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1874 Born
1901 Winston Churchill enters the House of Commons
1908 Winston Churchill is ordained as a Druid in England
.
1940 With the resignation of Neville Chamberlain
, Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1940 Winston Churchill, in his first address as Prime Minister, tells the House of Commons
, "I have nothing to offer you but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
1940 Winston Churchill warns the House of Commons
to, "...prepare itself for hard and heavy tidings."
1940 Winston Churchill speaks to the House of Commons
: "...the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin."
1940 Winston Churchill pays tribute in the House of Commons
to the Royal Air Force
: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Winston Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result.
1941 World War II: Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a Joint session of the U.S. Congress
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States
to travel by airplane
while in office (Miami, Florida
to Morocco
to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II
).
1943 Trident Conference begins in Washington, D.C.
with Franklin D. Roosevelt
and Winston Churchill taking part.
1943 Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
1943 Quadrant Conference begins in Quebec City
. Canadian Prime Minister
MacKenzie King meets with Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt
.
1943 World War II: War in the Pacific - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and ROC leader Chiang Kai-Shek
meet in Cairo
, Egypt
, to discuss ways to defeat Japan
.
1943 World War II: Tehran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin
meet in Tehran
to discuss war strategy (on November 30 they established an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe
codenamed Operation Overlord).
1944 British
Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union
Premier Joseph Stalin
begin a nine-day conference in Moscow
to discuss the future of Europe
.
1945 World War II
: President
Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister
Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin
at the Yalta Conference
.
1945 World War II: President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Winston Churchill and Soviet
leader Joseph Stalin
begin the Yalta Conference
(ends February 11)
1945 Winston Churchill resigns as Britain
's prime minister after his Conservative Party
is soundly defeated by the Labour Party
in the 1945 general election. Clement Attlee
becomes the new prime minister.
1946 In his speech in Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill talks about Iron Curtain.
1950 Winston Churchill supports idea of pan-European army allied with Canada and USA
1951 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister
; his foreign minister is Anthony Eden
1952 Winston Churchill scraps UK
compulsory national Identity Cards
1952 United Kingdom
Prime Minister
Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
1955 Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
.
1965 Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90, as the result of a stroke he suffered on January 15.
1965 Died
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