The Germans had one great advantage: they had many more aircraft. Also, the Ro

While out of office, Churchill kept busy by making speeches, painting, and writing. In 1946, he made his “Iron Curtain” speech at Fulton, Missouri that explained how Europe had been separated by the Russian government. This speech had a strong affect on the American publics few of Russia. In 1947, the Royal Academy accepted two of Churchill’s paintings, and in 1948 the first volume of his The Second World War was published. In 1949, Churchill suffered from several strokes after attending the first Consultative Assembly for Western Europe at Strasbourg. News of the strokes was kept from the media to avoid the thought of an unfit leader for the Conservatives. Then in 1951 the Conservatives won the election and Churchill was made Prime Minister once again. As Prime Minister “he ended nationalization of the steel and auto industries but maintained most other socialist measures instituted by the Labour government” (“Churchill”). In the April of 1953, Queen Elizabeth II made Churchill Knight of the Garter, which made him Sir Winston Spencer Churchill. Two months later Churchill had another stroke and slowly recovered. In the October of 1953 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. On April 5, 1955 Churchill resigned as Prime Minister for health reasons.

“There are voices which assert that the bomb should never have been used at all. I cannot associate myself with such ideas. Six years of total war have convinced most people that had the Germans or Japanese discovered this new weapon, they would have used it upon us to our complete destruction with the utmost alacrity.”

In the June of 1940, Churchill had to make a painful decision. He was forced to pull English troops out of Dunkirk because of German advances. When France surrendered to Germany on June 22, England began to defend against a German invasion. Churchill made more insightful speeches to help prepare the English public for a difficult war. Should the invader come to Britain, there will be no placid lying down of the people in submission before him as we have seen, alas, in other countries. We shall defend every village, every town, and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved…(Jones 42)

The Yalta Conference, held in February of 1945, was the last time Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met before the war ended. The United States agreed to give Stalin anything he wanted in Europe for their support against Japan. Churchill also confirmed an agreement with Stalin, giving him control of Rumania and Bulgaria. The war had finally taken its toll on Franklin on April 13, 1945 when he died. After hearing this, Churchill later wrote, “When I received these tidings… I felt as if I had been struck a physical blow”(Jones 56). Franklin’s death put more pressure on Churchill to end the war with Germany. The war with Germany ended on 8 May 1945. Surrounded by cheering crowds of Londoners, Churchill made one of his shortest speeches from a balcony in Whitehall:

RAF victory in this most critical battle prevented the German invasion that had seemed inevitable after the complete and total defeat of France. Because Britain remained free Hitler was unable to quash all resistance in Western Europe and was forced into the war that no German ruler has ever wanted or desired: A two front war of attrition. The dramatic turnaround from the infallible and indestructible blitzkriegs and total victories of the past several months to a long, slow, seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of enemies that would never give up and never surrender was orchestrated by perhaps the most iconic and respected statesmen in all of British history, Winston Churchill.

“Now the pilots, you could see that they had enough of it at times, as some started to stutter, and others got a twitch; it didn't m

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