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OCR: BIOGRAPHIES The figures who helped shape the century ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Churchill, Winston Winston Churchill Prime minister during World War 11, Winston Churchill because latown as the "greatest living Englishenin. " His inspired leadership and brillant oratory rallied Britain in the daricest days of the war against Adox Heder and the Nais, and played a large past as the ultimate vietery. In addition to being a pollician, he was also a writer on political and historical subjects as well as a painter. Bom CHRONOLOGY ICON into the aristooratio Marleerough family, Churchill trained as a soldier, saw action in India and the Sudan, and served Clicking the pocket watch launches as a war correspondent in South Afrioz First elected to Parlament as a Conservative, Churchill a pop-up giving the key dates and changed political parties twice. He served in Herbert Asquith's Liberal government, then returned to the events of that person's life. Conservative party in the 1920s. The 1930s -zur Wirdten Churchill, British Him isolated, urging retrichetit to cemthat the statesman and wartime leader, German miltary threat Chosen as prime MORE INFORMATION 1874-1965 minister in 1940, Churchill forged the alliance with the U.S. MA U.S.S.R. that made vietery RETURN TO BIOGRAPHIES MENU possible. Defeated in the 1945 election, he becane prime minister again in 1951. On His death he was given a state funeral. Click to launch Chronology pop-up HELP CONTENTS