Winston Churchill

(noun)

A British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55).

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Examples of Winston Churchill in the following topics:

  • War Aims and Strategy

    • Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin), together with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, cooperated informally on a plan in which American and British troops concentrated in the West; Soviet troops fought on the Eastern front; and Chinese, British, and American troops fought in Asia and the Pacific.
    • Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
    • Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943.
    • Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Russian Embassy during the Tehran Conference to discuss the European Theater in 1943.
    • Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of China (left), Roosevelt (middle), and Winston Churchill (right) at the Cairo Conference in December of 1943.

  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
    • Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe (specifically Poland).
    • Churchill alone pushed for free elections in Poland.
    • Yalta summit in February 1945 with (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
    • Analyze the controversies of the Yalta Conference, and the individual agendas of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

  • The Tehran Meeting

    • The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in 1943 in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
    • Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from November 28 to December 1, 1943 in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran .
    • Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on Operation Overlord and general war policy.
    • Furthermore, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed that the nations in league with the Axis powers would be divided into territories to be controlled by the USSR, the U.S., and the UK.
    • Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Russian Embassy during the Tehran Conference.

  • Early Public Opinion Research and Polling

    • This contrasted with virtually all other commentators, who expected a victory for the Conservative Party led by Winston Churchill.

  • Alliteration

    • --Winston Churchill on the German invasion of Russia

  • Responding to the Preposterous

    • Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: Winston, if you were my husband I should flavor your coffee with poison.
    • Churchill to Lady Astor: Madam, if I were your husband I should drink it.
    • When it comes to items 1-3 in the first column, I'd love to possess Winston Churchill's rapier wit.
    • One evening at a party, for instance, a woman contemptuously noted that Churchill was drunk.

  • The Defeat of Japan

    • The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented by Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill (who was later replaced by Clement Attlee when the Labor Party won the British elections), and Harry S.
    • In addition to the Potsdam Agreement, which focused on the post-war order in Europe, on 26 July, Churchill, Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China (the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan) issued the Potsdam Declaration which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan during World War II in Asia.
    • The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S.

  • Repetition and Parallelism

    • We shall go on to the end,we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. " - Winston Churchill

  • The Battle of the Atlantic

    • The name "Battle of the Atlantic" was coined by Winston Churchill in February 1941.
    • Winston Churchill later stated:

  • FDR's Third Term

    • Roosevelt and Churchill conducted a highly secret bilateral meeting in Argentia, Newfoundland.
    • Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet during Roosevelts third term, in 1941.