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Winston Churchill was born is Oxfordshire, England. His parents were Lord Randolph Churchill a well-known politician and Jennie Jerome an American socialite. -
He becomes a cavalry cadet of the US military, this is the equivalent of a second lieutenant. -
His father, Lord Randolph dies at the age of 45. Despite the fact that Winston did not have a strong relationship with him, he started to worry because maybe he also may die young and vowed to make the most of his life. -
Churchill runs for Parliament as a Conservative Party candidate. He loses the election, but his campaigning talents impress a lot of people. -
Churchill is elected to be a member of the British House of Commons a year after losing his campaign for Parliament.
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Four years later, after the loss of the conservative party he joins the Liberal Party. -
In a St. Margaret's Church at Westminster Abbey, Churchill marries Clementine Hozier, whom he met four years ago at a ball. They will have a total of five children. -
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns and Winston Churchill takes over as Prime Minister at the time Germans prepare to invade France in World War II. He refuses to deal an armistice with Germany, and the Germans begin bombing London two months later in the Battle of Britain. The German bombing campaign is a complete failure. -
Iron Curtain speech was a speech given on March 5, 1946, in Fulton, Missouri, in which Churchill emphasized the need for the United States and Britain to act as peace and stability keepers against the threat of Soviet communism, which had lowered a "iron curtain." -
Winston Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." -
In 1953, while still in power, Churchill suffered a heart attack, therefore the BBC and all other national newspapers would have written memorials/ tributes in advance to be published when he died.