CHURCHILL TAKES OVER

10 MAY 1940 3 SEPTEMBER 1939 Churchill appointed to the Admiralty. 5 OCTOBER 1939 Churchill begins a five-year confidential correspondence with US President Roosevelt. 7 APRIL 1940 Churchill gives the order to lay mines in Norwegian coastal waters. 15 MAY 1940 Churchill and the War Cabinet approve the bombing of German towns. 22 MAY 1940 Emergency Powers Act passed in Britain, giving Churchill exceptional wartime authority. 26 MAY 1940 Operation “Dynamo” launched to rescue British forces trapped at Dunkirk. 4 JUNE 1940 Churchill declares in House of Commons “We shall never surrender”. 9 NOVEMBER 1940 Neville Chamberlain dies. No figure so dominates the early history of the Second World War as Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. He came to symbolize British resistance to Hitler, and his determination to fight on, whatever…

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