American Reacts to Winston Churchill

I haven't even watched this video yet. I'm an older American and it's sad that the younger generation doesn't know who Winston Churchill is!

he was possibly the most important and influential figure of the 20th century, to say we would be living in a profoundly different world without this wonderful statemen would be an understatement.

Churchill’s ww2 “we will never surrender” speech gives me goosebumps.

When the British were trapped on the French beaches at Dunkirk, Churchill's decision to order every civilian boat across the English Channel to pick up as many soldiers as possible, saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

He is THE reason that you are able to do what you’re doing!

As a Canadian, I agree, Winston Churchill was the greatest man of his age. Hearing his speeches, while gathered around the radio, brought chills throughout your entire body. He could coax blood from a stone. He put such steel into the hearts of the Brits, they would never back down. My Mum was a Londoner and her family had their share of the horrors of the blitz. He was able to rally, and lift the spirits of his people at their darkest time.

The V "peace sign" Churchill used was actually a V for Victory back in those days. The hippies got hold of that in the 60's and made it something completely different.

The thing I love about your videos and you is how publically honest you are about what you know and don't know. As a British person, I watch your videos to see my country's history and culture from a different angle, and I always learn something from the questions you ask yourself while you watch the videos. Keep up the great work! Thanks.

It skipped him becoming Prime Minister, because is SO obvious that he was. Saying he had a big influence on WWII for the UK is ridiculously obvious and an understatement. He had a profound influence on WWII for the world. He kept Britain opposed to Hitler (NO defeats or deals) throughout the entire war, even when it stood alone in Europe against Germany (1940-41). This was the only reason that D-Day in 1944 was remotely possible because it launched its invasion of Nazi-occupied France from a Britain that had not been successfully invaded or broken by Germany.

Tyler, here are a couple of points about Winston. When Winston addressed congress he started by thanking the leader of the house for allowing him to be there. And then he said, "My mother was American and my father English, if it had been the other way round I might have made it here on my own." The house loved that. It was he who coined the phrase "The Iron Curtain", after WW2. He was directly descended from the first Duke of Marlborough who has a claim to being our greatest ever military general with the Duke of Wellington. The two finger signal you saw was not a peace sign it meant "V For Victory". There are quite a few books with Winston's quotes. I'm sure you would enjoy them. Example "A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject but short enough to create interest"

Hadn't heard of such a famous man ,I thought everyone in the western world new Sir Winston Churchill and what he did for the world .

The greatest ever Britton. May he rest in eternal peace.

Royalty and nobility are not the same thing. Royalty is the immediate royal family. Nobility is the aristocracy. Not the same

Churchill also won the Nobel Prize for literature for writing the three volume work " A History of the English Speaking Peoples.' He had a very deep love of country.

He saved Britain and the world because he enabled the allies to launch D Day in 1944 which would not have been possible had we not won the Battle of Britain 1940. He was a huge world figure. It seems to me that Americans only learn about the American War of Independence and do not seem to know about world history at all.

My father joined the army at 14 as an apprentice mechanical and electrical engineer (he had become an orphan). He survived the WW11 and retired from the army as a major. The only time I saw my father cry, was the death of Churchill.

Winston Churchill made it possible for you to live your life without knowing or caring what he did for you.

He also won a Nobel prize for literature and was an accomplished artist; his art work now fetches high prices. I remember his funeral in 1965.

As a child, my parents took me up to London to pay our respects after Churchill died. We spent hours and hours queuing, walking slowly across bridges and down roads. My parents had both fought in WWII and they regarded him as the greatest, having saved our nation from Hitler. You ask if he was a great orator - you should listen to his speech "we will fight them on the beaches".

My favourite quote from Winston was about Clement Attlee. “Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.” Brilliant.