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United Kingdom in World War II
- Anglo-Soviet AgreementOn the 12th of July 1941, two men sat down in Moscow to sign a document that would reshape the war in Europe. Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's Ambassador to…
- Anglo-Polish allianceThe Anglo-Polish alliance was born on the 31st of March 1939, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stood in Parliament and pledged that if…
- Norway DebateThe Norway Debate opened at 14:45 on Tuesday, the 7th of May 1940, with Speaker Edward FitzRoy in the Chair. Three days later, Neville Chamberlain was gone…
- Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to GermanyOn the 1st of August 1945, the Potsdam Agreement established provisional terms for governing Germany after World War II.
- Yalta ConferenceThe Yalta Conference opened on the 4th of February 1945, inside three palaces overlooking the Black Sea in Soviet Crimea.
- 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…
- Destroyers-for-bases dealBy late June 1940, France had surrendered to Germany and Italy. The British Empire and the Commonwealth stood alone in warfare against Hitler and Mussolini.
- Admiralty (United Kingdom)The Admiralty was the single most powerful naval institution in British history, a department of government responsible for commanding the Royal Navy across…
- Polish government-in-exileThe Polish government-in-exile began with a proclamation issued in Kuty, a small town near Poland's southern border, on the 17th of September 1939.