Presentation

Margit Uiboaid

Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

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1874-1965

He was...

       Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice 1940-1945 1951-1955 Statesman and orator Artist Writer British first lord of the admiralty 1911-1915, 1939-1940

He got...

 Nobel Prize in Literature 1953  Made honorary US citizen 1963

Early years

 His father was a Tory politcian  His mother a daughter of an American millionaire  Was born 2 months premature   Had one brother Didn’t have close relationship with his parents but became close to his nanny, called her Woomany

He said...

 She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly - but at a distance. Churchill on his mother  I then had one of the three or four long intimate conversations with him which are all I can boast. Churchill on his father

Problem

 He had a speech impediment  Worked hard to overcome it  Finally stated that this is no hindrance  It is said that he excelled because of, rather than in spite of, his cluttering

He said...

 Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

Marriage

    Got married to Clementine Hozier in 1908, he was 34 then They had 5 children Their youngest daughter Mary is still alive It was a life-long romance

Career

 Worked as a war journalist during Boer War, was captured and made a prisoner-of-war before escaping  Served both as a Conservative and a Liberal MP  In 1940 became a British Prime Minister who inspired people with his brilliant speeches through these difficult times

He said...

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

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...

Holocaust

  Churchill was the one who spoke against holocaust, called it the cruelest forms of persecution To help refugees, in March 1944 Churchill by-passed the pre-war British government's restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine

Churchill as a writer

 His topic was history  As with all Churchill's works, they have nothing to say about economic or social history  These are very personal writings about war and politics

Death

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Churchill

died on 24 January 1965 and was given a state funeral  He died at the age of 91

Materials used:

 http://

www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sir_W inston_Churchill/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genoc ide