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Hace 3 días · Winston Churchill. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill [a] (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.
Hace 3 días · prime minister of United Kingdom. Also known as: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Written by. Herbert G. Nicholas. Rhodes Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Oxford, 1969–78. Author of Britain and the U.S.A. and others. Herbert G. Nicholas. Fact-checked by. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- As prime minister (1940–45) during most of World War II, Winston Churchill rallied the British people and led the country from the brink of defeat...
- Through his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, a Tory politician, Winston was directly descended from John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, the he...
- At Harrow School, Winston Churchill’s conspicuously poor academic record provoked his father’s decision to enter him into an army career. On his th...
Hace 6 días · Churchill used the speech to emphasize the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “ iron curtain ” across Europe.
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Hace 6 días · Given that the shelves of those historians who specialise in the origins of the Second World War are figuratively groaning under the weight of works covering the topic of appeasement, it may come as a surprise to some when reading the preface to Appeasing Hitler that “while books on the Second World War have multiplied over the past 20 years, the build-up and causes of that catastrophe have ...
Hace 3 días · Beautiful, rich, and powerful, the Churchills dominated world politics for generations-but like every family, they too have their secrets. Winston Churchill is arguably the most famous Briton, but a shroud of mystery still surrounds him and his family-Winston's mother, Jennie had a secret affair with the Prince of Wales, later King ...
Hace 1 día · Austria was never part of the Warsaw Pact. During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political and later physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
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