WINSTON CHURCHILL 1874 1965 BRITISH PRIME MINISTER AND STATESMAN CHURCHILL WINSTON 1874 1965 WORLD WAR II COLD WAR GLOBAL RELATIONS WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS BORN IN OXFORDSHIRE ENGLAND AFTER GRADUATING FROM THE ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE HE SERVED IN THE BRITISH ARMY IN CUBA INDIA AND SOUTH AFRICA IN 1900 CHURCHILL WAS ELECTED TO PARLIAMENT IN 1906 HE BECAME UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES HE JOINED THE CABINET IN 1908 IN 1911 CHURCHILL TOOK A POSITION IN THE BRITISH NAVY AFTER WORLD WAR I CHURCHILL SERVED IN SEVERAL GOVERNMENT POSITIONS FROM 1929 TO 1939 CHURCHILL WAS NOT ACTIVE IN THE GOVERNMENT BUT HE DID WARN OF ADOLF HITLER'S GROWING POWER IN GERMANY DURING THIS PERIOD HIS POLITICAL VIEWS BECAME INCREASINGLY CONSERVATIVE IN 1939 AFTER GREAT BRITAIN DECLARED WAR ON GERMANY CHURCHILL WAS AGAIN NAMED LEADER OF THE BRITISH NAVY HE BECAME PRIME MINISTER IN 1940 AND GUIDED BRITAIN THROUGH WORLD WAR II HIS PARTY LOST POWER IN 1945 ALTHOUGH NO LONGER PRIME MINISTER CHURCHILL REMAINED ACTIVE AS A POLITICIAN AND WRITER IN MARCH 1946 IN FULTON MISSOURI HE MADE A SPEECH IN WHICH HE USED THE PHRASE IRON CURTAIN TO DESCRIBE THE SITUATION IN EUROPE CHURCHILL RETURNED AS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IN 1951 AND SERVED UNTIL 1955 HE WON THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE IN 1953 CHURCHILL WROTE A BIOGRAPHY OF HIS FATHER LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL AND A BIOGRAPHY OF THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH HE ALSO PUBLISHED A HISTORY OF WORLD WAR I IN FOUR VOLUMES UNDER THE TITLE OF THE WORLD CRISIS 1923 29 HIS MEMOIRS OF WORLD WAR II FILLED SIX VOLUMES 1948 1953/54 IN 1963 THE U.S CONGRESS MADE HIM AN HONORARY U.S CITIZEN
