2.
Battle on the river Somme (1 july 1916)
Battle at Passchendaele (400,000 dead and wounded)
Victory on Dardanelles (1917)
Battle at Jutlad (Admiral Jellicoe)
5 million soldiers (750 000 casualties)
Versailles 1919
The First World War
5.
Founded in 1874-1900
Trade Unions
New voting system
57 seats in 1918 and 191 seats 1923
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Communist Party)
Liberal Party fall (1924)
Conservative Party and Labour Party
The rise of the Labour Party
7.
1870 Right to vote
1888 exqual work-equal pay law
1897-1914 suffragettes
1918 29% workers were women
Divorces 800 in 1910, 8,000 in 1940
The rights of women
9.
The Easter Rising 1916 in Dublin
1918 new parliament in Dail,Dublin
1921 independence of southern Ireland
1937 Eamon de Valera, Prime minister declared
Ireland Republic
Ireland
11.
1914 outbreak of strikes
1926 general strike
1925 miners strike
1930-1933 5 million unemployed
1934 Recovery of industry
1937 British heavy industry
The great depression
12.
1920 League of Nations
1935 Italy invaded Ethiopia
1939 German invaded Poland
22 June operation Barbarossa
D-day 6th of June 1944
May 1945 defeat of Germany
September the 1st 1945 End of World War II
303,000 military and 60,000 civil casualties
The Second World War
13.
Teodor Rusvelt’s “Four Freedoms”
Soviet union formed Warsaw pact and Western
countries formed NATO
First nuclear power station 1956
1956 battle of Suez and British defeat
1960 Britain interested in European Community
The new international order
15.
1950 30% bigger wages than in 1939, car production
doubled, living standard increased
Popular culture
The Beatles
1 in 3 marriages ended in divorce
Increased popularity of the Royal Family
1952 Elizabeth II became the Queen
Youthful Britain
16.
1947 British left India
1965 most of the colonies were self-governing
Treaty through Commonwealth
1982 Britain had defeated Argentinians at the
Falklands
1985 Britain had only Hong Kong ,Falklands and
Gibraltar
The loss of empire
18.
67% of people in Ulster were Protestant
1969 protests began in Ulster
1972 Northern Ireland government was removed
1985 formal agreement was made in Hillsborogh
Northern Ireland
19.
1970 Party of fellow contrymen Paid Cymru
1981 only 19% spoke Welsh
1974 Scottish Nationalist Party
54% was for limited form of self-government
Scotland and Wales
20.
1980 4/5 had telephones, 2/3 had cars and homes
Britain joins European Community 1973
1960 250, 000 coloured immigrants
1985 56 million coloured citizens
1985 58% wives had jobs
1985 3,5 unemployed
The years of discontent
21.
1979 Margaret Thatcher was elected
1983 Conservative party won 144/650 seats
Industrial production have declined 10% and
manufactoring production by 17%
1987 Privatisation of Airline,Ship builders,Airspace...
1986 41% was unemployed, among black population
82%
The new politics