In wartime, Churchill continued to lead the British people to fight with an iron will. He ordered the withdrawal of British troops in France, code name? Generator plan? The Dunkirk retreat has begun. In just eight days, the allied forces trapped in a small area around Dunkirk miraculously evacuated more than 330,000 people, which is a miracle. He also contributed to the passage of the loan bill by the US Congress, which gave Britain a lot of weapons aid. Germany declared war on the Soviet Union. He gave up his previous hostility to the Soviet Union, joined forces with the Soviet Union against German fascism, and signed the Atlantic Charter with the United States to provide assistance to the Soviet Union. Later, he attended Yalta Conference, Potsdam Conference and Cairo Conference, and met with leaders such as Roosevelt and Stalin many times to discuss the post-war world situation.
1945 On May 7, Germany announced its unconditional surrender, and Churchill announced to the British people the next day that Britain had won the war against Germany. After World War II, the wartime cabinet must also be dissolved. Churchill was forced to resign and hold a general election. The Conservative Party, which was confident that Churchill's contribution to the war would be successful, was defeated in the general election. Although Churchill himself was elected as a member of parliament, the Conservative Party won only 197 seats, while the Labour Party won 393 seats and was able to form a cabinet. Labor Party leader Clement? Attlee was elected Prime Minister. Unexpectedly, Churchill, who led the British people to victory, was abandoned.
Faced with this result, Churchill later quoted Plutarch, an ancient Greek writer, as saying that ingratitude for his great people is a symbol of a great nation. ? In fact, there are two main reasons why Churchill suffered a fiasco in this election. First, during the war, Churchill's Conservative Party devoted all its energy to military affairs and diplomacy, ignoring people's livelihood, and gave the Labour Party a chance to win more seats in the election. According to the regulations, the leader of the political party with the most seats is the Prime Minister. Due to the failure of Churchill's Conservative Party, Churchill followed suit.
The second reason is that Churchill, the hot-blooded prime minister, made the British people love and hate each other. Churchill was famous for his iron blood. He once took tough measures against domestic workers' strikes and suppressed them by force, which was accused by the world. In wartime, Britain needed an iron-blooded prime minister like Churchill to lead Britain to victory. But after the war, the British economy was depressed, and the people were tired of the war and needed to recuperate. And many people regard Churchill as a warmonger, and they don't need Churchill as an iron-blooded prime minister anymore. Therefore, the British people decisively abandoned the Conservative Party and Churchill.
In short, Churchill's fiasco in the general election after World War II was unexpected, but it was also reasonable, not accidental. What do you think, gentlemen? Then the cold war began and the Churchill era came again. In the general election of 195 1, the Conservative Party returned to power and Churchill became prime minister again.