1. BRITAIN
BETWEEN
THE WARS

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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.