Winston Churchill's first premiership
1940–1945 · Event
Churchill leads the wartime coalition from the fall of France to victory in Europe, then loses the 1945 election.
On these timelines: UK: Prime Ministers, England, Master, United Kingdom (combined), 1940: Britain's Darkest Hour
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