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Churchill later entered politics. He first followed in his father's (Lord Randolph
Churchill) Conservative Party footsteps, but his desire for social reform drove him
to switch to the Liberal Party. (He would later flip back to Conservative.) For three
decades, Churchill held numerous government posts, serving as Chancellor of This,
Undersecretary of That, and Minister of The Other. He earned praise for prison re-
form and for developing newfangled airplanes for warfare; he was criticized for the
heavy-handed way he broke labor strikes and for bungling the pacification of Iraq.
During World War I, he took a break from politics to personally command British
troops on the Western Front.
In 1929, Churchill-the-career-bureaucrat retired from politics. He wrote books
(History of the English-Speaking Peoples) and spoke out about the growing threat
of fascist Germany. When World War II broke out, Prime Minister Chamberlain's
appeasement policies were discredited, and—on the day that Germany invaded the
Netherlands—the king appointed Churchill as prime minister. Churchill guided the
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