePoland's exile government gave the Allies some of the earliest detailed Holocaust accounts.