HISTORY-----> SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL(1874 - 1965)
Thalabathi
This time i am taking you all to the World War II season....
Obviously if anyone is talking about World War II, two persons will
flash our mind..........
Those persons are none other than Adolf Hitler and Sir Winston
Churchill............
Here i am posting an interesting article about Sir Winston
Churchill..............
Hope you all will enjoy this post.................
Here is my post...............
Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Sir Winston Churchill Churchill was a politician and wartime prime
minister who led Britain to victory in World War Two.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at
Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. His father was the prominent Tory
politician, Lord Randolph Churchill. Churchill attended the Royal
Military College, Sandhurst, before embarking on an army career. He
saw action on the North West Frontier of India and in the Sudan. While
working as a journalist during the Boer War he was captured and made a
prisoner-of-war before escaping.
In 1900, Churchill became Conservative member of parliament for
Oldham. But he became disaffected with his party and in 1904 joined
the Liberal Party. When the Liberals won the 1905 election, Churchill
was appointed undersecretary at the Colonial Office. In 1908 he
entered the Cabinet as president of the Board of Trade, becoming home
secretary in 1910. The following year he became first lord of the
Admiralty. He held this post in the first months of World War One but
after the disastrous Dardanelles expedition, for which he was blamed,
he resigned. He joined the army, serving for a time on the Western
Front. In 1917, he was back in government as minister of munitions.
>From 1919 to 1921 he was secretary of state for war and air, and from
1924-1929 was chancellor of the exchequer.
The next decade were his 'wilderness years', in which his opposition
to Indian self-rule and his support for Edward VIII during the
'Abdication Crisis' made him unpopular, while his warnings about the
rise of Nazi Germany and the need for British rearmament were ignored.
When war broke out in 1939, Churchill became first lord of the
Admiralty. In May 1940, Neville Chamberlain resigned as prime minister
and Churchill took his place. His refusal to surrender to Nazi Germany
inspired the country. He worked tirelessly throughout the war,
building strong relations with US President Roosevelt while
maintaining a sometimes difficult alliance with the Soviet Union.
Churchill lost power in the 1945 post-war election but remained leader
of the opposition, voicing apprehensions about the Cold War (he
popularised the term 'Iron Curtain') and encouraging European and
trans-Atlantic unity. In 1951, he became prime minister again. He
resigned in 1955, but remained an MP until shortly before his death.
As well as his many political achievements, he left a legacy of an
impressive number of publications and in 1953 won the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
Churchill died on 24 January 1965 and was given a state funeral.
Source : www.bbc.co.uk
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