USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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The Prime Minister of Great Britain during World War II was:

(A) Adolph Hitler

(B) Benito Mussolini

(C) Josef Stalin

(D) ** Winston Churchill

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Winston Churchill was an inspirational statesman, writer, orator and leader who led Britain to victory in the Second World War. He served as Conservative Prime Minister twice-from 1940 to 1945 (before being defeated in the 1945 general election by the Labour leader Clement Attlee) and from 1951 to 1955.

Concept note-2: -Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of Britain during the Second World War. He was commended for his efforts to bring Britain and the Allied powers to their eventual victory. Q. Who was the Prime Minister of Britain during World War Two?

Concept note-3: -The news that Britain was at war was broken by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at 11.15am on Sunday 3 September 1939. In a 5 minute broadcast on the Home Service, he announced that as Hitler had failed to respond to British demands to leave Poland, “This country is at war with Germany".

Concept note-4: -Winston Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest prime ministers for his leadership during the Second World War. Clement Attlee, who served as Labour Leader for over 20 years, is almost always very highly rated among prime ministers.

Concept note-5: -Neville Chamberlain was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. He is best known for his role in the Munich Agreement of 1938 which ceded parts of Czechoslovakia to Hitler and is now the most popular example of the foreign policy known as appeasement.