1. Winston Churchill Loone Vilumaa Supervisors: Marje Maasen, Tiia Pukk Carl Robert Jakobson Gymnasium 11c 2011

2. Whowas Winston Churchill? ThePrime Minister oftheUnitedKingdom Authorofmanybooks and magazinearticles Laureateofthe Nobel PrizeinLiterature A husband and fatheroffivechildren

3. Childhood BorninOxfordshire, Englandin 1874 Father – Lord RandolphChurchill, the 7th DukeofMarlborough Mother – JennieJerome, thedaughterofanAmericanmillionaire A youngerbrother-John StrangeSpencer Distantrelationshipwithhisparents Closewithhisnanny, Mrs Everest

4. Educated at St. George’s SchoolinBerkshire, BrunswickSchoolinHove and HarrowSchool Rebelliousbynature-didpoorly at school

5. Military Service 1895–1900, 1902–1924 ServedintheBritishArmy Lieutenant-General Observed/participatedinfightsinCuba, India, Sudan and SouthAfrica Receivedmanyawards Wrotearticlesfornewspapers

6. Marriage and FamilyLife Methisfuturewife, ClementineHozierin 1904 at a ball 1908 – wedding Fivechildren: Diana, Randolph, Sarah, Marigoldand Mary

7. ChildrenevacuatingLondon during the Battle of Britain when Churchill's popularity waned

8. TheBeginningofHisPoliticalCareer Took his seat in parliament in 1901 Started as a Conservative but soon joined the Liberals Campaigned for free trade Helped negotiate the treaty that set up the Irish Free State Returned the country to the prewar gold standard

9. Churchill’sRoleinWorldWar II Refusedto make peace with GermanyafterFrancecollapsed Numerousmeetings with other wartime leaders GavefreehandsfortheSovietUniontooccupythe Baltic countries, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania Receivedhuge praise once the war was over

10. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at the Yalta Conference, 1945

11. Churchill’sPoliticalActionafterWorldWar II Prime Minister for 3 terms Dealt withrebellionin Kenya and Malaya Anglo-Americanrelations ArguedforindependencefromEuropean Cole and SteelCommunity

12. Churchillasan Artist Foughtdepression (the “BlackDog“) bypainting Wastaughtbyhis artist friend, Paul Maze Made hundredsofpaintings Many are shownin the studio at Chartwell

13. Churchillas a Writer Incomecamemainlyfromwritingbooks Wrote a lotfornewspapers and magazines Nobel PrizeinLiteraturein 1953 Biggestwork – “TheSecondWorldWar“ Authorof 43 books

14. Honours KnightoftheGarter Nobel PrizeforLiterature ThefirsthonorarycitizenoftheUSA FellowoftheRoyalSociety TheCharlemagnePrizeLaureate Many, manyothers

15. Retirement and Death Manyhealthproblems Ate, drank and smoked a lot Seldomspokeinhis last years Diedin 1965 at theageof 90 Funeralat St. Paul’sCathedral, dozensofworldleadersattended BuriednearBlenheimPalace

16. Churchill’sStatefuneral, 1965

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