Winston Churchill...?

Question

Bad thing's Winston Churchill did??

Thanks, need help for English assingment.

Answer 1

In the First World War, Winston Churchill was the First Lord of the British Admiralty. He oversaw the 1916 Galipoli failure, in which thousands of allied soldiers died as a result of poor planning and co-ordination among Allied commanders.

The Gallipoli landings were meant to land troops in Turkey and gain control of the Dardanelles, which would allow the allies to send vital supplies to Russia, which was cut off by the Germans in the Eastern front. It would also allow the allies to force their way onto constantinople, and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war.

Thousands of Allied soldiers - British, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, Indian and other parts of the Empire, were landed at the wrong beaches. Forced to go up over high cliffs, It allowed the Turkish to fire down onto the landings.

Churchill and all the other british military commanders responsible for Gallipoli disaster should have been court-martialled and shot for the complete waste of life at Gallipoli.

Answer 2

Churchill did make some poor decisions in his lifetime. From his Time with the Lancers in the Sudanese Campaign, the South African campaign, the Sidney Street Seige, the Dardanelles, His effort in the Edward and Simpson Abdication, some of his decisions in the Second World War as First Lord and as Prime Minister. His refusal to campaign in 1945, his last term in office in the 1950's was also very poor.
But for all his faults he also did make some fantastic efforts for this country.

Answer 3

Possibly the baddest thing Winnie did was to mount the campaign against the Turks. It was a naval and military operation which failed utterly. As a result, Winston sacked himself from his job of First Sea Lord and went into the trenches as Colonel of his Regiment. He survived that. The rest is history, mostly written by himself by the way. He was prime minister when I was a child and died when I was 23. Winston did a lot of daft things in his life but he was brave in the face of the enemy. He managed in the Boer War [South Africa 1898-1901 approx] to get captured by the Boers but made good his escape walking some 200 plus miles back to the British lines. Mad or what?

During WW2 Winston told the King [King George VI], "I'm going to France on D-Day with the first wave ashore". "In that case," replied the King, "so am I." "Oh no your not", responded Winston. "Then neither are you," ordered the King. "As Grand Admiral of the Fleet, I order you not to go to France." So ended the argument.

The Monarch holds the highest rank in the Royal Navy - thus HM Queen Elizabeth is Grand Admiral of the Fleet.

Answer 4

He had no natural gift for financial administration. One of his moves was to restore the gold standard, a disastrous measure, from which flowed deflation, unemployment, and the miners' strike that led to the general strike of 1926. Churchill offered no remedy except the cultivation of strict economy, extending even to the armed services. Churchill viewed the general strike as a quasi-revolutionary measure and was foremost in resisting a negotiated settlement.

Answer 5

He was a prime mover in the Gallipoli campaign - but, if the attack had gone ahead as he'd wanted it to, it would have succeeded.
He wanted to overthrow the Bolsheviks (bad thing?).
He had a soft spot for Mussolini.
He put Britain back on the gold standard (I don't understand this one but economists say it was a bad thing).
He was opposed to Indian independence and contemptuous of Gandhi.
For a time he supported Edward VIII in his bid to remain King.

But set against these:
the early Churchill would have been thought too radical for the present government;
he ensured that at the start of World War I, Britain had a navy up to the job;
after WWI, he established a Middle Eastern settlement that lasted 30 years;
he warned of the danger of Hitler and the Nazis; and, above all,
his tireless effort and noble speeches inspired the British to resist Hitler and kept the alliance against him together.
P.S. there is no apostrophe in English plurals, e.g. "things". I hope your English teacher knows that.

Answer 6

As far as i know, he hadn't done any bad things. In fact, Churchill is a great man. For example, he gave inspirational speeches to his people during WW2 to keep up the British morale. However he was replaced as PM after the war as people preferred new and radical policies, contradicting his Conservatives' group. That may be his only fault, i guess.

Answer 7

Churchill was a notorious womanizer, and hard drinker as well. This resulted in one of his funniest quotes as well. A female member of parliament who was very much opposed to Churchill encountered him at a reception with a drink in his hand.

"Winston, you are a stinking drunk!"

Churchill replied:

"Madame, you are ugly, but tomorrow, I will be sober."

Answer 8

Try this page.... www.mises.org/story/ The Truth about Churchill. Really good reading really opened my eyes about 'the great man'
Tina

Answer 9

"THE French had collapsed. The Dutch had been overwhelmed. The Belgians had surrendered. The British army, trapped, fought free and fell back toward the Channel ports, converging on a fishing town whose name was then spelled Dunkerque.

Behind them lay the sea.

It was England’s greatest crisis since the Norman conquest, vaster than those precipitated by Philip II’s Spanish Armada, Louis XIV’s triumphant armies, or Napoleon’s invasion barges massed at Boulogne. This time Britain stood alone. If the Germans crossed the Channel and established uncontested beachheads, all would be lost, for it is a peculiarity of England’s island that its southern weald is indefensible against disciplined troops. Now the 220,000 Tommies at Dunkirk, Britain’s only hope, seemed doomed. On the Flanders beaches they stood around in angular, existential attitudes, like dim purgatorial souls awaiting disposition. There appeared to be no way to bring more than a handful of them home. The Royal Navy’s vessels were inadequate. King George VI has been told that they would be lucky to save 17,000. The House of Commons was warned to prepare for “hard and heavy tidings.”
Then, from the streams and estuaries of Kent and Dover, a strange fleet appeared: trawlers and tugs, scows and fishing sloops, lifeboats and pleasure craft, smacks and coasters; the island ferry Grade Fields; Tom Sopwith’s America’s Cup challenger Endeavour; even the London fire brigade’s fire-float Massey Shaw — all of them manned by civilian volunteers:
English fathers, sailing to rescue England’s exhausted, bleeding sons.

Even today what followed seems miraculous. Not only were Britain’s soldiers delivered; so were French support troops: a total of 338,682 men. But wars are not won by fleeing from the enemy. And British morale was still unequal to the imminent challenge. These were the same people who, less than a year earlier, had rejoiced in the fake peace bought by the betrayal of Czechoslovakia at Munich. Most of their leaders and most of the press remained craven. It had been over a thousand years since Alfred the Great had made himself and his countrymen one and sent them into battle transformed.
Now in this new exigency, confronted by the mightiest conqueror Europe had ever known, England looked for another Alfred, a figure cast in a mold which, by the time of the Dunkirk deliverance, seemed to have been forever lost.
England’s new leader, were he to prevail, would have to stand for everything England’s decent, civilized Establishment had rejected. They viewed Adolf Hitler as the product of complex social and historical forces. Their successor would have to be a passionate Manichaean who saw the world as a medieval struggle to the death between the powers of good and the powers of evil, who held that individuals are responsible for their actions and that the German dictator was therefore wicked. A believer in martial glory was required, one who saw splendor in the ancient parades of victorious legions through Persepolis and could rally the nation to brave the coming German fury. An embodiment of fading Victorian standards was wanted: a tribune for honor, loyalty, duty, and the supreme virtue of action; one who would never compromise with iniquity, who could create a sublime mood and thus give men heroic visions of what they were and might become. Like Adolf Hitler he would have to be a leader of intuitive genius, a born demagogue in the original sense of the word, a believer in the supremacy of his race and his national destiny, an artist who knew how to gather the blazing light of history into his prism and then distort it to his ends, an embodiment of inflexible resolution who could impose his will and his imagination on his people — a great tragedian who understood the appeal of martyrdom and could tell his followers the worst, hurling it to them like great hunks of bleeding meat, persuading them that the year of Dunkirk would be one in which it was “equally good to live or to die” — who could if necessary be Just as cruel, just as cunning, and just as ruthless as Hitler but who could win victories without enslaving populations, or preaching supernaturalism, or foisting off myths of his infallibility, or destroying, or even warping, the libertarian institutions he had sworn to preserve. Such a man, if he existed, would be England’s last chance.

In London there was such a man."

Answer 10

"Winston sacked himself from his job of First Sea Lord..." No! First Sea Lord is the admiral who is the professional head of the Royal Navy. First Lord of the Admiralty (WSC's job) used to be the political head of the Royal Navy.