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How Winston Churchill Changed The World

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Why should people be remembered? People should be remembered for their actions, personality, and overall thought on life. Winston Churchill had many amazing and terrible parts of his career and life.Winston Churchill impacted the world and should be remembered for his strategy, his novels, and his victories against extremely powerful forces. Winston Churchill is one of Britain’s greatest leaders,but everybody has to start small. Winston was born on November 7th, 1874 at the Duke of Marlbarough’s Palace. Strangely, he was born two months early because his mother fell while walking therefore causing his premature birth a few hours later. His father was Lord Randolph and his mother was Jeanette “Jennie” Jerome. Also, Winston’s brother Jack was born in 1880. At age eight, Winston knew what he wanted to be, a soldier and politician. Since his father was a politician, Jennie and Randolph were …show more content…

In 1900, he wrote three books about his war experiences, one of which is non-fiction. Because these books were so popular, it earned him $750,000 in today’s money, and even the prime minister enjoyed his books and invited him to tea. Later on, Churchill married Clementine Hozier on the 12th of September, 1908. The next year, they had their first child, Diane, in July. Earlier, Winston became an MP for Oldham and wanted to reduce poverty in England. In 1911, Churchill believed that Germany was going to start a war so he built up Britain’s navy as the Lord of Admiralty. Finally, in 1940, after being in politics for 40 years, Winston became prime minister. Because of this, he helped lead the U.K. to victory in WWII. Afterwards, Churchill painted and read. He popped in and out of politics until his death. Unfortunately, Winston Churchill died on the 29th of January, 1965, the same day as his father, from depression and a previous stroke. Winston had quite a few victories in his later years, but not without

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