Who came up with Operation Unthinkable?
Operation Unthinkable was a code-name of two related plans of a conflict between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. Both were ordered by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1945 and developed by the British Armed Forces’ Joint Planning Staff at the end of World War II in Europe.
Was the Lend Lease Act successful?
Lend-Lease effectively ended the United States’ pretense of neutrality which had been enshrined in the Neutrality Acts of the 1930s. It was a decisive step away from non-interventionist policy and toward open support for the Allies.
What was operation unacceptable?
Operation: Unthinkable was the code name for the operation to remove the Red Army’s presence within former Nazi Germany. It was ordered to be created by British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. This plan was soon approved following the defeat of the Empire of Japan by American President Harry S. Truman and French President Charles de Gaulle.
What were the two possible results of Operation unoubtedly?
In the eyes of the planners of Operation Unthinkable, there were two possible results of starting hostilities with the Soviet Union. These were: Quick Success and Total War. Quick Success would rely upon the political turmoil and low morale of the Soviet Union.
Why did the Cambridge Five do operation unacceptable?
According to Edinburgh University professor John Erickson, Operation Unthinkable helps to explain why he did it. If the plans of the operation had been transmitted to Moscow by the Cambridge Five, that would explain the sudden orders to regroup and prepare for defence, however, it is just as possible that it was Soviet mistrust of Western Allies.
When was the unacceptable operation in Iraq revealed?
And even when it was finally revealed in 1998 it was received as absurd and incredible and made hardly any impact on world opinion. With the name Unthinkable the operation was probably conceived as a hypothetical war scenario that had to be treated as confidential.