What’s the context? 31 March 1939: the British guarantee to Poland
...that if Britain had to fight Germany, it was better to do it in alliance with Poland and France. The French were willing to have meaningful staff talks and there...
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What’s the context? The resignation of Anthony Eden, 20 February 1938
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...actively seeking better relations with both Nazi Germany and Italy since the summer of 1937, Chamberlain taking the opportunity of Eden’s holidays to see if anything might be done to...
What’s the Context? 15 February 1942: The Fall of Singapore
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...There never has been a moment, there never could be a moment, when Great Britain or the British Empire, single-handed, could fight Germany and Italy, could wage the Battle of...
The war that did not end at 11am on 11 November
...30 October, and the Austro-Hungarian Government on 3 November. Germany was the last of the Central Powers to sue for peace. The Armistice with Germany was agreed to come into...
What’s the context? 8 May 1945: VE Day, the end of the war in Europe
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...taken at Teheran and Yalta, major differences between the occupying powers (Britain, France, the US and USSR) on the treatment of Germany and the allocation of its resources had already...
What’s the Context? Occupying Powers sign Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin, 3 September 1971
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...respective positions of the FRG (West Germany) and GDR (East Germany) in relation to Berlin. Though neither West nor East achieved all they wanted from the negotiations, the fact the...
Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia, 20 to 21 August 1968
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...Poland and Yugoslavia were a different matter; and if the contagion of unrest spread to East Germany, the spectre of an increasingly powerful West Germany eroding the supremacy of the...
What’s the Context? 21 March 1946: Frank Roberts’ ‘Long Telegram’
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...Germany, and that postwar Germany should look east, not west. Where Russian interests were not threatened, Western interests and objectives could be accommodated; but any perceived encroachment would be resisted,...
What was happening between the armistice and the opening of the Paris peace talks?
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The Armistice Agreement with Germany was signed on 11 November 1918, but the Peace Conference did not start proceedings until 18 January 1919. With so much at stake, why did...
What’s the context? US Secretary of State proposes a ‘Marshall Plan’ for the reconstruction of Europe, 5 June 1947
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...in the city of Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, during the exceptionally harsh winter of 1947. Commons wikimedia However, tensions within the US administration (between State Department, Treasury and Pentagon) on...