Eighty-five years ago today, on May 10, 1940 (April 4, 1940), Churchill was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on the verge of death. Even if London were reduced to ashes, it would be many times better than being a German slave - Winston Churchill On May 10, 1940, Winston Churchill, a fierce critic of Britain's appeasement of Hitler, proudly stepped into the House of Commons as Prime Minister to deliver his first speech. "There is nothing else I can offer to the people," Churchill said. "There is only blood, tears and sweat." Churchill formed a new government at the request of King George VI three days ago after Chamberlain resigned. Chamberlain was forced to resign under growing pressure from the Labour Party and his own Conservative Party. Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British politician. Born into an aristocratic family. Graduated from the Royal Military Academy in 1894, joined the army in 1895 and participated in the British wars in India, Sudan and South Africa. In 1906, he entered the House of Commons as a Liberal MP and served as a minister in various governments. In January 1919, he became Minister of the Army and actively participated in the armed intervention in Soviet Russia. In 1922, he quit the Liberal Party and joined the Conservative Party. In the 1930s, he opposed appeasement, advocated increased military spending, and opposed the signing of the Munich Agreement. After the outbreak of World War II, he served as Minister of the Navy in Chamberlain's government. After the German invasion of France, Chamberlain was forced to step down. On May 10, 1940, Churchill became Prime Minister and Minister of Defense in the coalition government, forming a wartime cabinet. Churchill was determined to carry out the war against Hitler's Germany to the end. In the early days of the war, Britain suffered a series of defeats. After France surrendered, Hitler tried to induce Britain to negotiate peace, but Churchill refused. So the Germans bombarded the British Isles indiscriminately, but failed to force Britain to submit. Churchill took a series of measures at home to cope with the war. The Emergency Powers Act was passed on May 22, 1940, which increased the government's control over the economic life and human and material resources of the country in time of war. The National Self-Defense Force was established in May 1940 to strengthen the British defense force. After the Soviet Union and the United States entered the war in 1941, Britain immediately joined hands with the anti-fascist countries. On July 12, 1941, the British and the Soviet Union signed an agreement on joint operations against Germany in Moscow. On August 14, 1941, Churchill and Roosevelt issued the Atlantic Charter. Churchill also held a series of meetings with Roosevelt and Stalin in the later stages of the war, and held the Cairo Conference, the Tehran Conference and the Yalta Conference to discuss the issue of war against Germany and Japan. At the same time, a series of agreements were reached on the arrangement of the postwar world. Churchill led the British people to contribute to the victory of the war. The war in Europe ended on May 8, 1945. In July, the British general election was held. Churchill resigned after defeat and gave way to a Labour government. On March 5, 1946, Churchill delivered the Fulton Address in the United States, advocating the Anglo-American alliance against the Soviet Union and opening the prelude to the "Cold War". In October 1951, the Conservative Party won the parliamentary election, and Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom again. During his second term, he basically maintained the nationalization policy of some enterprises and social welfare policies of the Labour government. He successfully tested the first atomic bomb in the field of defense and became the third country to possess nuclear weapons. In terms of foreign policy, he took the Anglo-American alliance as the foundation of foreign policy and took a tough attitude towards the Soviet Union. In October 1954, he promoted the signing of the London-Paris Agreement, which enabled West Germany to join NATO. In September of the same year, Britain joined the "South East Asia Treaty Organization" and later joined the "Central Treaty Organization". On April 5, 1955, Churchill resigned due to age and health reasons. Churchill was knighted in 1953, awarded the Garter Medal, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the same year. Author of "World Crisis", "History of the English-speaking People", "Memoirs of the Second World War", etc. Died on January 24, 1965. Chamberlain Churchill, who stepped down due to appeasement, visited the Royal Navy