Blood,_Toil,_And_Sweat

Blood, Toil, And Sweat I. Introduction A. Attention-grabber: 1. Everyone knows who Winston Churchill is, and most of you have probably heard of some of his speeches. Can I get a show of hands of who has heard of either one of these speeches; “Iron Curtain” and “Finest Hour”' Ok, now can I get a show of hands of who has heard of his, “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” speech' Thank you, but what you may not realize is, if he didn’t act as quickly as what he did when he became Prime Minister and by giving this speech only three days after being sworn in, he may not have ever given the other speeches because England may have fallen to Nazi Germany. B. Overview: 1. Churchill gave this speech only three days after being sworn in as Prime Minister. He chooses his Cabinet Members in the days prior to the speech. 2. Nazi Germany is conquering all of Europe. England was receiving messages of disaster from Holland, Belgium, and France (Broad, 1963, 41). The Dutch Army had laid down it’s arms and the Germans had reached the Channel ports by the time Churchill had met with all of his Cabinet members for the first time (Broad, churchill, speech, house, prime, minister, commons, new, war, cabinet, because, churchill’s, being, winston, victory, both, appointed, time, show, one, hope, deliberative, country, chamberlain, cannadine, 1989, people, members, long, government, good, england, ceremonial, broad, 1963, wanted