The Age of Anxiety

By Lupus65
  • Queen Victoria’s death

    Queen Victoria’s death

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    Edward VII (Edwardian Age)

    He modernized the fleet and the army.
    He was a popular public figure.
    He cultivated good relationships with other leaders.
    He promoted social change and reforms
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    Industrial development, reforms, prosperity in the USA.

    • 19th Amendment (1920).
    • The "Roaring Twenties".
    • Cinema, cars, radio.
    • Black population.
    • National parks.
    • Panama canal

  • General elections

    • Very high turnout (83.2%).
    • Only 60% of men had the right to vote. No women.
    • More aggressive approach --> WSPU, Suffragettes.
    • They helped Britain at war.
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    George V

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    WW1

    • Triple Alliance
    • Triple Entente
    • Immediate cause
    • A bloody conflict
    • Consequences
  • The Irish Question

    The Irish Question

    • Home Rule postponed.
    • Easter Rising
    • Irish Free State

  • The USA enters WW1

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  • The Representation of the People Act

    The Representation of the People Act

    Voting rights for all women over 30 who were property owners.

  • Peace Treaty of Versailles

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    The Rise of Totalitarianism

    • Mussolini, 1922.
    • Hitler, 1933.
    • Franco 1939.
  • The General Strike

    The General Strike

    • Economic and industrial decline.
    • Reasons for the strike.
    • Paralysis of the transport network.
    • Intervention of the government.
    • Defeat of the strikers.

  • Equal right to vote for women and men.

  • The Wall Street Crash

    The Wall Street Crash

    • Consequences in Britain of The Great Depression.
    • Causes and consequences in the USA.

  • The Balfour Declaration

    • The British Commonwealth of Nations.
    • Indipendence of India (1947).
  • Election of F.D. Roosevelt

    Election of F.D. Roosevelt

  • Italy invades Abissinia

  • The Windsor

    The Windsor

    • A new name (1917).
    • A new king (1936).

  • Germany annexes Austria.

  • German invasion of Poland.

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    The Second World War

    • Britain's reluctance.
    • Invasions.
    • Churchill.
    • USA in war.
    • Atomic bombs.
    • Movements of Resistance.
    • Shoah.
    • Nuremberg Trials.

  • Winston Churchill replaces Chamberlain as Prime Minister.

  • Pearl Harbor

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    Social Welfare

    • From the cradle to the grave.

  • D-Day

  • Britain, France, the USA and the USSR achieve victory in Europe.

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    Nuremberg Trials

  • Hiroshima

  • The Marshall Plan

    • Goals.
    • ERP.

  • British National Health Service Act

  • NATO

    NATO

    • Reason.
    • The Warsaw Pact (1955).