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General Strike
In 1926, a General Strike was called by the Trades Union Congress in support of the coal miners' stand against enforced pay-cuts. It lasted only nine days in May but brought large parts of Britain to a standstill, including London where there were armoured cars on Oxford Street. -
Wall Street Crash
The strength of America's economy in the 1920's came to a sudden end in October 1929. -
The Great Depression
In the 1920s, Britain's economy was already struggling to pay for the effects of World War I. Then, in 1929, the US stock market crashed. World trade slumped, prices fell, credit dried up, and many countries protected their domestic market by taxing foreign imports. -
Hitlers rise to power
Hitler promised to get Germany free of the Treaty of Versailles (gaining the trust of many). He also promised to solve the unemployment issue. Hitler had burned the Reichstag and blamed it on the communists and used the fear to become the Führer. -
Jarrow March
The Jarrow march took place in 1936. The marches involved hundreds of unemployed coal and shipyard workers men marching 300 miles from Jarrow to London, in protest to the suffering that depression had brought to the people from the north. Depression was an economic down time in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s that caused major retrenchments in the country, and the marchers wanted back their jobs. -
World War Two begins
It involved many of the world's countries. he Second World War was started by Germany in an unprovoked attack on Poland. Britain and France declared war on Germany after Hitler had refused to abort his invasion of Poland. -
The Holocust
The Holocaust is the name given to the murder of millions of Jews, Gypsies etc. by the Nazis during World War Two. During the Holocaust, factories of death, such as at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sobibor, Chelmno and Treblinka, were built to ensure that the mass murders were carried out. -
Dunkirk evacuation
27/05/1940 - 04/06/1940
Was the evucation of British troops from Dunkirk. -
Battle of Britian
The Battle of Britain took place between August and September 1940. After the success of Blitzkrieg, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the surrender of France, Britain was by herself. -
Pearl Harbour
Japanese fighter planes attack an American bases. -
Arnhem
Starting date; 17/09/1944 Ending date: 26/09/1944
This was an attempt to end World War Two early. -
Battle of the Bulge
Starting a 16/12/1944 and ending in 23/01/1945
This was an last attemp to break up the alliance by Hitler -
Atomic Bomb is dropped
At approximately 8.15am on 6 August 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, instantly killing around 80,000 people. Three days later, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, causing the deaths of 40,000 more. The dropping of the bombs, which occurred by executive order of US President Harry Truman, remains the only nuclear attack in history.
