Winston Churchill Biography

Winston Churchill Biography Winston Churchill was one of the famous and greatest statesmen in the 20th century. He was born in 1874 to an aristocratic family. During his life, he served as a military leader and statesman and he later became one of the famous British writers winning Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 for his book about the history of the Second World War. He became prime minister of the United Kingdom twice and allied with the Soviet Union and the US to defeat the Nazi regime in Germany during the Second World War (Troitiño and Chochia, 2015, p67). Churchill left a complicated legacy as he is remembered for defeating the Nazi Party of Hitler’s dark regime. In the long career and life of Winston Churchill who spawned a substantial speeches, writing, communications and memoranda (David,C. and Roland,Q.2001). Churchill’s life has delivered many important speeches. His speech not only encourages the country to inspire people, but also expresses Churchill’s determination to never yield to the enemy. Despite his success, he failed when he decided to attack Turkey where he lost the war and resulted in the deaths of several New Zealanders and Australians. The campaign humiliated him and crippled him politically where he was excluded from War Council, dismissed from cabinet position, and not allowed to conduct any administration of the war. Therefore, in this work, this paper will describe Churchill’s biography including his success and an evaluation of his government. Churchill was born on the 30th day of November 1874 in Blenheim Palace at Oxfordshire. He was from a wealthy aristocratic family. Churchill achieved poor grades in class but had a passion of joining the military where he was recruited to Royal Cavalry in 1895. During the time, he served as a part-time journalist and a soldier that offered him the opportunity to travel to several countries including South Africa, Cuba, Egypt, and Afghanistan. In 1900, he joined politics and was elected Conservative MP for Oldham (Troitiño, 2017, p208). He abandoned his party in 1904 and spent the next decades being promoted to higher government ranks. Later, he became the first Admiralty at the time of the Gallipoli campaign that he created. Churchill made fatal decisions of attacking Turkey at the time and failed which affected his political career. He left Liberal Party and joined the Conservative Party and was elected as the Chancellor of the states Exchequer in 1924 when he proposed for Britain to join the Gold Standard. In 1929, he lost his seat to Tory and spent the next 11 years writing books and making speeches. He was against the Indian Independence and made warnings against a possible ally of Nazi Germany and this proved right in 1939 when the Second World War broke out. Churchill was elected the Prime Minister of the all-party coalition government in 1940 when Neville Chamberlain resigned from the office (Borthwick, Burch and Giddings, 2016, p274). He created a self-position of Minister for Defense which made him active in both diplomatic and administrative functions in continuing with the British war effort. He gave speeches during this period of hardship which improved the British morale. Once again he was sawn out of office in 1945 by Labor leader Clement Att...