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OCR: BIOGRAPHIES The figures who helped shape the century ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Churchill, Winston HOT TEXT Winston Churchill Click a red name to go to that person's Biography screen. Prime minister during World War 11, Winston Churchill because latown as the "greatest living Englishman. " His inspired leadership and brillant oratory rallied Britain in RETURN TO BIOGRAPHIES MENU te daricest days of the war against Adox Heder and the Nuis, and played a large part as the ultimate vietery. In addition to being a politician, he was also a writer on political and historical subjects as well as a painter. Bom into the aristooratio Marleerough family. Churchill trained as a soldier, saw action in India and the Sudan, med served as a war correspondent in South Afrioz. First elected to Parlament as a Conservative, Churchill changed political parties twice. He served in Herbert Asquith's Liberal government, then returned to the Conservative party in the 1920s. The 1990s -zur Wirdten Churchill, British Him isolated, urging rearmarerit to cemthat the statesman and wartime leader, German miltary threat Chosen as prime 1874-1965 minister in 1940, Churchill forged the alliance with the U.S. med U.S.S.R. that made vichery possible. Defeated in the 1945 election, te becane prime minister again in 1951. Od His death he was given a state funeral. Click to go to Biography HELP CONTENTS