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HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1901-1945 - Coggle Diagram
HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1901-1945
UK 1906:
Labour Party
in the House of Commons (50 seats)
heavier taxes on land for the rich
pensions for old people
Health and Insurance act (sick / unemployed workers)
KINGS
(UK)
Edward VII (1901-1910)
social and political changes for a more just society
George VI (1936- 1952)
WW2
George V (1910-1936)
industrial unrest, decline in main industries
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1St WORLD WAR
Britain is threatened by war and starts recruitment
4th August 1914: Britain declares war on Germany
Germany's empire began to expand
Germany invades France
sophisticated weapons: machine-guns, tanks, planes
"Great War", made in trenches
9 million deaths + 25 million injuried in the world
Peace Treaty signed in Versailles in 1919
League of Nations was set up (but US and Russia refused to join)
THE IRISH QUESTION
Easter Monday 1916: rebellion in DUblin (Sinn Fein)
Michael Collins - IRA (Irish Republican Army)
goal: independence
Irish Republicans : military force
Irish rebellion against British rule
1921: compromise
Southern (Catholic) Ireland: independent
protestant Northern Ireland
Ulster (British descendants)
2ND WORLD WAR
1941 Pearl Harbour
US entered the war
D-Day 6th August 1944
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speeches
35 million deaths, 2 atomic bombs
Britain declares war on Germany 1939
1945 Yalta
dictators
Spain
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Germany
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Italy
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Wall Street crash 1929
unemployment
social reforms
unemployment subsidy
Public Assistance
world impact
Cinema/Hollywood as escape
Growing racial tensions
(US)
poorer inner-city areas, ghettos
Ku Klux Klan
new suburbs