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Interwar (1918-1939) and the Second WW (1939-1945) - Coggle Diagram
Interwar (1918-1939) and the Second WW (1939-1945)
Background
VE (Victory in Europe) Day - 8 May 1945
383 000 military + 67 000 civilian deaths
The Roaring 20s and The Great Depression
Heads of State
Monarchs
George V (r.1910–1936)
Edward VIII (r. 1936)
George VI (r. 1936–1952)
PMs
Churchill (i.o. 1940–1945)
Literature
Agatha Christie - "Hercule Poirot" (1920) and "Miss Marple" (1927)
George Orwell - "Animal Farm" (1945)
(USA) Ernest Hemingway - "The Sun Also Rises" (1927) and "A Farewell to Arms" (1929)
The Abdication of Edward VIII
Edward VIII ruled in 1936 (I-XII)
The bride Wallis Simpson = an American divorcée
A constitutional crisis
The King was the head of the Church of England