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OCR: BIOGRAPHIES The figures who helped shape the century ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Churchill, Winston PAGE TURNS Winston Churchill Click the left or right page-turn arrows to see the previous or Prime minister during World War 11, Winston Churchill because lateur as the "greatest living Englishenin. " His next Biography screen in the inspired leadership and brillant oratory rallied Britain in the daricest days of the war against Adoy Heder and the alphabetical sequence. Nuis, and played a large past as the ultimate vietery. In sadition to being a pollician, he was also a writer on RETURN TO BIO GRAPHIES MENU political and historical subjects as well as a painter. Bom into the aristooratio Marleerough family, Churchil truened 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 Click to go to next Conservative party in the 1920s. The 1930s saur Biography screen Wirdten Churchill, British Him isolated, urging rearmarerit to cemthat the statesman and varthe leader, German miltary threat Chosen as prime 1874-1965 minister in 1940, Churchil forged the allande with the U.S. med U.S.S.R. that made victery possible. Defeated in the 1945 election, he becanbe prime minister again in 1951. On His death he was given a state funeral. OGY I Click to go to previous Biography screen HELP CONTENTS