World War II<\/a> is vastly difficult to determine. <\/p>\n\n\n\nThis is not least because, under the Nazi regime, many Poles were replaced in their homes by the conquering Germans in an attempt to consolidate Nazi power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the case of the post-WWII settlement, Chuchill was convinced that the only way to alleviate tensions between the two populations was the expulsion of the Germans, despite the fact that many of the ethnic Germans had lived in Poland for generations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Churchill expounded in the House of Commons in 1944, “Expulsion is the method which, in so far as we have been able to see, will be the most satisfactory and lasting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There will be no mixture of populations to cause endless trouble…A clean sweep will be made. I am not alarmed by these transferences, which are more possible in modern conditions…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the importance of Churchill’s role in World War II was undeniable, he produced many enemies in his own country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His expressed contempt for ideas such as public health care and for better education for the majority of the population in particular produced much dissatisfaction amongst the population, particularly those who had fought in the war. Immediately following the close of the war in Europe Churchill was heavily defeated at election by Clement Attlee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following this defeat Churchill headed the opposition, until he was again elected as Prime Minister in 1951. He retired because of his health in 1955. He died on 24 January 1965.
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Churchill is believed by several writers to have suffered from bipolar disorder; certainly he suffered from fits of depression that he called his “black dogs”. In 1953 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the beginning of the Cold War he coined the term the “Iron Curtain,” a phrase that entered the public consciousness after a 1946 speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri when he famously declared “From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The United States Navy destroyer\u00a0USS Winston Churchill (DD-81)<\/em>\u00a0is named in his honor. Churchill is known as a great wit as well as a politician. <\/p>\n\n\n\nNancy Astor once told him “If I were your wife I’d poison your coffee,” to which Churchill replied: “If I were your husband, madam, I would drink it.” Another example relates to a report which he received from Admiral Pound, whom Churchill did not rate. On the report he wrote “Pennywise”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965). Born at Blenheim Palace, Winston Churchill was a descendant of the first famous member of the Churchill family: John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Winston’s father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was the third son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough. The first notable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4388,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishhistory.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}