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Winston S. Churchill Research Paper

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Christopher Reeve’s a famous actor once said. “ A hero is someone who, in spit of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answer, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.” This summarizes the life of Winston S. Churchill. He was a prominent figure during World War One and World War Two. Despite having failed in the publics eyes during the invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, he joined the fight in the trenches on the front lines during World War One, and after the war warned the British of the Nazi regime and became prime minister of England during World War Two. Churchill came from a long line of British conservative politicians, and military commanders, so he became a soldier and traveled around the British Empire as a journalist. In …show more content…

Consequently a new political power called the Nazi party and its leader, Adolf Hitler rose to power. Churchill recognized the increase in Nazi power and their blatant disregard for The Treaty of Paris. Churchill gave speeches to parliament and wrote articles warning Europe and the world of Hitler’s intentions. In a prophetic warning in one of his speeches, Churchill stated, “ I predict that the day will come when, at some point or other, on some issue or other, you will have to make a stand, and I pray to God that, when that day comes, we may not find through an unwise policy, that we have to make the stand alone” (Gilbert 216-217). Churchill believed that Hitler’s aggression could not be over exaggerated. He again warned the House of Commons that, “in two years time Germany’s army would be stronger than that of the French and ‘all the small nations will have fled from the League of Nations to try to come to terms with the Nazis’”(Gilbert 217). He also warned Franklin D. Roosevelt in December 1940, of the impending doom of Nazi Germany. Churchill expressed the British need for military supplies to fight the war. The Lend-Lease Bill introduced on January 10, 1941, gave the United States power to lend war material to countries, which affected the United States national defense. US senators in congress argued, “The defeat of Britain

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