The Peace Was Lost By Ignoring Justice And the Facts of Life IN the year of total victory in the greatest of all wars, Winston Churchill concludeda top-secret cable to Franklin Roosevelt with this ...

In 1943, with the Axis collapsing, Nazi intelligence prepared an audacious strike. Code-named Operation Long Jump, it aimed to assassinate Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin during the Tehran Conference ...

Churchill did not take part in Yalta’s Far Eastern discussions. His memoirs for late 1944 show his curt dismissal of the importance of China. “This American obsession,” he wrote. “That China is one of ...

Archive 1945 is a project republishing The Economist’s original reporting on the final year of the second world war. Eighty years on, follow the course of the conflict week by week, in new instalments ...

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill: Politics and Government\Foreign leader\Prime Minister\Great Britain Franklin Delano ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On February 4, 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Livadia Palace, in the Crimean resort of Yalta, with a single item on the agenda: to ...

Dec. 1 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1891, the game of basketball was invented when James Naismith, a physical education teacher at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Mass., ...

The anniversary of the Yalta Conference, which ended 80 years ago this week in a Soviet-occupied Crimean resort on the Black Sea, has a special significance in central and eastern Europe—and not just ...