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1 By: Raúl Moldes and Alejandro Moreno

2 Our presentation WWII Winston Churchill UK 50 and 60s

3 It was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 It involved many European military forces, forming two alliances:  The Allies  The Axis Powers It was the most widespread war in history and it was linked to the terror of the Holocaust Finally the Allies won the War and an important Treaty was signed for the horrors of this war not to be repeated VS

4 The UK was one the victors on World War II Uk gave the independence to India in 1947 Uk become a founder member on the UN and helped to form NATO in 1949 Prosperity retuned to UK in the 1950s London became a world center of finance and culture. The nation was not longer a superpower after the cost of World War II The actual queen Elisabeth II was crowned in 1953

5 More than 4 million houses were destroyed Many products were rationed (pooverty) Britain for the first time became a debtor nation with some many countries (USA and Canada helped Uk to solve the debts). Unemployment raised 2.3 million people. On the political scene Churchill was swept out of politics. and the Labour Party raised to power. In 1948 some plans were taken to increase the welfare system of the country Finally, in 1950 the economy improved

6 During the World War II there was a lot of rationing along the population Many men went to fight and the women had to work in factories to replace them and help the country Huge grow in munition and aircraft industries Massive government debts accumulated,especially to America The bombing of houses caused that the construction of new buildings became a priority. The Bretton Woods Conference created an International Monetary Fund to try to prevent another world economic depression

7 After the War ended, the employment of womwn led the UK to the improving of living standard. There was a fall in birth rate More and more families started to own cars New houses were bought and people went more abroad on holidays to places like Italy,Spain and France The increase of TV after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 made people be connected worldwide Aristocracy lost some privileges and equality started to increase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvDFsxjaPaE

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10 He was born the 30 of november of 1874 In 1890 he went to the militar academy Later on he started periodism He started his political career when he was 26 years old. He had his first public political job at the age of 31 in the Henry Cambel-Bannerman legal department. He had an important paper during WWI Between both wars he was retired of politics and in 1938 he became Prime Minister of UK He died the 24th of January of 1965

11 During WWII his speeches made people to be in continuous war even when things were going badly. He led Britain during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. He walked along cities that were destroyed due to bomb attacks and he visited soldiers, doctors, pilots… In 1941 America joined the war and Churchill met Roosevelt and Stalin In 1944 the soldiers landed in France and the war finished due to this achievement in 1945 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybnzMnFEWJY

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13 He won the elections with the Conservative Party. His domestic priorities were colonial affairs with Kenya and Malaya. He had to make some relation with USA in order to travel to the trasanlantic (but his relationship with Eisenhower was very difficult)

14 Churchill want to make a coup d´etat in order to avoid the crisis of petroleum with Iran (anglo-iran disputie) In 1951 British goverment and Kenya about the distribution of land. (Rebellion of Mau Mau) It happened the same in Malasia and Churchill took militar actions against the rebels of his ideals. (The Emegency of Malasia)

15 1. “Never was so much owed by so many to so few” 2. “… IT´S NOT JUST FRANCE. WE ARE FIGHTING FOR IT´S CHAMPAGNE.

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17 Sir Anthony Eden came to power (Conservative Party)(1955-1957) Harold Macmillan (Conservative Party) (1957-1963) Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative party) (1963- 1964) Harold Wilson (Labour Party) (1964-1970) Sir anthony edenHarold Macmillan Sir Alec Douglas- Home Harold Wilson

18 The cold war finished with the victory of the capitalists. Golden Age of capitalism, the system radicalized and imposed a society which promoted individualism Many young people rebelled to this and many societies and movements appeared( the rastafarian movment, the anti- racist movement, the feminist movement and the hippie movement)

19 Mod culture: appeared (it reached the famous peak at the 60s, and it comes from modernist) 1. This movements was related with rastafari and disco music, drug deal... Counterculture: It is an antisystem phenomenom 1. It was about women rights, human sexuality. 2. This movement englobe all the rest of the movements (hippie movement rastafari movement…) Both movements were promoted by the british band the Beatles and started with young people

20 During this decades scientifical and technological advances never stopped which would lead to 1973 (Third Industrial Revolution) Some inventions were the invention: 1. DNA by Francis Crick 2. Optic fibre by Narindder Capany 3. The hovercraft by Cristopher Cockerel

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