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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great
Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, is born in
1874, at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England.
Churchill came from a prestigious family with a long history of military
service and joined the British Fourth Hussars upon his father’s death in
1895. During the next five years, he enjoyed an illustrious military
career, serving in India, the Sudan, and South Africa, and
distinguishing himself several times in battle. In 1899, he resigned his
commission to concentrate on his literary and political career and in
1900 was elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP from Oldham. In
1904, he joined the Liberals, serving in a number of important posts
before being appointed Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911,
where he worked to bring the British navy to a readiness for the war he
foresaw.
In 1915, in the second year of World War I, Churchill was held
responsible for the disastrous Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaigns, and
he was excluded from the war coalition government. He resigned and
volunteered to command an infantry battalion in France. However, in
1917, he returned to politics as a cabinet member in the Liberal
government of Lloyd George. From 1919 to 1921, he was secretary of state
for war and in 1924 returned to the Conservative Party, where two years
later he played a leading role in the defeat of the General Strike of
1926. Out of office from 1929 to 1939, Churchill issued unheeded
warnings of the threat of German and Japanese aggression.
After the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Churchill was called back
to his post as First Lord of the Admiralty and eight months later
replaced the ineffectual Neville Chamberlain as prime minister of a new
coalition government. In the first year of his administration, Britain
stood alone against Nazi Germany, but Churchill promised his country and
the world that the British people would “never surrender.ö He rallied
the British people to a resolute resistance and expertly orchestrated
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin into an alliance that eventually
crushed the Axis.
In July 1945, 10 weeks after Germany’s defeat, his Conservative
government suffered an electoral loss against Clement Attlee’s Labour
Party, and Churchill resigned as prime minister. He became leader of the
opposition and in 1951 was again elected prime minister. Two years
later, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and awarded the Nobel Prize
in Literature for his six-volume historical study of World War II and
for his political speeches. In 1955, he retired as prime minister but
remained in Parliament until 1964, the year before his death.
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