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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (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.
Russia would have been defenseless against a nuclear strike at the time of the Churchill's proposal, since the Soviets did not obtain the atomic bomb until 1949. [5] Churchill's personal physician, Lord Moran, recalled that he had already advocated a nuclear strike against the Soviets during a conversation in 1946. [6]
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War, died on 24 January 1965, aged 90. [1] [2] [3] His was the first state funeral in the United Kingdom for a non-member of the royal family since Edward Carson's in 1935.
Winston Churchill received numerous honours and awards throughout his career as a British Army officer, statesman and author.. Perhaps the highest of these was the state funeral held at St Paul's Cathedral, after his body had lain in state for three days in Westminster Hall, [1] an honour rarely granted to anyone other than a British monarch.
Churchill with US ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. 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.
Winston Spencer Churchill [1] (10 October 1940 – 2 March 2010), generally known as Winston Churchill, [nb 1] was an English Conservative politician and a grandson ...
The Yalta Conference (Russian: Ялтинская конференция, romanized: Yaltinskaya konferentsiya), held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.
Churchill in 1942. In 20th century politics, Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was one of the world's most influential and significant figures. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, when he led the country to victory in the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.