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Nicholas Winton was a British humanitarian born in 1909 in London to German Jewish parents. During World War II, Winton organized the rescue of 699 mostly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by arranging for their transportation to Britain. He kept his role in this rescue mission secret for over 50 years until his story was featured on a BBC television program in 1988. For his humanitarian efforts saving hundreds of children from the Holocaust, Winton received numerous honors and awards, and in 2002 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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Winston Churchill was a British politician and statesman born in 1874. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a key leader in World War II, rallying British resistance against Nazi Germany after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. He helped shape the post-war world by attending conferences with US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 and continued his political career until his death in 1965.
A walk trough the most important events that 2
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1) Queen Victoria's death in 1901 which marked the end of the aristocracy era.
2) The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 which resulted in the deaths of 1,517 people.
3) World War 1 from 1914-1918 and World War 2 from 1939-1945, both of which left Britain with heavy losses.
4) The rise of The Beatles in the 1960s which sparked "Beatlemania".
5) The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1981 which attracted great interest since Diana was a commoner.
Unit 06 World War II
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U.S. History Ch. 11
1. Three countries turned to fascism after WWI: Italy under Mussolini, Germany under Hitler, and militarist Japan. Fascism emphasized the supremacy of the state over individuals and expanding territory by war.
2. The US initially pursued isolationism after WWI but Roosevelt believed in international cooperation. Germany annexed Austria and territories of other nations unopposed under the policy of "appeasement."
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