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Britain
In 1900, Britain was one of the Great Powers with the biggest empire in the world. -
Queen Victoria I
Queen Victoria I, was queen of the United Kingdom and Empress of India. Acceded to the throne in 1838 and died in 1901.Her reign of 63 years is the longest in the history of the United Kingdom. This period was called the Victorian era. -
Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was an agreement(no agression and regulation of colonial expansion) between United Kingdom and the French Third Republic.The signing of the Entente Cordiale marked the end of centuries of intermittent conflicts between the two nations and the beginning of a peaceful coexistence. -
Royal Commission
It was set up by the conservative government to investigate how the poor law should be changed. It oncluded Poor Law guardians, members of the Charity Organisation Society...It spent 4 year investigating and produced two conflicting reports(Majority report and Minority report, they had different political ideologies, but there was some common ground between them.
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Liberal Reforms
The Liberal reforms were acts of social legislation passed by the British Liberal Party after the 1906 General Election. The reforms demonstrate the split that had emerged within liberalism, between modern liberalism and classical liberalism.
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Acts of Liberal Reforms
- 1906 School Meals Act---In 1906 the School Meals Act allowed LEA (Local Education Authorities) to supply free school meals paid for out of rates.2. 1906 The workmen’s Compensation Act---Employers had to pay workers compensation for injuries and diseases it they had got them as a result of their work. It covered 6 million workers who hadn’t previously had any legal protection.
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Acts of Liberal Reforms
- 1907 Free medical inspections---Medical inspections began in 1907 but many poor families could not afford the cost of the doctors fees to get treated; it was not until 1912 that medical treatment was provided.
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Acts of Liberal Reforms
- 1908 Children’s Charter--- The Charter made illegally for children younger than 16 to buy cigarettes, go into a pub or beg.2. 1908 Old Age Pensions Act---In 1908, pensions were introduced for those over 70. They were paid 5s a week to single men and women and 7s 6d to married couples. Introduced by David Lloyd George’s.
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Acts of Liberal Reforms
- Trade Board Act---Winston Churchill and William Beveridge put together the Trade Board Act setting a minimum wage, and also worked on the Labour Exchanges Act, setting up job centres
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Acts of Liberal Reforms
- 1911 The National Insurance Act---It provided healh insurance for workers earning less than £160 per year and dealt with unemployment insurance, workers were given seven shillings in unemployment benefit which could be claimed for up to 15 weeks a year.
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Britain in the World War I
Britain entered in the war because the Germans decided to attack France from the north, crossing the neutral Belgium, then the British sent an ultimatum to Germany to get away of Belgium, but Germany refused son England joined France against Germany. Britain declared was on 4 August 1914.At the beginnig of the First World War, Britain was allied to France and Russia, by an agreement called the Triple Entente.
Britain sent the Bristish Expeditionary Force to help France and Belgium. -
New British commander
After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Sir Douglas Haig helped to create the British Expeditionary Force commanded by John French. Jonh Frenchwanted a deployment of British troops in Belgium to stop the passage of the Germans to France, while Douglas Haig and the new Secretary of State for War,thouht that Belgium was lost and defended the idea of establish the quarter of the BEF in Amiens, where it would be a counterattack.
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BEF in Somme
British attacked Somme in order to relieve the pressure in Verdum, which was attacked by Germany.In this battle Douglas Haig was very criticized, because people said he could have waited for more tanks or once he saw the first day's slaughter he could have changed his tactics. But also many people said he was good because he couldn’t wait for more tanks, he had to relieve the pressure on Verdun or the whole war would be lost and because Douglas Haig had learnt to adapt these attacking tactic. -
Britain at the end of World War I
No war in history had produced so many casualties. It felt as though the loss of huge numbers of young men had changed the balance of society.
Soldiers who’d been through the War were even more disillusioned when they returned home.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George supported the repair of damage, but not as much as France. Was aware that if French demands were met, this would acquire enormous power in Central Europe. He did not want this to happen, but wanted Germany to pay. -
Depression in Britain
It was during the 1930s.
The Great Depression in the United Kingdom, was a period of national economic downturn, which had its origins in the global Great Depression. It was Britain's largest and most profound economic depression of the 20th century. Britain's world trade fell in half (1929–33), the output of heavy industry fell by a third the employment profits . At 1932, the unemployed people were about 3.5 million, and others had only part-time employment.
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Depression in Britain
Hardest hit by economic problems were the industrial and mining areas in the north of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. Unemployment reached 70% in some areas at the start of the 1930s and many families depended entirely on payments from local government known as the dole. The Conservative Party dominated and the Labour Party were seriously hurt. -
Muncih agreement
The Munich agreement was very popular in Britain due to no one in Britain wanted a war, also because many British politicians feared Communism and the USSR much more than Hitler and because Britain was also economically weak and its armed forces weren’t very strong. -
Beginnign of the World War II
The causes of World War II are the invasion of Poland, the Japanese invasion of China, the British and Dutch colonies and later the attack on Pearl Harbor.Also the World War II started because Britain and France protested in Germany
