In the war David Lloyd George was Prime minister and had seen Churchill and the way he worked so he promoted him to the Minister of Munitions for the final year of the war and was responsible for the production of tanks, aero planes, guns and shells.
Later after the war there had been divisions in the Liberal Party where Churchill was and because of this Churchill thought it would be a good idea to join the Conservative party which he was part of for a while before the war. However from joining this party in 1929 the Conservative government lost office because of Ramsay MacDonald who was part of the National Government. Even in Churchill’s own party people thought he was a right winged extremist and was not invited to join the cabinet. So he had no other choice but to take a break and concentrate on his literature.
While not into politics Churchill constantly warned people about the threat of Nazi Germany, however nobody seemed to take any notice. When World War II started Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain made Churchill the first lord of the admiralty. In May 1940 Chamberlain resigned and Churchill became Prime Minister. Churchill’s qualities were that he was a good speaker, and also for a long time Churchill never made peace with Germany which helped to keep Britain against the Germans.
Through the war Britain was doing badly, however he still had the support of the House of Commons. He was always trying to bring the public into the war and tried to make it a huge effort, especially through the times in the Blitz.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Churchill working closely with Franklin D. Roosevelt. He did this so that he could be certain of a victory over Japan and Germany. Also he made another ally the Soviet Union after Germany launched Operation Barbarossa. These allies would defiantly make Hitler worried and the British were making many powerful allies. The D-day landings then took place in June 1944. This was just one of the major attacks that would secure a victory for the Allies and Britain. Churchill was partly responsible for the D-Day landings and the public in Britain grew in faith as Britain was now actually starting to defeat Germany.
In the war Churchill was in his seventies and was starting to lose his energy. The public in Britain then started to vote for social reform and backed the Labour Government. In 1946 Churchill visited the United States and made the famous Iron Curtain speech in Missouri. Later that year Churchill had the first of many strokes but the public did not know about this at the time and was re-elected as Prime Minister in 1951. In 1953 Churchill got the Nobel Prize for Literature. Then in 1955 resigned and later died on January 24th 1965.
