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nounEnglish general considered one of the greatest generals in history (1650-1722)
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nounBritish statesman and leader during World War II; received Nobel prize for literature in 1953 (1874-1965)
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nouna Canadian town in northern Manitoba on Hudson Bay; important port for shipping grainpart of:
Definition that contains churchill
- yalta a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945
- churchillian of or relating to or suggestive of Winston Churchill
- kentucky derby an annual race for three-year-old horses; held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky
- potsdam conference a conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended
- 1st baron beaverbrook British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
- william maxwell aitken British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
- beaverbrook British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
- iron curtain an impenetrable barrier to communication or information especially as imposed by rigid censorship and secrecy; used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe the demarcation between democratic and communist countries
- yalta conference a conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe