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Quiz about A Great Winston Churchill Speech
Quiz about A Great Winston Churchill Speech

A Great Winston Churchill Speech Quiz


This is a quiz about Winston Churchill's famous speech generally referred to as "We Shall Fight on the Beaches".

by mazza47. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
mazza47
Time
3 mins
Type
Quiz #
415,516
Updated
Feb 20 24
# Qns
17
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
15 / 17
Plays
261
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Johnmcmanners (17/17), klotzplate (17/17), Guest 76 (0/17).
"The British Empire and the French , linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the their native soil, aiding each other like good to the utmost of their strength.
"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the of the Gestapo and all the odious of Nazi rule, we shall not or fail.
"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in , we shall fight on the seas and , we shall fight with growing and growing strength in the , we shall defend our , whatever the cost may be.
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the , we shall fight in the fields and in the , we shall fight in the ; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and by the British fleet, would carry on the , until, in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the of the old."
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Most Recent Scores
Oct 21 2024 : Johnmcmanners: 17/17
Oct 15 2024 : klotzplate: 17/17
Oct 15 2024 : Guest 76: 0/17
Oct 15 2024 : Guest 5: 3/17
Sep 18 2024 : tesselate9: 13/17

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
Answer:

Winston Churchill made this speech to the Commons on June 4th 1940, just 9 months after the start of the war and less than a month after the French defences at Sedan and on the Meuse were broken. Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk had begun just over a week earlier and the peril facing Britain was clear to all. Miraculously, over 338,000 Allied troops reached England, including 26,000 French soldiers, but with France now fallen the threat of invasion was more real than ever. In an earlier part of the speech, he said, "We must be very careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations." Churchill was at pains to balance two delicate points in his speech: the danger of an impending Nazi invasion and the need to rally public support for the war effort.

Churchill had become prime minister on May 10th and as he later wrote: "I felt...that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial". He was an inspired orator and it is for his leadership through the fraught years of 1940 and 1941 that he is best remembered.

He served two terms as prime minister and like the Duke of Wellington and William Gladstone before him, Churchill was given a state funeral when he died in 1965 at the age of 90.
Source: Author mazza47

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