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===First World War===
===First World War===
At Churchill's direction, the fleet was at its war station before war broke out in 1914, but it was never able to engage the Germans in a decisive early sea battle. Churchill supported the Gallipoli campaign to force a route to Constantinople (now Istambul). The gallipoli campaign was a unmitigated failure ( more so than any of the more famous western front campaigns). One of the main reasons for this however was Churchill was up against a military genius in Mustafa Kamal, the turkish general who would later found a secular Turkey. In fact the gallipoli campaign is so disastorous it still taints Churchill's reputation in Austrlia and New Zeeland (this was where the ANZACs, the regiment who the majority of those who died in the campaign were from). This failure caused his removal from the Admiralty in May 1915. Reporting to his regiment in the trenches of Belgium, he was under fire for three months before returning to Parliament. In 1917, he was appointed Minister of Munitions and in 1919, Secretary for War and Air.
At Churchill's direction, the fleet was at its war station before war broke out in 1914, but it was never able to engage the Germans in a decisive early sea battle. Churchill supported the Gallipoli campaign to force a route to Constantinople (now Istambul). The gallipoli campaign was a unmitigated failure ( more so than any of the more famous western front campaigns). One of the main reasons for this however was Churchill was up against a military genius in Mustafa Kamal, the turkish general who would later found a secular Turkey. In fact the gallipoli campaign is so disastorous it still taints Churchill's reputation in Australia and New Zeeland (this was where the ANZACs, the regiment who the majority of those who died in the campaign were from). This failure caused his removal from the Admiralty in May 1915. Reporting to his regiment in the trenches of Belgium, he was under fire for three months before returning to Parliament. In 1917, he was appointed Minister of Munitions and in 1919, Secretary for War and Air.
===1920s===
===1920s===