<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dunkirk evacuation">Dunkirk evacuation</a> ends: the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Armed_Forces" id="mw2g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="British Armed Forces">British Armed Forces</a> completes evacuation of 338,000 troops from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk" id="mw2w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Dunkirk">Dunkirk</a> in France. To rally the morale of the country, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill" id="mw3A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> delivers, only to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" id="mw3Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a>, his famous "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_shall_fight_on_the_beaches" id="mw3g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="We shall fight on the beaches">We shall fight on the beaches</a>" speech.