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Listen Winston Churchill delivering his first speech as the Prime Minister, 1940
Listen to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill address a joint U.S. Congress session after Pearl Harbor
Atlantic Charter Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Yalta Conference Yalta Conference
Deciding Germany's future: The Potsdam Conference
Atlantic Charter Henri Giraud, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Winston Churchill; Casablanca Conference
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Listen Winston Churchill delivering his first speech as the Prime Minister, 1940
Winston Churchill addressing Parliament in his first speech as prime minister, May...
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Listen to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill address a joint U.S. Congress session after Pearl Harbor
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress...
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Deciding Germany's future: The Potsdam Conference
Learn about the Potsdam Conference, attended by Winston Churchill, Harry Truman,...
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Follow the United States' path from isolationism toward joining the Allied powers in World War II
Still with the hope of not directly engaging in the war, the United States provided...
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Watch President Roosevelt outline his Four Freedoms and learn how Britain defeated Germany's Luftwaffe
The Royal Air Force fending off German bombers during the Battle of Britain in the...
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How the halt command saved British troops in Dunkirk
Overview of the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, 1940.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz

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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill, photograph by Yousuf Karsh, 1941.
Karsh/Woodfin Camp and Associates
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Winston Churchill.
FSA-Office of War Information Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-USW33-019093-C)
Atlantic Charter
(From left, seated) Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King, U.S. Pres. Franklin...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Yalta Conference
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (left) and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill...
U.S. Army Photo
Yalta Conference
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Joseph...
U.S. Army Photo
Atlantic Charter
Atlantic Charter Conference, August 1941.
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph
Henri Giraud, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, and Winston Churchill; Casablanca Conference
Allied leaders (from left) French Gen. Henri Giraud, U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt,...
U.S. Army Photo
Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference
Potsdam Conference, with U.S. President Harry S. Truman (center), flanked by Soviet...
U.S. Army Photo
Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman, and Soviet...
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Potsdam Conference
U.S. Pres. Harry S. Truman (centre) shaking hands with British Prime Minister Winston...
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Tehrān Conference: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill
(From left) Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, and British...
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Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin
(From left) Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta...
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Yalta Conference
(From left) Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta...
Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives
Yalta Conference
(From left) Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin at the Yalta...
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Beerbohm, Max: The Churchill-Wells Controversy
The Churchill-Wells Controversy, pencil and wash drawing by Max Beerbohm,...
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