FDR & Churchill
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How did FDR and Churchill's relationship influence WWII?
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December 24th, 1943. Once more, we find President Franklin D. Roosevelt seated at his microphone. As we heard last week, the President had been meeting with Allied leaders across Europe and beyond. Among them was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, his steadfast partner in the war effort. Churchill hatte vor sechs Tagen im Dezember eine Fieber. Aber die Konferenzen haben sich geplant und waren ein Erfolg. Die besondere Beziehung zwischen Roosevelt und Churchill, die in der Kriegsrunde geformt wurde, wurde wiedereröffnet. Sie setzten den Stand für ihre fortschrittliche Zusammenarbeit in der Kampf gegen die Tyrannie. Natürlich, wie ihr alle wisst, haben Mr. Churchill und ich viele Male vorher getroffen. And we know and understand each other very well. Indeed, Mr. Churchill has become known and beloved by many millions of Americans. And the heartfelt prayers of all of us have been with this great citizen of the world in his recent serious illness.
Greetings all, welcome to American History Hit. I'm Don Wildman. The superlatives used to describe the British leader Winston Churchill, indomitable, resolute, tenacious, defender of the empire, are often followed by disparaging ones, arrogant, imperious, warmonger, autocrat. Es ist ein regelmäßiger Fassad der großen Figuren der Geschichte, zwei Seiten der selben Karte. Aber Churchill, der mit Welteventen intersektiert war, als ob Destinys Nummer sein musste, benötigte diese kontradiktorischen Träte, sicherlich als die Zweite Weltkrieg unvermeidbar wurde. Ohne Churchill gibt es keine Antwort auf Hitler. Die Briten verabschieden sich und kämpfen nicht. Without Churchill, a reluctant US is not drawn into the conflict.
It was Churchill's special relationship with the equally imperious Franklin Roosevelt that forged the alliance that finally dismantled the German war machine. And 80 years on, we would not be living in the free world we enjoy today without it. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt are still the rulers, against which all leaders in crisis are measured. There's a new limited series on Netflix these days that examines the mercurial and dynamic Winston Churchill, and it features prominently the voice of our guest today, a dynamic man himself, who also happens to have founded the streamer upon which this podcast is carried. He is the host of Dan Snow's History Hit and founder of HistoryHit.com. Dan Snow, welcome to American History Hit.
What an honor.
It's great to be here. Happy to have you. No disparaging descriptors for you. We've done a number of interviews in the past on this podcast. People can go right back to the beginning and find them. But also recently we've been doing a lot on FDR. So this is about, we're right in the pocket of what we've been doing a lot of lately. I invite listeners to track back to episode 243, FDR and the New Deal. But today we're lucky to have Dan, a living Englishman, to tell us about Winston Churchill in World War II. Take us back, Dan, if you will, to the midsummer months of 1940. France has surrendered. The Dutch fell a month earlier. Now it's Great Britain, alone against the Nazis. Grim days. How have events gone so badly?
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How did FDR and Churchill's relationship influence WWII?
0:02–12:43
2
What were the challenges faced by Britain in 1940?
12:43–18:55
3
Why did Churchill believe he needed American support?
18:55–24:56
4
What was the significance of the Lend-Lease Act?
24:56–30:14
5
How did Churchill communicate his needs to FDR?
30:14–34:52
6
What strategies did Churchill employ to persuade the US?
34:52–44:54