Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

• History will be kind to me for I intend to write
  it.
• by Tereza Lišková

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History Check I1874-1900

• Queen Victoria (1837-1901)
• Prime Ministers Gladstone, Disraeli
• No. of Men in army GB113 000, RUS
• 3 400 000, GER 2 800 000, FRA 412 000
• 1876- Victoria's coronation in India
• 1878- Britain gains Cyprus
• 1898- End of Mahdi revolt in Sudan
• 1899- Second Boer War

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Early life

• Born in Blenheim Palace in Woodstockon 30th
  November 1874
• Famous family ancestry
• Boarding school Ascot
• Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst
• First book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
  
• War correspondent for the Morning Post
• India, Sudan, South Africa

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History Check II1900-1918

• King Edward VII, George V
• Prime Ministers Balfour, Cambell-Bannerman,
  Asqith
• 1903- Edward's coronation in India
• 1906- Autonomy for Transvaal, Orange
• 1908- Olympic Games in London
• 1912- Titanic sinks
• 1914- World War One begins
• 1915- Britain conquers Iraq

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Parliament

• Writer, journalist, soldier
• First seat in the Parliament in the 1900 general
  election
• Conservative Party -gt Liberal Party
• Constant criticism of the Parliament
• In 1905, Churchill became Under- Secretary of
  State for the Colonies
• In 1910, Churchill was promoted to Home Secretary
• In 1911, Churchill became First Lord of the
  Admiralty
• Second book, biography of his father, Lord
  Randolph Churchill

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History Check III1918-1939

• King George V
• Prime Ministers Lloyd George, A.B. Law, Stanley
  Baldwin, Ramsey McDonald
• 1918- Versailles piece conference
• 1920- Division of Ireland
• 1929- Black Friday
• 1934- Hitler becomes Fuhrer
• 1938- Munich
• 1939- World War Two begins

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Between the wars

• Dismissed form War Cabinet in 1915
• Minister of Munition in July 1917
• Secretary of State Colonies in 1921
• Against worker's rights
• Opposed the Indian Home rule
• Declared Mahatma Gandhi to be a half-naked fair
• Started to pain, traveled with his family
• Began his most famous book, Marlborough His Life
  and Times
• Critical towards Chamberlain's appeasement

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History Check IV1939-1965

• King George VI, Elisabeth II
• Prime Ministers Winston Churchill
• 1933-1945 USA F.D.Roosevelt
• 1940- See Lowe- attack on GB
• 1943- Teheran conference
• 1945- End of war
• 1948- birth of Izrael
• 1949- NATO, RVHP

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• "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost
  may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall
  fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in
  the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in
  the hills we shall never surrender."

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Winston is back!
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears,
and sweat.

• First Lord of the Admiralty
• On May 30, 1939, Winston Churchill became Prime
  Minister
• In the name of God, go!
• Opposed any negotiation with the Germans
• Strong relations with US President Roosevelt
• Meetings with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph
  Stalin at Teheran and Yalta

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This is not the end. It is not even the
beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end
of the beginning
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Greatest Briton

• Beating out such worthy Britons as Darwin,
  Shakespeare, Newton, Nelson and Elizabeth I,
  Churchill was voted the Greatest Briton of all
  time in a poll conducted by the BBC.
• Over 1.3 million people voted by telephone and on
  the web.  Churchill garnered over 400,000 votes.

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More info

• Život Sira Winstona, Jaroslav Matejka,
  nakladatel. Svoboda
• Vzestup a pád britského impéria, Denis Judd,
  PROXIMA
• http//www.famousquotes.me.uk/famouspeoplequotes.h
  tm
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
• We shall never surrender audio http//www.youtube.
  com/watch?vG3i7GolMIAEmoderelatedsearch