The Churchill war ministry was the United Kingdom's unity coalition government for most of the Second World War from 10 May 1940 to 23 May 1945. It was led by Winston Churchill, who was appointed Prim
Churchill's ministers on 24 October 1941.
The Churchill caretaker ministry was a short-term United Kingdom government during the latter stages of the Second World War, from 23 May to 26 July 1945. The prime minister was Winston Churchill, lea
Churchill war ministry
…Churchill, who was the leader of the Conservative Party, was asked by the King to form a new, essentially Conservative, government. It was known as the Churchill caretaker ministry, and managed the country's affairs until completion of the general election on 26 July that year. The 1935 general election had resulted in a Conservative…
Winston Churchill speaking on 27 June 1945 during the general election campaign
Winston Churchill (c) with Ernest Bevin (r) and Sir John Anderson (l) waving to the crowds in Whitehall on VE Day. Anderson joined the caretaker ministry but Bevin and his Labour colleagues did not.
Contemporary cartoon by John F. Knott for The Dallas Morning News. It depicts Churchill as the "caretaker on the job" – in reality, Churchill was a keen amateur bricklayer.
The area occupied by Soviet troops (red) after the German surrender, and the zone from which British and US troops withdrew in July 1945 (purple). The red and purple areas became the Soviet Zone of Occupation and eventually postwar East Germany. The provincial boundaries are those of pre-Nazi Weimar Germany, before the present Länder were established.