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Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill[a] KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (during the Second World War) and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from 1922 to 1924, he was a member of ...
Crowds wait for Churchill outside the U.S. Capitol (Washington Star) Winston Churchill 's first address to the U.S. Congress was a 30-minute World War II -era radio-broadcast speech made in the chamber of the United States Senate on December 26, 1941. The prime minister of the United Kingdom addressed a joint meeting of the bicameral ...
This was their finest hour. " This was their finest hour " was a speech delivered by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on 18 June 1940, just over a month after he took over as Prime Minister at the head of an all-party coalition government. It was the third of three speeches which he gave during the period of the ...
Later life of Winston Churchill. Churchill making a speech in Uxbridge, Middlesex, during the 1945 general election, which his party lost. Winston Churchill 's Conservative Party lost the July 1945 general election, forcing him to step down as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. For six years he served as the Leader of the Opposition.
Winston Churchill in politics, 1900–1939. This article documents the career of Winston Churchill in Parliament from its beginning in 1900 to the start of his term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in World War II. Churchill entered Parliament as member for Oldham in 1900 as a Conservative. He changed parties in 1904 after increasing ...
1940 British war cabinet crisis. In May 1940, during the Second World War, the British war cabinet was split over whether to discuss peace terms with Germany or to continue fighting. Opinion on the side of continuing with the war was led by the prime minister, Winston Churchill, while the side preferring negotiation was led by the Foreign ...
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U.S. President Harry S. Truman greeting British Prime Minister Winston Churchill upon his arrival at Washington, D.C. (1952) Winston Churchill's address to Congress of January 17, 1952 was the British Prime Minister 's third and last address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress, following his World War II-era speeches in 1941 and in 1943.