Презентация "Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill"

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician and Nobel laureate who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

 

Jennie Jerome (1854–1921), the American-born mother of Winston Churchill

Churchill's mother Jennie Jerome and her sons: Winston and Jack

Randolph Churchill in the 1860s

Family and early life

Blenheim Palace, the Churchill family home

Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill PC (13 February 1849 – 24 January 1895)

  • From age two to six, he lived in Dublin

Churchill, aged seven, in 1881

Elizabeth Ann Everest - 1832-1895

Churchill's earliest exposure to education occurred in Dublin, where a governess tried teaching him reading, writing, and arithmetic (his first reading book was called 'Reading Without Tears'). With limited contact with his parents, Churchill became very close to his nanny, 'Mrs' Elizabeth Ann Everest, whom he called 'Old Woom

St. George's School

Stoke Brunswick School

Harrow School

Combined Cadet Force

  • Churchill met his future wife, Clementine Hozier, in 1904 at a ball in Crewe House

A young Winston Churchill and fiancée Clementine Hozier shortly before their marriage in 1908

A young Winston Churchill and fiancée Clementine Hozier shortly before their marriage in 1908

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill

Churchill during the Anglo-Boer War

Churchill takes aim with a Sten submachine gun in June 1941. The man in the pin-striped suit and trilby on Churchill's left is his bodyguard, Walter H. Thompson. 

Churchill wears a helmet during an air raid warning in the Battle of Britain in 1940 

Winston Churchill walks through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, 1941

Churchill at the Yalta Conference in February 1945, with a frail Roosevelt and Stalin beside him. 

May 8, 1945. Germany surrendered.

Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall on the day he broadcast to the nation that the war with Germany had been won, 8 May 1945

  • After his death, Queen Elizabeth II granted him the honor of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest collections of world statesmen in history. Named the Greatest Briton of all time in 2002 survey, Churchill is widely regarded as among the most influential people in British history, consistently ranking well in the polls, Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Churchill's grave at St Martin's Church, Bladon 

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