During the Second World War, President Franklin Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill exchanged hundreds of cables and held two summit meetings, coordinating the vast allied effort to defeat Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Panelists will discuss why the peaceful new international order that the three agreed to establish after the conflict turned instead into the Cold War.

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A livestream will be available during the event. 

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PANELISTS

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David Kennedy
David M. Kennedy is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus. Professor Kennedy received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1988. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in history in 2000 for Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War

 

 


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Stephen Kotkin
Stephen Kotkin, in addition to being a Hoover senior fellow, is the Birkelund Professor of History and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and History Department of Princeton University, where he has taught since 1989. 

 

 

 

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Andrew Roberts
Andrew Roberts is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Roberts first took a first in modern history from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he is an Honorary Senior Scholar and a PhD. 

 

 

 

MODERATOR

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Peter Robinson
Peter M. Robinson is the Murdoch Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he writes about business and politics, edits Hoover's quarterly journal, the Hoover Digest, and hosts Hoover's video series program, Uncommon Knowledge.

 

 

 

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