Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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"This is your victory. It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land. In all our long history we have never seen a greater day than this. Everyone, man or woman, has done their best. Everyone has tried. Neither the long years, nor the dangers, nor the fierce attacks of the enemy, have in any way weakened the independent resolve of the British nation.  God bless you all. ---Winston Churchill 1946
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Churchills Life

• Winston Churchill enjoyed one of the
  longest and most interesting lives of any person
  who has ever lived. From his birth at Blenheim
  Palace on November 30th, 1874, to his death at
  Hyde Park Gate in London on January 24, 1965, his
  life was one of action, controversy, setback and
  achievement. It was never dull.

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Churchills Life

• Family
• Politics
• Literature
• Art

• Honors

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FAMILY

• Father Randolph Churchill, a Conservative
  politician
• Mother Jennie Jerome, the daughter of Leonard
  Jerome, a New York businessman.

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POLITICS

• 1900Conservative MP for Oldham
• 1906Under-Secretary of State
• 1908President of the Board of Trade.
• 1910...Home Secretary
• 1911First Lord of the Admiralty
• 1912Royal Naval Air Service Air Department
• 1915Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• 1919...Minister of War and Air
• 1921Colonial Secretary

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POLITICS

• Defeated by E.D. Morel at Dundee in 1922 General
  Election
• Successfully elected to represent Epping in the
  1924 General Election
• Stanley Baldwin, the leader of the new
  Conservative administration, appointed Churchill
  as Chancellor of the Exchequer
• In 1929, Churchill lost office

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POLITICSChurchill in World War ?

• On the outbreak of the Second World War
  Churchill was appointed First Lord of the
  Admiralty and on 4th April 1940 became chairman
  of the Military Coordinating Committee.
• In May, 1940, he became Prime Minister
  and Minister of Defense and remained in office
  until 1945.
• After Pearl Harbor Churchill worked
  closely with Franklin D. Roosevelt to ensure
  victory over Germany and Japan. He was also a
  loyal ally of the Soviet Union after Adolf Hitler
  launched Operation Barbarossa in June, 1941.
• Churchill held important meetings with
  Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at
  Teheran (November, 1943) and Yalta (February,
  1945).

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POLITICSThe End of Churchills Political Life

• He took over the premiership again in the
  Conservative victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955
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• He remained a Member of Parliament until
  the general election of 1964, when he did not
  seek re-election.

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LITERATURE

• Churchill's literary career began with campaign
  reports The Story of the Malakand Field Force
  (1898) and The River War (1899)
• 1900, he published his only novel, Savrola
• 1906, his first major work, the biography of his
  father, Lord Randolph Churchill
• 1933-1938, his other famous biography, the life
  of his great ancestor, The Duke of Marlborough
• 1923-1929, Churchill's history of the First World
  War The World Crisis
• 1930, an autobiographical account of his youth,
  My Early Life
• 1948-1953/54, his memoirs of the Second World War
• 1956-1958, History of the English-speaking
  Peoples
• His magnificent oratory The Unrelenting Struggle
  (1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945), and
  Victory (1946).

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ART

• Churchill, a gifted amateur painter, wrote
  Painting as a Pastime (1948).

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HONORS

• 1953, Churchill was awarded
• the Nobel Prize for Literature.
• 1953, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on him the
  dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the
  insignia of the Order of the Garter.
• 1963, President Kennedy conferred on him the
  honorary citizenship of the United States.