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Quizzes Series 1 Quizzes. Intermediate level. The two sides of Churchill. To play this audio you need to enable JavaScript. This week's question: Which of these facts about Winston Churchill is false? Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary surrender give up a fight and submit to the enemy controversial describes something people disagree about determined persistent, someone who doesn't give up on something easily skate over avoid misjudged got the wrong opinion flawed weak in character strategy plan of action lacklustre dull, uninspiring Transcript Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript Neil Hello.
Mike Hello. Mike OK, I'm ready! Mike I think I do, yes. Now, is it: a He won the Nobel Peace Prize. Churchill studied the issues in detail… Neil … and it helped him to get things right, according to Boris Johnson. Mike They were: surrender controversial determined skate over misjudged flawed strategy lacklustre Neil Thanks, Mike.
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In , he would champion the use of artificial harbors called mulberries — cement-filled ship hulls that could be sunk where needed to create instant harbors for troop deployments and supplies.
But the most innovative and most important thing Churchill supported was radar the British were the first to deploy effective radar systems. But for nineteen months, Churchill had to rally a beaten people against an unstoppable foe. How did he do it? He understood the people he was leading — and he understood what it was they wanted, what it was that the Nazis were trying to destroy.
He was, quite literally, willing to die for them. After saving his country from the brink of destruction, Churchill was forced out of office by a vote of the British people just before the end of the war in But history was going to be kind to him whether he wrote it or not. The British people returned him to the office of Prime Minister, Queen Elizabeth offered to create Churchill as Duke of London, but he declined.
In , by an act of the U. Congress, he was the first living person named Honorary Citizen of the United States. When Winston Churchill died on January 24, at the age of 90, the Queen decreed that he should have a state funeral, the first ever in English history for a non-royal.
The former has-been and crackpot had journeyed a very long way on the strength of his courage and commitment.
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