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While the war with Germany continued, the wartime allies (USA, USSR and Britain) met to discuss the post-war future of Europe. In February 1945, ‘the Big Three’ – Churchill, Roosevelt and ...
term coined by Churchill to describe the association of nations, in particular the UK, USA, and USSR, which came together
War of the Grand Alliance, (1689–97), the third major war of Louis XIV of France, in which his expansionist plans were blocked by an alliance led by England, the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and the Austrian Habsburgs.
Officially termed the Anti-Hitlerite Coalition by the Soviet Union, the Grand Alliance (1941 – 1945) was a military and political coalition of countries fighting against the Axis (Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Imperial Japan), and their satellites.
Grand Alliance, War of the, 1688–97, war between France and a coalition of European powers, known as the League of Augsburg (and, after 1689, as the Grand Alliance).
Background. The Grand Alliance was the most significant of the coalitions formed in response to the wars of Louis XIV that began in 1667 and ended in 1714. Post-1648, French expansion was helped by the decline of Spanish power while the Peace of Westphalia formalised religious divisions within the Holy Roman Empire.
May 23, 2024 · The original Grand Alliance, not to be confused with the Grand Alliance of World War Two, was a group of roughly a dozen European nations allied in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries against the expansionist French kingdom under Louis XIV.
May 22, 2023 · Abstract. This chapter explores the creation of the United Nations and the Grand Alliance during World War II. Technically speaking, both terms refer to the association of nations that was brought together to defeat the Axis. But in practice the two appellations came to embody two distinct entities.
This collection by leading British and American scholars on twentieth century international history covers the strategy, diplomacy and intelligence of the Anglo-American-Soviet alliance during the Second World War.
The two representatives of the Spanish monarchy, Gastanaga, Governor of Brussels, and the envoy Ronquillo in London, welcomed with glad approval a proposal of which the effect would be the ruin of French influence in England.
