enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Winston Churchill in the Second World War - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill_in_the...

   Churchill with US ambassador Joseph Kennedy in 1939. On 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany following the outbreak of the Second World War, Chamberlain appointed Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty, the same position he had held at the beginning of the First World War. As such he was a member of Chamberlain's war cabinet.

3. The Blitz - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz

   The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom for eight months from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941 during the Second World War. [4]The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the Luftwaffe and the Royal ...

4. Delivery After Raid - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_After_Raid

   Delivery After Raid (1940). Delivery After Raid, also popularly known as The London Milkman, is a black and white photograph taken by Fred Morley on 9 October 1940. [1] The image shows a milkman making his delivery along a street with buildings destroyed by German bombers during the Blitz in Holborn, Central London.

5. The History Behind Blitz - AOL

   www.aol.com/history-behind-blitz-203629140.html

   How children were evacuated during the Blitz. A small boy with his luggage as he left London for the country with other evacuees on July 5 1940. Imperial War Museum. George, the little boy in the ...

6. Winston Churchill's address to Congress (1941) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill's_address...

   Churchill would address the Parliament of Canada four days later. [3] Churchill was the second non-American head of government to address Congress; the first was Kalakaua, King of Hawaii, in 1874. [6] In addition to the 1941 appearance, Churchill returned to Capitol Hill to address Congress again in 1943 and in 1952. [7]

7. We shall fight on the beaches - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_shall_fight_on_the_beaches

   Winston Churchill took over as Prime Minister on 10 May 1940, eight months after the outbreak of World War II in Europe.He had done so as the head of a multiparty coalition government, which had replaced the previous government (led by Neville Chamberlain) as a result of dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war, demonstrated by the Norway debate on the Allied evacuation of Southern Norway.

8. What Churchill Really Thought of His Enemies - AOL

   www.aol.com/churchill-really-thought-enemies...

   Marshal Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) and Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) together at the Livedia Palace in Yalta, where they were both present for the conference in 1945.

9. Birmingham Blitz - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Blitz

   The Tree of Life memorial dedicated to the victims of the Blitz in Birmingham. Sculpted by Lorenzo Quinn, it was unveiled in the Bull Ring by Councillor John Hood on 8 October 2005. Several service people were decorated for their heroism during the blitz. They include: Charity Bick, GM [18] George Inwood, GC [19] William Mosedale, GC [20]