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CHAPTER 21- THE LIBERALS IN POWER, 1905-1914 - Coggle Diagram
CHAPTER 21- THE LIBERALS IN POWER, 1905-1914
New liberalism
New Liberals were Asquith, Churchill, and Lloyd George + thinkers such as J.A. Hobson, L.T. Hobhouse, Seebohm Rowntree => State had to interfere in order to get rid of poverty (poors were not free so unable to self-help) + rich were rich thanks to workers => workers = necessary
Proposals : old age pension, minimum wage and increasing taxes of the land and incomes on the wealthy BUT still wanted to respect core values of liberalism
End of 19th century = end of the pre-eminence of the old laissez-faire gladstonian liberalism + Smith/Ricardo etc.
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Tensions with the Liberal gvt=> Commons vs Lords, Suffragette, Ireland, Osborne Judgment, industrial unrest (syndicalism)…
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The Strange death of the Liberal in England? => many pbs, but WWI was really what brought the party to explode (Asquith/ Lloyd George). Otherwise it may have survived since it eventually tackled with the issues.
Foreign policy => PM = Sir Edward Grey (1905-1914) => Many crises (Moroccan crisis of 1905, Bosnia Crisis, Agadir Crisis, Balkan Wars) + economic and naval rivalry with Germany => the Entente was strengthened and increase tension with the Germans with the alliance. Grey succeeded in strengthening the entente, failed to make peace with Germany. The army had been modernized (naval race with British Dreadnought).