the Yalta Conference. The U.S. was represented by President Harry S. Truman and the USSR by Premier Joseph Stalin. The United Kingdom was represented at first by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and later by the new prime minister‚ Clement Richard Attlee. A communiqué issued at the close of the conference‚ and known as the Potsdam Agreement‚ contained the decisions reached by the participants. The principal decisions related to Germany. Administration of the country‚ until the establishment of a
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previous president‚ Roosevelt‚ had been. Truman came away angry about the size of reparations and the fact that a communist government was being set up in Poland. This was a problem for Stalin. Also‚ Churchill had been voted out and was replaced by Attlee. Stalin saw himself as far more experienced than these new leaders. Stalin also caused trouble‚ as some of what the allies agreed on at Yalta was that Poland should have a neutral government. Stalin had killed the neutral government leaders and replaced
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Lord Wavell’s Plan (1945); Lord Wavell‚ the viceroy of India‚ announced his plan on 14th June 1945 to end the political ruin. Lord Wavell made the following proposals: 1. The Viceroy’s Executive Council would be reconstructed. It would wholly consist of Indians except for the Viceroy and the commander-in-chief. 2. Hindus and Muslims would be represented at par on the Viceroy’s Council. 3. Executive Council as Interim Government would have complete authority and it work till the end of the war. 4
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Aneurin Bevan 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960 was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960. His most famous accomplishment came when‚ as Minister of Health in the post-war Attlee government‚ he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service‚ which was to provide medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons. When? The National Health Service started on 5 July 1948. It was a momentous achievement and
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Sterling into any currency. However‚ Britain had to revoke the convertibility on August 20 as massive demands of Sterling-holders for an exchange of their Sterling holdings into US Dollars rapidly drained the British Dollar reserves. Prime minister Attlee was pursuing a policy of building a welfare state‚ which would add to the strain on the British economy. In August 1947 when convertibility was due to begin‚ the economy was not as strong as it needed to be. When the Labour Government enacted convertibility
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Subhas Chandra Bose ( listen (help•info); January 1897 – 18 August 1945 [unconfirmed]) byname Netaji (Hindi: “Respected leader”) was an Indian revolutionary who led an Indian national force against the British Raj (and therefore also against the allied Western powers) during World War II. Bose was one of the most prominent leaders in the Indian independence movement and is a legendary figure in India today. He is presumed to have died "in absentia" on 18 August 1945 from injuries sustained in an
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Before the World War II‚ the United Kingdom is dealing with a big crisis‚ also called the Great Depression. During this period of crisis‚ the number of unemployed people increased dramatically‚ especially for the working class. At the beginning of it‚ a Labour government was elected for a short period of time (1929-1931). At its head was Ramsay MacDonald. When he resigned‚ a Conservative government was then elected. To put an end to this crisis‚ this Conservative government made many cuts‚ including
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Outcome of Revolt By Mahatma Gandhi :-Mahatma Gandhi had played the most important role in the freedom struggle ofIndia through his basic principle of truth‚ non violence and Satyagraha. He entered in the political scenario in 1916 after returning from a successful struggle against discrimination faced by black people in South Africa. In India through chain of movement for peasants and labourers in Champaren‚ Ahemdabad and Kheda he entered the Indian scene. Then he reached the zenith of political
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this new peacekeeping bodyU.S. and USSR used the UN to influence other nationsTruman Becomes President (1945)Truman had been left out of big policy decisions as VPAmericans doubted TrumanThe Potsdam ConferenceU.S.‚ Great Britain‚ and USSR (Truman‚ Attlee‚ and Stalin) discussed postwar issues Tension Mounts Truman wanted democracy in nations that had been under Nazi rule through self-determinationBargaining at PotsdamU.S.‚ UK‚ USSR‚ and France all took reparations mainly from their own occupationzones
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damage the conservative party as portraying the leader as a deceitful being could cause resentment from the public to the conservative party as a whole‚ ruining their chances of being elected. However it is unsurprising that source C has this view as Attlee (the spokesman from this source) was the labour party leader during this period and therefore opposed the conservatives which would mean that he would have purposely presented Churchill in this manner -an evil manipulator - to gain an advantage over
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