Winston Churchill

(noun)

A British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55).

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Examples of Winston Churchill in the following topics:

  • War Aims and Strategy

    • Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin), together with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, cooperated informally on a plan in which American and British troops concentrated in the West; Soviet troops fought on the Eastern front; and Chinese, British, and American troops fought in Asia and the Pacific.
    • Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
    • Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943.
    • Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Russian Embassy during the Tehran Conference to discuss the European Theater in 1943.
    • Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek of China (left), Roosevelt (middle), and Winston Churchill (right) at the Cairo Conference in December of 1943.

  • Yalta and the Postwar World

    • Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization.
    • Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe (specifically Poland).
    • Churchill alone pushed for free elections in Poland.
    • Yalta summit in February 1945 with (from left to right) Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin.
    • Analyze the controversies of the Yalta Conference, and the individual agendas of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

  • The Tehran Meeting

    • The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting held between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill in 1943 in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran.
    • Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from November 28 to December 1, 1943 in the Soviet Embassy in Tehran, Iran .
    • Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on Operation Overlord and general war policy.
    • Furthermore, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed that the nations in league with the Axis powers would be divided into territories to be controlled by the USSR, the U.S., and the UK.
    • Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill on the portico of the Russian Embassy during the Tehran Conference.

  • The Defeat of Japan

    • The participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States, represented by Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill (who was later replaced by Clement Attlee when the Labor Party won the British elections), and Harry S.
    • In addition to the Potsdam Agreement, which focused on the post-war order in Europe, on 26 July, Churchill, Truman, and Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the Nationalist Government of China (the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan) issued the Potsdam Declaration which outlined the terms of surrender for Japan during World War II in Asia.
    • The three powers were represented by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and, later, Clement Attlee, and President Harry S.

  • The Battle of the Atlantic

    • The name "Battle of the Atlantic" was coined by Winston Churchill in February 1941.
    • Winston Churchill later stated:

  • FDR's Third Term

    • Roosevelt and Churchill conducted a highly secret bilateral meeting in Argentia, Newfoundland.
    • Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet during Roosevelts third term, in 1941.

  • Roosevelt's Fourth Term

    • It was one of the major wartime meetings of Allies Powers and was led by Roosevelt, UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Union's General Secretary Joseph Stalin.
    • Churchill pressed for free elections and democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe (specifically Poland).

  • The Setbacks in the Atlantic

    • Some British naval officials, particularly the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, sought a more 'offensive' strategy.

  • America's Growing Involvement in WWII

    • In order to convince the U.S. to send destroyers, Winston Churchill warned Roosevelt that, if Britain was vanquished, its colonial islands close to American shores could fall into German hands and thereby become a direct threat to America.

  • Roosevelt's Second Term

    • He began a regular secret correspondence with the First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill in September 1939, discussing ways to support Britain.
    • Roosevelt forged a close personal relationship with Churchill, who became Prime Minister of Britain in May 1940.