Definitions for "Churchill, Winston"
Keywords:  minister, prime, britain, british, war
(1874-1965) First lord of the Admiralty, 1911-15; chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1915; commanded a battalion on the Western Front, 1915-16; minister of munitions, 1917-19; war (and air) secretary, 1919-21.
Prime minister of Great Britain from 1940-1945 and again 1951-1955. Winston Churchill giving the V for Victory
The British Prime Minister.
He succeeded Chamberlain and recognized and worked against the threat Hitler presented.