Today, we had a work day on our projects. The projects are due Wednesday.
Winston Churchill during WW2:
- prepared Britain for a long war
- "finest hour" speech to the house of commons on June 18 "I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin."
- Refused armistice with Germany
- Kept resistance alive in the British Empire and created basis for the later Allied counter- attacks of 1942-45
- Britain served as a platform for the supply of Soviet Union and the liberation of Western Europe
- His first speech as prime minister "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat."
- The house of commons payed attention to him after this speech
- He gave 2 more speeches before the Battle of Britain
- "... we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
- Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
- At the height of the Battle of Britain he said "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
- Famous war speech on November 10, 1942 in London after the allies victory
- He said. "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
- Had good relationship with FDR
- Churchill was relieved when FDR was was re- elected because FDR secured vital food, oil and munitions through the North Atlantic shipping routes
- Even though he was sick, he traveled over 100,000 miles throughout the war to meet other national leaders
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