BRITAIN BETWEEN THE WARS

THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION The .............. PARTY rose rapidly and ............................ became stronger. LABOUR TRADE UNIONS There was a dispute about wages between coal miners and mine owners which led to the ........................................ GENERAL STRIKE OF 1926. The ......................................... in New York in 1929 started a serious economic crisis, both in America and Europe, known as the ....................................... WALL STREET CRASH GREAT DEPRESSION.

THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION HEAVY INDUSTRY in the .............. declined and LIGHT INDUSTRY in the ................ expanded. NORTH SOUTH THEREFORE The movement of population from the SOUTH to the NORTH, which had been typical of the .............................................. , was reversed. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION The BRITISH ........... dissolved into the BRITISH ................................... OF NATIONS, which was formalised in 1931. EMPIRE COMMONWEALTH The COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES are independent BUT they recognise the British monarch as their head of state. they are bound to Britain by trading agreements. they share common goals and values.

WHY? THEREFORE THE ROYAL FAMILY George V died in ......... 1936. He was succeeded by his son ............... Edward VIII. He was a popular king. HOWEVER, ten months later he abdicated. WHY? Because he decided to marry WALLIS SIMPSON, a divorced American lady. THEREFORE He was succeded by his brother, who became king as …………… George VI and reigned until his death in ……….. 1952.

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR It started in ......... 1936 and finished in ......... 1939. The war was between the Spanish republican goverment and other left-wing forces the fascist rebel general Franco

THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR Such as helped by helped by the Spanish republican goverment and other left-wing forces the fascist rebel general Franco helped by helped by Mussolini Hitler Stalin volunteers many intellectuals Such as English poet W.H. Auden American novelist Ernest Hemingway English novelist George Orwell The war was eventually won by ........ Franco, who started a long dictatorship in Spain.