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Churchill is Born
Winston’s father was the British Lord Randolph Churchill, the youngest son of John, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. His mother was the American Jennie Jerome. Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, at the Duke of Marlborough’s large palace, Blenheim Read about Churchill as a child -
School Days
On April 17, 1888, Winston entered Harrow School, a boy’s school near London. Winston found his years at Harrow challenging. He was not thought of as a good student. Winston wrote, “I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days.” However, Winston’s ability to memorize lines was clearly apparent while at Harrow. Winston entered a competition and won a school prize for reciting from memory 1,200 lines from Macaulay’s, long poem Lays of Ancient Rome. -
Parliament - the early years
At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions.
Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government.
During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign, which he had sponsored, caused his departure from government.
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Churchill marries
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Churchill becomes Home Secretary
Following the 1910 General Election Churchill became Home Secretary. Churchill introduced several reforms to the prison system, including the provision of lecturers and concerts for prisoners and the setting up of special after-care associations to help convicts after they had served their sentence. However, Churchill was severely criticized for using troops to maintain order during a Welsh miners's strike. -
First World War begins
World War 1 started on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. After the outbreak of First World War Churchill supported the Dardanelles Campaign, an operation against the Turks. He had encouraged the development of such weapons as the tank, and was generally credited with the British Fleet's preparedness in August 1914. History of First World War -
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The Wilderness Years
Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. From 1929 to 1939 Churchill was denied office by a succession of Prime Ministers, alienated by his campaigns against the India Bill, granting local self-government to parts of India) and criticizing their refusal to rearm the county in the face of Hitler's aggressions. -
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The Wilderness Years End
From 1929 to 1939 Churchill was denied office by a succession of Prime Ministers, alienated by his campaigns against the India Bill, granting local self-government to parts of India) and criticizing their refusal to rearm the county in the face of Hitler's aggressions. When war came as he had predicted in September 1939, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain asked him back, and he again served as First Lord of the Admiralty until he replaced Chamberlain as Prime Minister in May 1940. -
Prime Minister for first time
Churchill's inspirational speeches when Britain had little else to fight with roused the nation and convinced his colleagues to fight on even after Hitler's armies had conquered France and dominated most of Western Europe. After the Soviet Union and the United States entered the war in 1941, he worked to build what he called a "Grand Alliance," traveling tens of thousands of miles to meet with allies and coordinate military strategy. -
The war ends
Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day or VE Day) commemorates 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries; 7 May 1945), the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945 Read more about Second World War -
Prime Minister for second time
Having lost the election to Labour in 1945 six years later, in another general election, the Conservative Party won the majority of seats. With this win, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain for his second term in 1951. On April 5, 1955, at age 80, Churchill resigned as Prime Minister. -
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Winston Churchill dies
Upon his death, Elizabeth II granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of world statesmen ever. Named the Greatest Briton of all-time in a 2002 poll, Churchill is widely regarded as being among the most influential persons in British history.
