In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill, who had spoken often of European union during the war, advocated the formation of `` a kind of United States of Europe ''.

The U. S. and Soviet heads of Government have met three times since Sir Winston Churchill in 1953 introduced a new word into international diplomacy with his call for a fresh approach to the problem of peace `` at the summit of the nations ''.

* 1941 – World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.

* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

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This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

During the Second Boer War on 15 November 1899, Winston Churchill, then a war-correspondent, was travelling on board an armoured train when it was ambushed by Boer commandos.

Tank or " landship " development, originally conducted by the British Navy under the auspices of the Landships Committee was sponsored by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill and proceeded through a number of prototypes culminating in the Mark I tank prototype, named Mother.

* 1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.

* 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

Winston Churchill was one of its occupants.

A photograph from October 1918, reproduced in many biographies, shows the then unknown Lt .- Col. Montgomery standing in front of Winston Churchill ( Minister of Munitions ) at the parade following the liberation of Lille.

He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

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Lloyd George succeeded Asquith at the Exchequer, and was in turn succeeded at the Board of Trade by Winston Churchill, a recent defector from the Conservatives.

* Winston Churchill secretly accepted £ 5, 000 — the equivalent of perhaps millions in today's money — from Burmah Oil ( now known as BP ) to lobby the British government to allow them to monopolise Persian oil resources.

In February 1922, Winston Churchill telegraphed Herbert Samuel asking for cuts in expenditure and noting: In both Houses of Parliament there is growing movement of hostility, against Zionist policy in Palestine, which will be stimulated by recent Northcliffe articles.

Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).

An informal statement issued by Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-Shek, which outlined the terms for a Japanese surrender.

* The Sinews of Peace Winston Churchill speech in 5, March, 1946, warning about the advance of communism in central Europe.

He was also the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister, under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before leading the Labour Party to a landslide election victory over Churchill's Conservative Party in 1945.

The Gallipoli Campaign had been masterminded by Winston Churchill.

Consequently, Chamberlain tendered his resignation, and Labour and the Conservatives entered a coalition government led by Winston Churchill.

Prime ministers may take other ministerial posts — for example during the Second World War, Winston Churchill was also Minister of Defence ( although there was then no Ministry of Defence ).

The last Coalition in the UK before 2010 was led by Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill during most of the Second World War from May 1940 to May 1945.

But after the failure of Operation Zitadelle, the Turkish government participated in the Second Cairo Conference in 1943, where Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and İsmet İnönü reached an agreement on issues regarding Turkey's possible contribution to the Allies.

King ( far right ) together with ( from left to right ) Governor General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone | the Earl of Athlone, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the Second Quebec Conference | Octagon Conference, Quebec City, September, 1944

The Parachute Regiment has its origins in the elite force of Commandos set up by the British Army at the request of Winston Churchill during the initial phase of the Second World War.

That aspect of the play has overshadowed Hochhuth's conceit, that the play would contribute to a debate on the ethics of the area bombing of civilian areas by the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, with particular reference to Operation Gomorrah, the Royal Air Force raids on Hamburg in 1943, and culminating in a lengthy and invented debate between Winston Churchill and the pacifist George Bell, Bishop of Chichester.

Winston Churchill estimated that the two Queens helped to shorten the Second World War by at least a year ; fundamentally due to the large troop-carrying capacities of the ships.

One exception is the famous, and now very popular tourist destination, Cabinet War Rooms, used by Winston Churchill during the Second World War.

During the Second World War, details of the War Cabinet structure were communicated to Parliament ; Winston Churchill had previously announced a Standing Committee on National Expenditure in his 1925 Budget statement.

Winston Churchill estimated that the two Cunard Queens helped shorten the Second World War by a year.

The year marked several publications on the literarily influential Boer Wars: Winston Churchill, the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and a major Allied political figure in World War II penned a memoir, Ian Hamilton's March, describing his experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, and Arthur Conan Doyle ( famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes ) wrote on the subject in his The Great Boer War.

* The first volume of Sir Winston Churchill's " The Second World War " ( 1948 – 1953 ) is published.

The following year, the award was presented to Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during the Second World War, for his " dedicated and devoted service to the cause of human liberty ".

When the Japanese invaded Thailand on December 8, 1941, ( because of the international date line this occurred an hour and a half before Pearl Harbor ),< ref > Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War, Vol 3, The Grand Alliance, p. 548 Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1950 </ em ></ ref > hesitant Phibunsongkhram was reluctantly forced to order a general ceasefire after just one day of resistance and allow the Japanese armies to use the country as a base for their invasions of Burma and Malaya.

Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's personal physician during the Second World War, Charles Wilson, the first Baron Moran, was born in Skipton in 1882.

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At the Second Quebec Conference on September 16, 1944, U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau, Jr. persuaded the initially very reluctant British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to agree to the plan, likely using a $ 6 billion Lend Lease agreement to do so.

At the Second Quebec Conference, a high-level military conference held in Quebec City, September 12 – 16, 1944, the British and United States governments, represented by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, respectively, reached agreement on a number of matters, including a plan for Germany, based on Morgenthau's original proposal.

They have included all the British Prime Ministers since the Second World War except Winston Churchill, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, some, such as Margaret Thatcher, several times, as well as Prince Philip, General de Gaulle, General Sikorski and the Emperor Haile Selassie.

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General Hastings Lionel " Pug " Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC ( – ) was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952 to 1957.

Winston Churchill was fond of the Mauser C96 and used one at the Battle of Omdurman and during the Second Boer War ; similarly, Lawrence of Arabia carried a Mauser C96 for a period during his time in the Middle East.

He is chiefly remembered as Winston Churchill's personal physician during the Second World War and was President of the Royal College of Physicians from 1941 to 1949.