Winston Churchill He was born on his family’s farm, near Oxford, Englandon November 30, 1874. In his youth he attended directed the military school of Sandhurst, and after its completion it traveled all over the British Empire as a soldier and as a journalist. He went back to England in 1900, at the age of 26, having already published five books.
That same year, Winston Churchill Joined the House of Commons (one of the legislative chambers of Britain) for the Conservative Party. However, four years later he went over to the Liberal side. He highlighted his work for progressive social reforms in terms of working conditions and public health.
In 1911, Churchill assumed the position of First Lord of the Admiralty (similar to Secretary of the Navy). From this place, given the evidence of a Germany more and more warlike, Churchill began to prepare militarily for war. It was established Royal Naval Air Servicethe British fleet was modernized and technology was innovated by inventing one of the first war tanks.
Once the First World War, Churchill proposed the 1915 invasion of the peninsula Gallipoliin Turkey which was a real failure and led him to leave the Admiralty.
During the 1920s and 1930s, Churchill He went through different positions in the government, and in 1924 he rejoined the Conservatives. Beginning in 1933, he began to warn of the dangers of Nazism growing German, but was not taken into account.
When the bursting World War II, Winston Churchill was appointed Prime Minister in May 1940. In those times of great drama Churchill He did his best to keep British spirits high. He strategically he gave a very successful maneuver to achieve that USA provided them with war supplies, before the USA. would enter the war.
Your job as Prime Minister during the Second World War It has been considered fundamental, to the point of being seen as one of the main architects of the victory of the allies. However, British voters ousted the prime minister from office just two months after the surrender of Germany in 1945.
The last years of the biography of Winston Churchill they saw him primarily devoted to warning about the dangers of Soviet expansionism. He got a second term as Prime Minister between 1951 and 1955 in which he tried (unsuccessfully) to build a peaceful coexistence between East and West.
Winston Churchill He died in 1965, just a year after retiring from the Parliament.
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