Why The Alliance between Stalin and Churchill Was Based on Pragmatism
Churchill may not have thought highly of the Soviet leader, but he viewed them as an essential ally to help Britain deal with Nazi Germany.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Churchill was driven by one overwhelming motive: he needed Russia to continue fighting until the historically notorious winter months started, since a separate peace between Stalin and Hitler would only enable the Nazis to turn back on the British Isles again.
Though British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premiere Josef Stalin were suspicious of one another, they were compelled to cooperate early in World War II.
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Battle of Cantigny: America s Bloody Baptism in World War I
In their first major battles of World War I, American Expeditionary Force troops helped blunt multiple offensives launched by the German Army in the spring of 1918.
Here s What You Need to Know: Throughout the winter of 1917-1918, Ludendorff had worked hard to prepare German forces to defeat the Allies before the full strength of the American military might be brought to bear on the Western Front.
As the fateful day drew to a close, the exhausted soldiers of the German 25th and 82nd Reserve Divisions huddled in their trenches. It was May 30, 1918, and for the past two days the Germans had battled elements of the American 1st Division for control of the small village of Cantigny and its environs. Before them the virgin ground had been churned, the town shot up, and its cemetery turned into a ghoulish battlefield of broken headstones and protruding coffins.
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Strange Bedfellows: Churchill and Stalin s Uneasy Alliance in World War II
The alliance that defeated the Nazis in World War II brought truth to the old adage, ’The enemy of my enemy is my friend.’
Here s What You Need to Know: Though British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premiere Josef Stalin were suspicious of one another, they were compelled to cooperate early in World War II.
In the Grand Alliance volume of Winston S. Churchill’s memoirs of World War II, the British prime minister lambasted Soviet Premier Josef Stalin and his inept government for failing to anticipate Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941.
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