An excerpt from Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech to the Parliament of the United Kingdom on June 18, 19401:
I spoke the other day of the colossal military disaster which occurred when the French High Command failed to withdraw the northern Armies from Belgium at the moment when they knew that the French front was decisively broken at Sedan and on the Meuse. This delay entailed the loss of fifteen or sixteen French divisions and threw out of action for the critical period the whole of the British Expeditionary Force. Our Army and 120,000 French troops were indeed rescued by the British Navy from
Dunkirk but only with the loss of their cannon, vehicles and modern equipment.
1. Winston Churchill, "Their Finest Hour" (speech), London, England, June 18, 1940, Churchill Centre, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston- churchill/122-their-finest-hour.
When was this primary source created?
A. At the end of World War II
B. Before the start of World War II
C. June 18, 1940
D. At the end of World War I
