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Sir Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill. Lukáš Holba, I4.B. Winston Churchill - Life. Born on 30 th November 1874  at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire (UK) The son of Lord Randolph Churchill (politician) and the American heiress Jennie Jerome

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Sir Winston Churchill

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  1. Sir Winston Churchill Lukáš Holba, I4.B

  2. Winston Churchill - Life • Born on 30th November 1874  at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire (UK) • The son of Lord Randolph Churchill (politician) and the American heiress Jennie Jerome • Educated at three independent schools: St George's School in Ascot, Berkshire, followed by Brunswick School in Hove, near Brighton  and then at Harrow School on 17th April 1888 • Studied also at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst → army career •  Worked as a journalist during the Boer War → captured → famous escape • 1900 - Conservative member of parliament for Oldham • 1904 - joined the Liberal Party • 1910 – became Home secretary • 1911 – appointed First Lord of the Admiralty

  3. Winston Churchill - Life • 1915 - left the war cabinet after failure at the battle of Gallipoli → joined the army on the Western front (until 1917) • Returned to the government in 1917 as Minister of Munitions, then became Secretary for War and Air and Colonial Secretary • 1924 – re-elected to Parliament → joined the Conservative Party again → 1924-1919 - served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (equivalent to Treasury Secretary) • Unpopular after being against Indian self-rule and after supporting Edward VIII during the 'Abdication Crisis' •  His warnings about the rise of Nazi Germany were ignored • After the beginning of the WW II became again First Lord of Admiralty • 1940 – replaced Neville Chamberlain as Prime Minister • Worked to build what he called a 'Grand Alliance' (with  the Soviet Union and the United States)

  4. Winston Churchill – Life 3 • 1945 – Germany collapsed → 8th May = Victory in Europe Day • Defeat in 1945 elections → the Leader of the Opposition • 1951-1955 – became Prime Minister again • 1953 – received the Nobel Prize in literature (especially for his six -edition set The Second World War) • Retired from the government in 1955 due to poor physical condition • 24th January 1965 – died in London →  a state funeral service was held at St Paul‘s Cathedral • 2002 – won BBC poll of the '100 Greatest Britons'

  5. Winston Churchill – Famous quotes • Lady Nancy Astor:If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee!Sir Winston Churchill:And if I were your husband I would drink it! • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. • From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.  • Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk, and what's more, you are disgustingly drunk.Sir Winston Churchill: Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.

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