In May 1940, during the Second World War, the British war cabinet was split over whether to discuss peace terms with Germany or to continue fighting. Opinion...
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majority of meetings. The cabinet changed in size and membership as the war progressed but there were significant additions later in 1940 when it was increased...
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political crisis War cabinet crisis, May 1940 Westland affair 2018 British cabinet reshuffle July 2022 United Kingdom government crisis October 2022 United...
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The Churchill War Rooms is a museum in London and one of the five branches of the Imperial War Museum. The museum comprises the Cabinet War Rooms, a historic...
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Arthur Henderson (British war cabinet) Alfred Milner (British war cabinet) George Curzon (British war cabinet) Bonar Law (British war cabinet and future Prime...
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or the tofu". 1940 British war cabinet crisis 2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis 2022 Northern Ireland political crisis Confidence motions...
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The Chanak crisis (Turkish: Çanakkale Krizi), also called the Chanak affair and the Chanak incident, was a war scare in September 1922 between the United...
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Shell Crisis of 1915 Conscription Crisis of 1918 Gallipoli Crisis Chanak Crisis Abdication crisis of 1936 Munich Crisis 1940 British war cabinet crisis Suez...
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Clementine Churchill (category 20th-century British people)
Churchill – Alone – 1932–1940; p. 387; Little, Brown & Co.; ISBN 0-316-54503-1 Winston S. Churchill (1985). The Second World War. Vol. VI. Penguin. p. 421...
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The Danzig crisis was a 1939 crisis that led to World War II breaking out in Europe. On 8 January 1918, the U.S. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the...
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associated with the aristocratic elite of the day. All three daughters married British or Anglo-Irish husbands: Lady Randolph Churchill (née Jeanette Jerome;...
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"Terminological inexactitude" "The Other Club" Tonypandy riots 1940 British war cabinet crisis Bengal famine of 1943 Honorary U.S. citizenship Family Clementine...
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government in Cabinet felt that France was largely responsible for triggering the crisis and ought therefore be urged to give ground. The British government...
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1935–1937 Cabinets of Neville Chamberlain's national government, 1937–1939 Cabinets of Neville Chamberlain's war ministry, 1939–1940 Cabinets of Winston...
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with Göring to open negotiations. Shortly afterwards, in the May 1940 War Cabinet Crisis, Halifax argued for negotiations involving the Italians, but this...
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Chartwell (category Use British English from September 2019)
his war memoirs, which he had been forced to set aside when he returned to Downing Street in 1951. On 5 April 1955, Churchill chaired his last cabinet, almost...
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The Other Club is a British political dining society founded in 1911 by Winston Churchill and F. E. Smith. It met to dine fortnightly in the Pinafore...
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Norway Debate (category 1940 in politics)
Debate, was a momentous debate in the British House of Commons from 7 to 9 May 1940, during the Second World War. The official title of the debate, as...
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Churchill College, Cambridge (category Use British English from November 2012)
the United States' Massachusetts Institute of Technology and wanted a British version, but the plans evolved into the more modest proposal of creating...
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in July, 1914) (1916) online Wilson, K.M. "The British Cabinet's Decision for War, 2 August 1914" British Journal of International Studies 1#3 (1975), pp...
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the Churchill Museum, to form The Churchill Centre and Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms, London. In 2016, with the opening of the National Churchill Library...
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Conscription Crisis of 1944 was a political and military crisis following the introduction of forced military service for men in Canada during World War II. It...
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Randolph Churchill (category British Army personnel of World War II)
TNA – The National Archives, Kew CAB – British Cabinet Papers FO – British Foreign Office Papers HO – British Home Office Papers CUCC – Cambridge University...
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the end of 2022. Politics portal Cabinet crisis Contiades, Xenophon (2016). Constitutions in the Global Financial Crisis: A Comparative Analysis. Oxon:...
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Terminological inexactitude is a phrase introduced in 1906 by British politician Winston Churchill. It is used as a euphemism or circumlocution meaning...
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cabinet reshuffle October 2022 United Kingdom government crisis 1940 British war cabinet crisis Westland affair Some news outlets incorrectly reported him...
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his cabinet before it met again at 5 pm. The final "Declaration of Union" approved by the British War Cabinet stated that; France and Great Britain shall...
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stalwart British. British historian Max Hastings noted that Churchill downplayed his own importance in seeking to continue the war in 1940. The picture...
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Winston Churchill (category British prisoners of war of the Second Boer War)
was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and...
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Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill (category Events involving British royalty)
Churchill, the British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died on 24 January...
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