1. Britain between the wars 1918-1939

2. These were troubled times for Britain
These were troubled times for Britain. Industry was declining, the Depression caused many problems and the 1930s became famous for unemployment and stagnation. With dole queues and hunger marches, the promise to make Britain 'a country fit for heroes to live in' was not achieved.

3. Governments between the wars
Liberal Conservative Coalition (Lloyd George)
Conservative (Bonar Law)
Conservative (Baldwin)
1924 Labour (Ramsey MacDonald)
Conservative (Baldwin)
Labour (Ramsey MacDonald)
1931 National Government (Ramsey MacDonald)
1935 (Baldwin)
(Chamberlain)

4. The Post-War Coalition
Huge plans for improved healthcare, unemployment benefits and pensions were difficult to implement due to the poor economy.
200,000 new council houses was one of the successes.
In 1922, 1 million were unemployed, yet social welfare cuts continued.
The Lloyd George Fund
This was the governments downfall.
Conservatives broke away from Liberals

5. Anglo Irish Treaty of 1921 1916 Easter Rising WW1
Sinn Feinn became more popular and the IRA was established in 1919
Black and Tans sent to fight them
The agreement separated Ulster from the rest of an independent Ireland

7. Britain's first Labour Government
Attracted votes from the working class
Increased unemployment benefits and put more money into education
Zinoviev letter encouraging revolution
Decline of Liberals

8. The General Strike, 1926

9. The Depression Industries badly hit as trading with the USA stopped
Huge debts
Unemployment grew from 1.28 million in to 2.64 million in 1931 and 1932
'Hunger Marches' were peaceful protests of unemployed. The most famous is the Jarrow Hunger March of 1936 when 200 unemployed men from a Tyneside shipyard marched to London

10. George Orwell, 1936, Road to Wigan Pier
‘through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs…She had a pale round face, the usual exhaused face of the slum girl who is 25 and looks 40, thanks to miscarriages & drudgery; and it wore, for the second in which I saw it, the most desolate hopeless expression I have ever seen’.

11. 'Two Nations'
The feeling that London didn't understand the suffering in the north.
Increase of 'mod-cons' (cosmetics,tabloids,magazines, radio, cinema and sports)
Housing improved
More council houses
More home owners
Electricity

12. The Abdication Crisis, 1936
Edward VIII abdicated due to his wish to marry Mrs Wallace Simpson (a divorcee)