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Winston Churchill: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Winston Churchill, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

• Fewer than 3,000 pilots decided whether Britain would be invaded in 1940

  Through the summer and autumn of 1940, RAF Fighter Command held off the Luftwaffe's campaign to win air superiority ahead of a planned German invasion, forcing Hitler to indefinite…

  — Winston Churchill (tribute); RAF Fighter Command, Battle of Britain

• Churchill coined 'Iron Curtain' in a small-town Missouri college gymnasium

  On 5 March 1946, no longer prime minister, Winston Churchill traveled to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, to deliver a speech formally titled 'The Sinews of Peace.' In it h…

  — Winston Churchill, The Sinews of Peace (Fulton Speech)

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