Clement Attlee

(noun)

A British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, taking over from Winston Churchill right at the end of World War II.

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Examples of Clement Attlee in the following topics:

  • The Defeat of Japan

    • The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented by Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill (who was later replaced by Clement Attlee when the Labor Party won the British elections), and Harry S.
    • The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S.
    • In the photo:  Stalin, Truman, and Attlee at Potsdam.

  • The Potsdam Conference

    • The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S.
    • Stalin, Churchill, and Truman—as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's defeat of the Conservatives—gathered to decide how to administer the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May (V-E Day).
    • The "Big Three": Clement Attlee, Harry S.

  • War Aims and Strategy

    • They were represented by Stalin,  Churchill and Clement Attlee (who at the time replaced Churchill after his Labor party won the 1945 general election in the UK), and President Harry S.

  • The Yalta Conference

    • It had been preceded by the Tehran Conference in 1943, and was followed by the Potsdam Conference in July 1945, which was attended by Stalin, Churchill (who was replaced halfway through by the newly elected British Prime Minister Clement Attlee) and Harry S.

  • Origins of the Cold War

    • UK Prime Minister Clement Attlee, U.S.

  • Socialism

    • In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Francis Beckett states: "the government... wanted what would become known as a mixed economy".

  • Rome and the Papal States

    • Rome reached the highest point of splendor under Pope Julius II (1503–1513) and his successors Leo X and Clement VII, both members of the Medici family.

  • Post-Painterly Abstraction

    • The term was first used by the art critic Clement Greenberg as the title for an exhibit he curated for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1964.
    • The 31 artists who participated in Clement Greenberg's LACMA exhibit included Walter Darby Bannard, Jack Bush, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Friedel Dzubas, Paul Feeley, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Nicholas Krushenick, Alexander Liberman, Morris Louis, Arthur Fortescue McKay, Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Ray Parker, David Simpson, Albert Stadler, Frank Stella, Mason Wells, Emerson Woelffer, and a number of other American and Canadian artists who were becoming well known in the 1960s.

  • Mexican Muralism

    • The three most influential muralists from the 20th century are Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros, often referred to as “los tres grandes” (the three great ones).
    • Mural by José Clemente Orozco painted in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico between 1948 and 1949.
    • Compare and contrast the works of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Siqueiros.

  • The Western Schism

    • Robert took the name Clement VII and reestablished a papal court in Avignon.
    • Archbishops loyal to Benedict XIII subsequently elected Antipope Benedict XIV (Bernard Garnier), and three followers simultaneously elected Antipope Clement VIII, but the Western Schism was by then practically over.
    • Clement VIII resigned in 1429 and apparently recognized Martin V.