A report on Allies of World War II, Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek

The Roaring Lion, a portrait by Yousuf Karsh at the Canadian Parliament, December 1941

The Allied leaders of the European theatre (left to right): Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943

Jennie Spencer Churchill with her two sons, Jack (left) and Winston (right) in 1889.

The Allied leaders of the Asian and Pacific Theater: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeting at the Cairo Conference in 1943

Churchill in the military dress uniform of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars at Aldershot in 1895.

Sun Yat-sen and Chiang at the 1924 opening ceremonies for the Soviet-funded Whampoa Military Academy

Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1941 by the U.S. Office of War Information

Churchill in 1900 around the time of his first election to Parliament.

Wartime poster for the United Nations, created in 1943 by the U.S. Office of War Information

Churchill in 1904 when he "crossed the floor".

Chiang (right) together with Wang Jingwei (left), 1926

British Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft (bottom) flying past a German Heinkel He 111 bomber aircraft (top) during the Battle of Britain in 1940

Churchill and German Kaiser Wilhelm II during a military manoeuvre near Breslau, Silesia, in 1906.

British Crusader tanks during the North African Campaign

Churchill and his fiancée Clementine Hozier shortly before their marriage in 1908.

Chiang during a visit to an air force base in 1945

British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal under attack from Italian aircraft during the Battle of Cape Spartivento (27 Nov 1940)

Churchill (second left) photographed at the Siege of Sidney Street.

Chiang and Soong on the cover of Time magazine, 26 October 1931

British soldiers of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in Elst, Netherlands on 2 March 1945

As First Lord of the Admiralty, Churchill's London residency was Admiralty House (music room pictured).

Nationalist government of Nanking – nominally ruling over entire China in 1930s

Free French forces at the Battle of Bir Hakeim, 1942

Churchill commanding the 6th Battalion, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1916. His second-in-command, Archibald Sinclair, is seated on the left.

After the breakout of the Second Sino-Japanese War, The Young Companion featured Chiang on its cover.

FAFL Free French GC II/5 "LaFayette" receiving ex-USAAF Curtiss P-40 fighters at Casablanca, French Morocco

Churchill meets female workers at Georgetown's filling works near Glasgow in October 1918.

Chiang with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in Cairo, Egypt, November 1943

The French fleet scuttled itself rather than fall into the hands of the Axis after their invasion of Vichy France on 11 November 1942.

Churchill as Secretary of State for the Colonies during his visit to Mandatory Palestine, Tel Aviv, 1921.

Chiang and his wife Soong Mei-ling sharing a laugh with U.S. Lieutenant General Joseph W. Stilwell, Burma, April 1942

The fall of Damascus to the Allies, late June 1941. A car carrying Free French commanders General Georges Catroux and General Paul Louis Le Gentilhomme enters the city, escorted by French Circassian cavalry (Gardes Tcherkess).

Churchill with children Randolph and Diana in 1923.

Soviet soldiers and T-34 tanks advancing near Bryansk in 1942

Churchill on Budget Day with his wife Clementine and children Sarah and Randolph, 15 April 1929.

Chiang with South Korean President Syngman Rhee in 1949

Soviet soldiers fighting in the ruins of Stalingrad during the Battle of Stalingrad

Churchill meeting with film star Charlie Chaplin in Los Angeles in 1929.

Map of the Chinese Civil War (1946–1950)

Soviet Il-2 ground attack aircraft attacking German ground forces during the Battle of Kursk, 1943

Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, the chief proponent of appeasement.

Chiang with Japanese politician Nobusuke Kishi, in 1957

American Douglas SBD Dauntless dive-bomber aircraft attacking the Japanese cruiser Mikuma during the Battle of Midway in June 1942

Chiang presiding over the 1966 Double Ten celebrations

U.S. Marines during the Guadalcanal Campaign in November 1942

Churchill takes aim with a Sten sub-machine gun in June 1941. The man in the pin-striped suit and fedora to the right is his bodyguard, Walter H. Thompson.

Chiang with U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in June 1960

American Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft during the bombing of oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania on 1 August 1943 during Operation Tidal Wave

Churchill walks through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral with J A Moseley, M H Haigh, A R Grindlay and others, 1941.

The National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a famous monument, landmark, and tourist attraction in Taipei, Taiwan.

U.S. soldiers departing landing craft during the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 known as D-Day

Churchill and Roosevelt seated on the quarterdeck of for a Sunday service during the Atlantic Conference, 10 August 1941

Philippine Scouts at Fort William McKinley firing a 37 mm anti-tank gun in training

Huge portraits of Churchill and Stalin, Brisbane, Australia, 31 October 1941

Chinese propaganda poster proclaiming "Long Live the President"

Soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army associated with Nationalist China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Tehran Conference in 1943.

Soldiers of the First Workers' and Peasants' Army associated with Communist China, during the Sino-Japanese War

Churchill in the Roman amphitheatre of ancient Carthage to address 3,000 British and American troops, June 1943

Chiang Kai-shek and Winston Churchill heads, with Nationalist China flag and Union Jack

Victorious Chinese Communist soldiers holding the flag of the Republic of China during the Hundred Regiments Offensive

Churchill is greeted by a crowd in Québec City, Canada, 1943

Statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan

Members of the Belgian Resistance with a Canadian soldier in Bruges, September 1944 during the Battle of the Scheldt

Churchill's crossing of the Rhine river in Germany, during Operation Plunder on 25 March 1945.

Norwegian soldiers on the Narvik front, May 1940

Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, February 1945.

Chiang Kai-shek with the Muslim General Ma Fushou

Pilots of the No. 303 "Kościuszko" Polish Fighter Squadron during the Battle of Britain

The destruction of Dresden, February 1945.

Chiang Kai-shek as Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim

Polish partisan of the Home Army (AK), "Jędrusie" unit, holding a Browning wz.1928 light machine gun

Churchill waving the Victory sign to the crowd in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945. Ernest Bevin stands to his right.

Mao Fumei (毛福梅, 1882–1939), who died in the Second Sino-Japanese War during a bombardment, is the mother of his son and successor Chiang Ching-kuo

Partisans and Chetniks escorting captured Germans through Užice, autumn 1941

Churchill at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945.

Yao Yecheng (姚冶誠, 1889–1972), who came to Taiwan and died in Taipei

Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito with Winston Churchill in 1944

Chen Jieru (陳潔如, "Jennie", 1906–1971), who lived in Shanghai, but moved to Hong Kong later and died there

Chetniks leader General Mihailovic with members of the U.S. military mission, Operation Halyard, 1944

Churchill with Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, 10 February 1953.

Soong Mei-ling (宋美齡, 1898–2003), who moved to the United States after Chiang Kai-shek's death, is arguably his most famous wife even though they had no children together

Romanian soldiers in Transylvania, September–October 1944

Churchill with Anthony Eden, Dean Acheson and Harry Truman, 5 January 1952.

The dead bodies of Benito Mussolini, his mistress Clara Petacci, and several Fascist leaders, hanging for public display after they were executed by Italian partisans in 1945

Churchill's grave at St Martin's Church, Bladon.

The first version of the flag of the United Nations, introduced in April 1945

Allies (1995) by Lawrence Holofcener, a sculptural group depicting Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill in New Bond Street, London.

A British poster from 1941, promoting the greater alliance against Germany

The statue of Churchill (1973) by Ivor Roberts-Jones in Parliament Square, London

U.S. government poster showing a friendly Soviet soldier, 1942

The British Empire at its territorial peak in 1921.

As the leader of a major Allied power, Chiang met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Cairo Conference to discuss terms for the Japanese surrender.

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Churchill formed a national government and oversaw British involvement in the Allied war effort against the Axis powers, resulting in victory in 1945.

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The following August saw the Atlantic Conference between American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, which defined a common Anglo-American vision of the postwar world, as formalized by the Atlantic Charter.

- Allies of World War II

The Soviet Union intervened against Japan and its client state in Manchuria in 1945, cooperating with the Nationalist Government of China and the Nationalist Party led by Chiang Kai-shek; though also cooperating, preferring, and encouraging the Chinese Communist Party led by Mao Zedong to take effective control of Manchuria after expelling Japanese forces.

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In November, Churchill and Roosevelt met Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek at the Cairo Conference (codename Sextant).

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Eleanor and Franklin with their first two children, 1908

Roosevelt supported Governor Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 presidential election.

Theodore Roosevelt was Franklin Roosevelt's distant cousin and an important influence on his career.

Roosevelt as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1913

Rare photograph of Roosevelt in a wheelchair, with Fala and Ruthie Bie, the daughter of caretakers at his Hyde Park estate. Photo taken by his cousin Margaret Suckley (February 1941).

Gov. Roosevelt with his predecessor Al Smith, 1930

Results of the 1930 gubernatorial election in New York

Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act into law, August 14, 1935

1936 re-election handbill for Roosevelt promoting his economic policy

Roosevelt with Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas and other dignitaries in Brazil, 1936

The Roosevelts with King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, sailing from Washington, D.C., to Mount Vernon, Virginia, on the USS Potomac during the first U.S. visit of a reigning British monarch (June 9, 1939)

Foreign trips of Roosevelt during his presidency

Roosevelt and Winston Churchill aboard HMS Prince of Wales for 1941 Atlantic Charter meeting

Territory controlled by the Allies (blue and red) and the Axis Powers (black) in June 1942

The Allies (blue and red) and the Axis Powers (black) in December 1944

Official portrait of President Roosevelt by Frank O. Salisbury, c. 1947

In response, the US formally joined the Allies and entered the European theater of war.

Assisted by his top aide Harry Hopkins and with very strong national support, he worked closely with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin, and Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in leading the Allied Powers against the Axis Powers.

Allied troops in Vladivostok, August 1918, during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War

Cold War

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Period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, which began following World War II.

The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, 1945

Post-war Allied occupation zones in Germany

Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, 1945

Post-war territorial changes in Europe and the formation of the Eastern Bloc, the so-called "Iron Curtain"

Remains of the "Iron Curtain" in the Czech Republic

C-47s unloading at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade

President Truman signs the North Atlantic Treaty with guests in the Oval Office.

Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin in Moscow, December 1949

General Douglas MacArthur, UN Command CiC (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon, Korea from USS Mt. McKinley, 15 September 1950

US Marines engaged in street fighting during the liberation of Seoul, September 1950

NATO and Warsaw Pact troop strengths in Europe in 1959

From left to right: Soviet head of state Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and Finnish president Urho Kekkonen at Moscow in 1960.

The maximum territorial extent of Soviet influence, after the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and before the official Sino-Soviet split of 1961

Western colonial empires in Asia and Africa all collapsed in the years after 1945.

1961 Soviet stamp commemorating Patrice Lumumba, assassinated prime minister of the Republic of the Congo

The United States reached the Moon in 1969.

Che Guevara (left) and Fidel Castro (right) in 1961

Soviet and American tanks face each other at Checkpoint Charlie during the Berlin Crisis of 1961.

Aerial photograph of a Soviet missile site in Cuba, taken by a US spy aircraft, 1 November 1962

NATO and Warsaw Pact troop strengths in Europe in 1973

US combat operations during the Battle of Ia Drang, South Vietnam, November 1965

A manifestation of the Finlandization period: in April 1970, a Finnish stamp was issued in honor of the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's birth and the Lenin Symposium held in Tampere. The stamp was the first Finnish stamp issued about a foreign person.

The invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968 was one of the biggest military operations on European soil since World War II.

Suharto of Indonesia attending funeral of five generals slain in 30 September Movement, 2 October 1965

Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat with Henry Kissinger in 1975

Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet shaking hands with Henry Kissinger in 1976

Cuban tank in the streets of Luanda, Angola, 1976

During the Khmer Rouge regime led by Pol Pot, 1.5 to 2 million people died due to the policies of his four-year premiership.

Mao Zedong and US President Richard Nixon, during his visit in China

Leonid Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter sign the SALT II treaty, 18 June 1979, in Vienna

Iranian people protesting against the Pahlavi dynasty, during the Iranian Revolution

Protest in Amsterdam against the deployment of Pershing II missiles in Europe, 1981

The Soviet invasion during Operation Storm-333 on 26 December 1979

President Reagan publicizes his support by meeting with Afghan mujahideen leaders in the White House, 1983.

President Reagan with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a working luncheon at Camp David, December 1984

The world map of military alliances in 1980

US and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles, 1945–2006

Delta 183 launch vehicle lifts off, carrying the Strategic Defense Initiative sensor experiment "Delta Star".

After ten-year-old American Samantha Smith wrote a letter to Yuri Andropov expressing her fear of nuclear war, Andropov invited Smith to the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan sign the INF Treaty at the White House, 1987.

The beginning of the 1990s brought a thaw in relations between the superpowers.

"Tear down this wall!" speech: Reagan speaking in front of the Brandenburg Gate, 12 June 1987

Otto von Habsburg, who played a leading role in opening the Iron Curtain.

Erich Honecker lost control in August 1989.

The human chain in Lithuania during the Baltic Way, 23 August 1989

Changes in national boundaries after the end of the Cold War

Since the end of the Cold War, the EU has expanded eastwards into the former Warsaw Pact and parts of the former Soviet Union.

A map showing the relations of Marxist–Leninist states after the Sino-Soviet split as of 1980:
The USSR and pro-Soviet socialist states
China and pro-Chinese socialist states
Neutral Socialist nations (North Korea and Yugoslavia)
Non-socialist states

The conflict was based around the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence by these two superpowers, following their temporary alliance and victory against Nazi Germany in 1945.

This policy was spearheaded by Minister of War Winston Churchill, a committed British imperialist and anti-communist.

In 1949, Mao Zedong's People's Liberation Army defeated Chiang Kai-shek's United States-backed Kuomintang (KMT) Nationalist Government in China.