Winston Churchill

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party for the Liberals. When the
Liberals came to power in 1905, Churchill entered the government as secretary of
state for the colonies. In 1908, the year of his marriage to Clementine Hosier,
he became a member of the cabinet as president of the Board of Trade. Winston's
political missions became more and more important, in 1910 he became a member of
the Admirality. In 1913-1914 Churchill completed British naval preparations for
war. During World War Churchhill made some fatal mistakes in war strategy. This
was one of the main reasons that he was removed from the Admirality when the
Conservatives (many of whom now detested him) joined the government in 1915.
After a period of active military service in France, he was re-elected in the
Parliment. He became minister of munitions under the prime minister David Lloyd
George. He subsequently served as secretary of state for war and air and for the
colonies and helped negotiate the treaty that created the Irish Free State. But
he ...

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was offered his old post of first lord of the
Admiralty by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Following the unsuccessfull
allied attempt to "remove" the Germans from Norway (for which Churchill had
large responsibility) Chamberlain determined to resign. Churchill replaced him
as prime minister as Germany invaded the Low Countries on May 10, 1940.

The prime minister Winston Churchill was largely responsible for many aspects of
war policy. He established personal relations of the highest value with U.S.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt who began to supply arms and weapons to Britain
immediately after the British army lost most of its equipment at Dunkerque (June
1940). In the late ...

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