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FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH - Coggle Diagram
FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE TO
THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
POST-WORLD WAR I ENGLAND
(1920s)
RISING UNEMPLOYMENT
GENERAL STIKE IN 1926
FINANCIAL CRISIS
DEBT AND INFLATION
SUFFRAGETTES
VOTING RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
OVER 30 IN 1918
THE
GREAT DEPRESSION
DECLINE OF BRITAIN'S INDUSTRIAL NORTH
MORE SOCIAL REFORMS
Unemployment subsidy
Public assistance
1929
: WALL STREET CRASH IMPACT
DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE
POLITICAL DEVOLUTION
1931: STATUTE OF
WESTMINSTER
DOMINION INDEPENDENCE
AUSTRALIA
NEW ZELAND
CANADA
SOUTH AFRICA
RISE OF NATIONALIS MOVEMENTS
POST-WORLD WAR II
WEAKENING
HEAVY WAR DEBT
EMERGENCE OF US
AND USSR
1947: INDEPENDENCE
OF INDIA
1997: RETURN OF HONG KONG
TO CHINA
COMMONWEALTH
VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION
OF 56 COUNTRIES
KING CHARLES III
AS SYMBOLIC HEAD
:
NO FORMAL CONSTITUTION
Government Meetings every two years
COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT
SUPPORT
SHARED PRINCIPLES:
HUMAN RIGHTS, PEACE
IMPERIAL LEGACY
EXPLOITATION AND LOSS
MODERNIZATION