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What did Winston Churchill do during World War II?

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As prime minister (1940ā€“45) during most of World War II, Winston Churchill rallied the British people and led the country from the brink of defeat to victory. He shaped Allied strategy in the war, and in the warā€™s later stages he alerted the West to the expansionist threat of the Soviet Union.