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July 26th 1945. The war still raged in the Pacific, where thousands of British soldiers were still fighting the Japanese army. In Britain, now freed from the dangers of bombings and air raids, a nation had been to the polls. Churchill had broken off talks with the American and Russian leaders at the Potsdam Conference to return to Britain. The results of this General Election surprised the whole nation, not in the least Clement Attlee, the modest leader of the Labour party and now in his way to Buckingham Palace to receive instructions from the King to form a new government. The people of Britain had always gathered behind Winston Churchill as wartime leader, who, in those dark years, mobilised and encouraged an entire nation. He was still considered a war hero by many and this landslide victory by the Labour party came as a shock, not only to Churchill himself, who at the last moment claimed to have had a foreboding feeling of......

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Title: British History 1945-1951
Approximate Word Count: 1219
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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