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
Winston Churchill, the son of Lord Randolph Churchill, became an officer in the 4th cavalry in 1894. Between 1895 and 1899 he served in Cuba, India and South Africa as a reporter. Churchill entered politics in 1900 and held many government posts until he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty
Churchill served as a soldier from 1896 to 1897. He also worked as a journalist in India. In 1898 he fought in the battle of Omdurman in Sudan. He was captured by the Boers and made a daring escape. Upon returning to England in
Churchill had faced many challenges and set backs all through his life before he became one of the most influential leaders in our modern history. Churchill was passed on by members of his own political affiliation and the British monarchy to be elected as a member of the house committee. He was only approached, during time of need; when British government realized the lack of the right candidate to engage and diffused the German hierarchy with their ever increasing threat of war. We face challenges all through our lives. We set goals, make mistake, and have failures. And then we only succeed by not fearing the failures,
Winston Churchill, being born on November 30, 1874 to Randolph Churchill, has a relatively normal childhood for an upper-class family. Mr. Churchill did struggle in school and has to take the entrance exam to the Royal Military Academy three times before passing and being accepted. Mr. Churchill has many great moments in his formative years and early adulthood, but where he truly shines is in his political career with his truly amazing speeches, such as the “This is our Finest Hour” speech, and in his dogged determination and fearless mindset when protecting his very own home and countrymen. The start of Mr. Churchill’s career has involved many things, such as switching parties multiple times to side with the winners or just because he did not entirely agree with the party’s leaders, but let us not forget the foreboding sense of failure that must have been felt after Mr.
Winston Spencer Churchill was born on November 30, 1874 in the United Kingdom. He was born to a family of wealth and his father an aristocrat. Winston’s grandfather gave Winston’s dad a position in the 7th duke of marlborough so Winston spent his childhood in Ireland. There he didn’t do good in school so he was sent to boarding school. Then on he decided that he wanted to pursue a military career. There he also did bad and failed three times before joining the British Royal military college. Afterward he did
For all his skill as a leader Churchill was viewed by some as a war monger. Throughout his life he supported the expansion of military, including calling
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” These encouraging words were spoken by none other than, Winston Churchill. Winston arrived only seven months and two weeks after his parents had exchanged vows on November 30, 1874, in Oxfordshire, England. He was born to Lord Randolph Churchill, the third son of the seventh duke and Jennie Jerome, a self-reliant New York aristocrat. When Winston was younger, he was recognized as a brainless boy, but he proved to be one of the most remarkable leaders of Britain. Though he was mostly known as a leader and prime minister, he was also a Nobel Prize winner. In 1953, he won a Nobel Prize in literature for an exceptional biography he wrote entitled The History of the Second World War. Also, in 1963, President Kennedy bestowed on him an honorary citizenship of the United States. During Churchill’s life, he portrayed leadership, magnanimity, and emotional resilience that led him to several accomplishments, and without a doubt, made him an unforgettable legend.
¨But it is sure and certain that if we persevere-and we shall persevere-we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.¨ In May 16, 1942, Winston Churchill visited the city of Leeds, England, which was bombarded by the German air force. During his visit, he delivered an enthralling speech that inspired an aura of tenacity towards citizens and soldiers to not succumb to the reign of Nazi Germany. Sir Winston Churchill was a prime minister, politician, speechmaker, and author who charmed the citizens of the British Empire when they needed him the most. In his lifetime, Churchill held a number of positions that rendered him to be a loyal servant to his country.
In truth, Churchill was all of these. He lived a life in a timespan where the world went through almost unbelievable amounts of technological, social, and military change, and he adapted with each new day. He sought out
Winston Churchill went through many events and positions which made him the Prime Minister who ended WWII for Great Britain. Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born to an aristocratic family on November 30, 1874 in England. Winston attended 3 different schools and failed two of them. In 1888 at his third school he joined the Harrow Rifle Corps in the military. It took him three tries on the exam to graduate from the British Royal Military College. These events of him going through different schools strengthened his perseverance and helped him to become the great leader of Britain. In 1885 he joined the Fourth Hussars and served in the Indian northwest frontier and the Sudan. In 1899 Winston left the army and worked as a war correspondent
Winston Churchill said “if you 're going through hell, keep going” which is an excellent representation of how his life went, and how this moto helped him to succeed. In his childhood he struggled with family life and school, but he kept going and ended up being a very successful Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Churchill also said “success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm”, he used this in his own life when he did not give up when getting into military school after failing twice before. Winston Churchill lived a life worth talking about; in this paper his early life, military time, time in power, and last years will be discussed.
As a young adult, Churchill showed fortitude and determination. Interested in the military, he applied to the Royal Military College.
Churchill got his conservative politics from being raised in the Victorian era Britain, where he learned to be ambitious, and have a strong sense of independence (Ben-Moshe 8). This unrelenting ambition Churchill obtained would earn him his reputation, and lead to his loss in the 1945 election. Churchill practiced conservative politics, because he lived in an era when Conservatives ruled parliament (Havighurst 63). At the turn of the century, however, conservative practices would soon become outdated. It was with the emergence of the Liberal Party, that public opinion
Churchill’s actions represent how he was a man that cared about others, wanted world peace, and
After Churchill's tenure in India, he ran for a seat in Parliament. He spoke well, but the opposition he faced was just too strong. He lost his first try at an electoral office. Churchill ran for political office many times after this initial failure. In 1901, he won a seat in the House of Commons. From 1908-1939, he held many political offices. Some include: First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, Secretary for War and Air, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. All of these positions pale when held in comparison to his service as Prime Minister. He held this position twice during his life: once during World War II from 1940-1945, and again from 1951-1955. (Bra*censored*, Internet)