Churchill and World War Two

World War Two Churchill

World War Two was a cataclysmic war in which the world almost ended. The book that I picked to write about this is Troublesome Young Men by Lynne Olson. This book explains Churchill’s rise to power.

Churchill led a legal insurrection in Britain against the prior government run by Chamberlain. Chamberlin was a leader who valued peace and prosperity. However, Hitler had different ideas; his ideas were to lead a massive extermination of Jews and also conquer Europe. Hitler failed when he invaded Russia; this is where Nazi Germany collapsed. Hitler forced Churchill to lead a change of leadership against Chamberlain.

Churchill was a legendary revolutionary who led a major switching of leader’s against the current occupying government in England. Churchill and thirty of his rebels led a political changing of the gaurd against Chamberlain during World War II... [1] Chamberlain was a weak and ineffective leader to fight the Nazi’s, although he may have had other strengths. After World War I, there was a large hesitancy to go to war throughout the world, which is why we can’t judge Chamberlain too much. World War I cost millions of men, which means that we need to be a little less judgmental of Chamberlain, even if, later on, we strongly suspect that he was wrong. Churchill was right, but Chamberlain did not know at the time the right thing to do, even if we may think that today. “History cannot be known backwards, only forwards.”

The Troublesome Young Men were a group of British leaders who were some of the main leaders of the English Parliament. The “Troublesome Young Men” were 30 parliamentary members of the English Parliament.” Some of them were elected in 1924-1933. They were elected to parliament in England and later joined together under Churchill. Churchill got these parliamentarians together and built a Tory coalition that led them to a coup against Chamberlain. The Nazi’s in Germany were massacring Jews by the millions, and also invaded and killed political prisoners and other discriminatory groups. Churchill was a key leader throughout England and took out Chamberlain.

Churchill was a revolutionary leader leading England and the Allies during a time of great darkness and peril. Churchill threw out Chamberlain due to his weakness in a time of darkness and when war was necessary. Chamberlin was learning the lessons of World War I, but he wasn’t prepared for Hitler’s decisive evilness, which caused the world to suffer under his watch. Chamberlin was ineffective during Hitler’s time, but we cannot fully understand what his decision-making process was until afterward. The degree of Hitler’s evilness wasn’t as widely known until later.

Bibliography

Olson, Lynne. Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Saved England. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

[1]  Lynne Olson, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Saved England (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007), 107.