HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS CHURCHILL'S WARTIME LEADERSHIP?

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HOW SUCCESSFUL WAS CHURCHILL'S WARTIME LEADERSHIP?

Advantages

  • Powerful speeches - boosted morale
  • Humorous, Charming, Rebellious
  • Morale boosting visits
  • Worked hard long shifts
  • Generous to those who pleased him
  • Made strong relationships with allies
  • Hands on
  • Does anything to protect the interests of Britain
  • Confident in his ways and always willing to prove it
  • Military experience - First Lord of the Admiralty
  • Was right about the Nazi's
  • Flamboyance - personality, outfits, speaking etc
  • "The man that won the war"

Disadvantages

  • Lost the people's vote
  • Bad tempered
  • Was prone to favoritism
  • Made ridiculous accusations
  • Obsessed with war
  • Always a man of action
  • Shied away from domestic policies
  • Blinded by friendships
  • Strayed away from the rest of his party
  • Norway campaign
  • Always on the offensive
  • Fired those who pointed out his errors
  • Interfered in matters that do not concern him
  • Constantly altered plans + left soldiers confused
  • Old-fashioned approach

Evaluation

Churchill was definitely the kind of Prime Minister that Britain needed in the time of the war. He protected the British Empire at all costs, which despite it causing problems, he always had made Britain his priority which is a quality that all Prime Minister's should have. Though after the war, Churchill lost his purpose as Prime Minister. He was a man who structured his specialties around war, so when WWII finished, people wanted a new Britain - and Churchill could not provide that as he lacked the ability to handle domestic matters.

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