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A brief History of Sir Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill was born in Woodstock on November
30th, 1874 to Randolf Churchill who was a conservative Politian and
Jennie Jerome, the daughter of a New York Business man. Educated at
Harrow, Churchill then went to Sandhurst's Royal Military School.
Winston saw action in India and Sudan with the Fourth Hussars in 1895
and starting his long writing career by providing military reports to
the Telegraph alongside books such as The River war. Churchill left the
army in 1899 and started working for the Morning post as a war
correspondent. He was taken prisoner by the Boers in South Africa and
wrote London to Ladysmith after escaping.
In 1900 Churchill started his long and varied political carrier, which including Conservative MP and joining the Liberal Party after being disturbed by the lack of change by the Conservative party. The 12th September 1908 saw Churchill marry Clementine Ogilvy Spencer. Liberalism and the Social Problem was published in 1909. After this Churchill became Home Secretary and introduced reforms to the prison system and was also criticized for using British troops to keep order at the Welsh Miner's strike.
In 1911 the title of First Lord of the Admiralty was given to Churchill and he modernized the navy, set up the Royal Naval Air Service and even found time to take up flying lessons. From this point up until the Second World War Churchill’s life bounced between politics, the army and writing
In 1940 the Second World War had started and Churchill was given the post of First Lord of the Admiralty. Later that month Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany. Chamberlain resigned after 30 Conservatives voted against him and 60 others abstained. Churchill was appointed PM by George VI on 10th May, 1940. Later on that same day the German Army invaded Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. German forces entered France two days later. A coalition government was formed and leaders of the Labour Party were placed in key positions.
Churchill provided a strong leadership during the war but suffered defeats however, the majority of the House of Commons members supported him and the people loved him. This was one of the major factors of the long awaited victory, the love of the British public for their leader. Churchill was a complete strength to folk who suffered during the Blitz. D-Day landings did took place in June, 1944. In the 1945, the General Election saw Churchill's attempts to damage the up coming Labour government by comparing them with Nazi Germany backfired and Churchill was voted out of power and Attlee won by a landslide victory.
Churchill was then the leader of the opposition. He made his most famous Iron Curtain speech in 1946 while visiting the US at Fulton, Missouri. In August of this year he suffered his first of several strokes but the information was kept from the public and the Conservative Party kept him as leader. 1951 saw Churchill return to power. He finished the last of his six volumes of ‘The Second World War’ to which Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Sir Winston Churchill retired in 1955 due to a continuation of health deterioration and died on 24th January, 1965.