Winston Churchill
A historian who lived through it all, statesman, politician, and powerful war leader—Winston Churchill did it all of this plus much more. Born into aristocracy in the late 1800's, he had always been involved in politics. He worked for Parliament for the majority of his life, starting at the bottom. Throughout the Second World War, He became Prime Minister and made many alliances with world leaders resulting in him becoming the leading figure during the Big Three.
Winston Churchill had many years of military, as well as political, experience. For more than forty years he was a member of Parliament, and over twenty-five of those years he held high ministerial office (Gilbert 3). Having had that background, it made him a good candidate for Prime Minister. After Neville Chamberlain's resignation on May 14, 1940, Churchill then came to power on that day. He took upon a ‘disaster' that he, as much as anyone else, brought into effect (Stokesbury 88). As Prime Minister, he wanted to confer upon himself the position of Minister of Defense (Blake and Louis 271). Achieving that position would make him first Prime Minister to have conduct in war (Blake and Louis 271). Churchill was able to take upon both positions. In doing this, he was also able to accomplish the roles without defining the powers and authority of they each had to the public.
During the years of World War II, Winston Churchill shared many relationships with multiple world leaders. These relationships were not always good, or in some cases were perceived that way. And in other cases they worked out well bringing his nation ahead in the war.
Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower shared many disagreements all through the Second World War, but these disagreements were never personal. They each came from two separate nations, they shared different interests, and they acquired different responsibilities (Blake and Louis 405). Naturally, those diversities would cause...
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