The Right Honorable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill was considered as one of the greatest and most influential politician on the 20th century. Winston Churchill was also a very profound writer; he won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his historical writing. Winston Churchill was in the army since the Second Boer War up to the end of WWII—of which he led to victory—showing his great skill in different types of warfare.
Winston Churchill was born on November 30th, 1874 in England of the famous Spencer family. After Churchill left Harrow in 1893, he applied to attend the Royal Academy Military in Sandhurst. It took him three attempts to pass the admittance examination, but Churchill graduated eight out of 150 students and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant immediately. Churchill saw combat with the Malakand Field Force on the Northwest Frontier, at the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan and during the Second Boer War in South Africa. During this period he also gained fame, and not a small amount of notoriety, as a correspondent. At the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, Churchill held numerous political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary during the Liberal governments. In the First World War Churchill served in numerous positions, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air.
On the outbreak of WWII, Churchill was appointed as the First Lord of Admiralty. On the 10 of May 1940, King George VI appointed him as the Prime Minister of Britain after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. He was against the policy of appeasement, the Munich agreement. This was one of the reasons that the British people didn’t like him as much. He thought that Hitler couldn’t be trusted and that appeasing him was not a long term solution to keep the peace. Appeasement just made Britain look weak and gave Hitler the confidence to step up his demands. In September 1939, the war broke out and he was proved to be right.
Although Churchill's role in World War II had generated him much support from the British population, he was defeated in the 1945 election. Many reasons for this have been given, key among them being that a desire for post-war reform was widespread amongst the population and that the man who had led Britain in war was not seen as the man to lead the nation in peace. For five years he was to serve as the Leader of the Opposition. During these years Churchill continued to have an impact on world affairs. After Labor's defeat in the General Election of 1951, Churchill again became Prime Minister. His third government—after the wartime national government and the brief caretaker government of 1945 — would last until his resignation in 1955. His domestic priorities in his last government were overshadowed by a series of foreign policy crises, which were partly the result of the continued decline of British military and imperial prestige and power.
In June 1953, at the age of 78, Churchill suffered from a stroke, but he recovered afterwards. However, on 15 January 1965, Churchill suffered another stroke, this time a severe cerebral thrombosis that left him gravely ill. He died at his home nine days later, at age 90, shortly after eight o'clock on the morning of Sunday 24 January 1965, coincidentally 70 years to the day after his father's death.
Sir Winston Churchill was considered as one of the greatest and most influential politician on the 20th century. Winston Churchill was also a very profound writer; he won a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 for his historical writing. Winston Churchill was in the army since the Second Boer War up to the end of WWII—of which he led to victory—showing his great skill in different types of warfare.
Winston Churchill was born on November 30th, 1874 in England of the famous Spencer family. After Churchill left Harrow in 1893, he applied to attend the Royal Academy Military in Sandhurst. It took him three attempts to pass the admittance examination, but Churchill graduated eight out of 150 students and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant immediately. Churchill saw combat with the Malakand Field Force on the Northwest Frontier, at the Battle of Omdurman in the Sudan and during the Second Boer War in South Africa. During this period he also gained fame, and not a small amount of notoriety, as a correspondent. At the forefront of the political scene for almost sixty years, Churchill held numerous political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade and Home Secretary during the Liberal governments. In the First World War Churchill served in numerous positions, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air.
On the outbreak of WWII, Churchill was appointed as the First Lord of Admiralty. On the 10 of May 1940, King George VI appointed him as the Prime Minister of Britain after the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. He was against the policy of appeasement, the Munich agreement. This was one of the reasons that the British people didn’t like him as much. He thought that Hitler couldn’t be trusted and that appeasing him was not a long term solution to keep the peace. Appeasement just made Britain look weak and gave Hitler the confidence to step up his demands. In September 1939, the war broke out and he was proved to be right.
Although Churchill's role in World War II had generated him much support from the British population, he was defeated in the 1945 election. Many reasons for this have been given, key among them being that a desire for post-war reform was widespread amongst the population and that the man who had led Britain in war was not seen as the man to lead the nation in peace. For five years he was to serve as the Leader of the Opposition. During these years Churchill continued to have an impact on world affairs. After Labor's defeat in the General Election of 1951, Churchill again became Prime Minister. His third government—after the wartime national government and the brief caretaker government of 1945 — would last until his resignation in 1955. His domestic priorities in his last government were overshadowed by a series of foreign policy crises, which were partly the result of the continued decline of British military and imperial prestige and power.
In June 1953, at the age of 78, Churchill suffered from a stroke, but he recovered afterwards. However, on 15 January 1965, Churchill suffered another stroke, this time a severe cerebral thrombosis that left him gravely ill. He died at his home nine days later, at age 90, shortly after eight o'clock on the morning of Sunday 24 January 1965, coincidentally 70 years to the day after his father's death.
Bibliography
· http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page134.asp
· winstonchurchill.org/
· nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/churchill-bio.html
· www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml
· www.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_churchill.html
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