(November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965)

Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace to a wealthy aristocratic family.  He joined the Royal Cavalry at the age of 21 as both a soldier and a journalist, and travelled extensively during that time.  After being captured and dramatically escaping during the Boer conflict, he returned to Britain with fame to his name and became MP of Oldham in 1900.  As the First World War progressed, he stepped out of the political field and went back to being a soldier and fought on the Western Front. After the war was over, he returned to the political world on and off, holding various positions and titles, and was made First Lord of the Admiralty at the start of the Second World War.

Churchill had been very wary of the rise of Nazi Germany from the early 1930s. Once the war started, his goal for the British people was to beat Germany at all cost, as he informed Parliament when he was made Prime Minister in May 1940. After Germany, unprovoked, attacked the Soviet Union, a once anti-Bolshevik Churchill, vowed to support the Soviet Union in a unified approach to end the war, along with Truman, president of the United States.  Together, they were able to secure victories around Europe, which led to the surrender in Germany. While not re-elected as Prime Minister at the end of the Second World War, he regained the position in 1951.