Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"This is your victory. It is the victory of the cause of freedom in every land. In all our long history we have never seen a greater day than this. Everyone, man or woman, has done their best. Everyone has tried. Neither the long years, nor the dangers, nor the fierce attacks of the enemy, have in any way weakened the independent resolve of the British nation.  God bless you all.”

---Winston Churchill 1946

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Quotes•A joke is a very serious thing.•A prisoner of war is a man who tries to

kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

•A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

•However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

•History is written by the victors.

Churchill’s Life Winston Churchill enjoyed

one of the longest and most interesting lives of any person who has ever lived. From his birth at Blenheim Palace on November 30th, 1874, to his death at Hyde Park Gate in London on January 24, 1965, his life was one of action, controversy, setback and achievement. It was never dull.

Churchill’s Life•Family

•Politics

•Literature

•Art

•Honors

FAMILYFather: Randolph Churchill, a Conservative

politicianMother: Jennie Jerome, the daughter of

Leonard Jerome, a New York businessman.

•The Right Honorable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst.

POLITICS•1900…Conservative MP for Oldham•1906…Under-Secretary of State •1908…President of the Board of Trade.•1910...Home Secretary •1911…First Lord of the Admiralty •1912…Royal Naval Air Service & Air

Department •1915…Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster•1919...Minister of War and Air •1921…Colonial Secretary

POLITICS•Defeated by E.D. Morel at Dundee in 1922

General Election•Successfully elected to represent Epping in

the 1924 General Election•Stanley Baldwin, the leader of the new

Conservative administration, appointed Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer

•In 1929, Churchill lost office

Churchill in World War Ⅱ On the outbreak of the Second World War Churchill was

appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and on 4th April 1940 became chairman of the Military Coordinating Committee.

In May, 1940, he became Prime Minister and Minister of Defense and remained in office until 1945.

After Pearl Harbor Churchill worked closely with Franklin D. Roosevelt to ensure victory

over Germany and Japan. He was also a loyal ally of the Soviet Union after Adolf Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in June, 1941. Churchill held important meetings with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin at Teheran (November, 1943) and Yalta (February, 1945).

POLITICSThe End of Churchill’s Political Life He took over the premiership again in

the Conservative victory of 1951 and resigned in 1955 .

He remained a Member of Parliament until the general election of 1964, when he did not seek re-election.

LITERATURE• Churchill's literary career began with campaign reports:

The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) and The River War (1899)

• 1900, he published his only novel, Savrola • 1906, his first major work, the biography of his father,

Lord Randolph Churchill • 1933-1938, his other famous biography, the life of his

great ancestor, The Duke of Marlborough• 1923-1929, Churchill's history of the First World War

The World Crisis• 1930, an autobiographical account of his youth, My

Early Life • 1948-1953/54, his memoirs of the Second World War• 1956-1958, History of the English-speaking Peoples • His magnificent oratory: The Unrelenting Struggle

(1942), The Dawn of Liberation (1945), and Victory (1946).

ART•Churchill, a gifted amateur painter, wrote

Painting as a Pastime (1948).

HONORS•1953, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.•1953, Queen Elizabeth II conferred on

him the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter.

•1963, President Kennedy conferred on him the honorary citizenship of the United States.