Stalin and Churchill

• When and where did they first meet?

  12 August 1942 - Moscow
• What did they agree on?

  Shared capacity for drink

  Shared nationalist / patriotic views

  Both determined to maintain interests of the Empire

  Shared disinterest in idea of self determination for subject peoples
• Who was Stalin?

  Soviet revolutionary politician

  Held powers as general secretary of the communist party

  Consolidated his position by intensive policies and terror
• What did they think of each other?

  Churchill was fond of Stalin
• What did they disagree on?

  Stalin suspected Britain's alliance was motivated by thoughts of Germany and Russia destroying each other

  Stalin accused Churchill of hoping to install right wing governments in eatern europe

  Communism

  Yalta conference - Soviet policy in Eastern Europe