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Facts leading to world war two or during.

2007-04-03 08:36:39 · 3 answers · asked by Cilli[[TheHorror]] 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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1933-Recovery from Depression by the means of electrical engineering,auto industry and industrial chemistry
1936-George V dies and Edward VIII abdicates George VI begins reign
1936 Britain begins to rearm
1937 Chamberlain becomes PM and appeasement of the Axis powers ensues culminating in the Munich Pact of 1938
1938 Conscription begins
1939 War was inevitable because of the German Soviet Pact
1940 Chamberlain resigns after Norwegian debacle Churchill becomes PM
1940 Withstood heavy German bombardment in the Battle of Britain In 1941, received 2 new allies when the Germans attacked the USSR and Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
1945- Britain ,the USSR and the US formed the UN
1945-Attlee succeeds Churchill after the post-war British economy lies in ruins
1946-1949-Great Britain receives large loan from the US with further assistance from the Marshall Plan
Pound was devalued to increase exports competitiveness
1948 Industries are nationalized especially steel
1951 Churchill and conservatives are returnrd to office and most controls are lifted . Trucking is denationalized.
1952 George VI dies Elizabeth II becomes queen.

2007-04-03 09:06:25 · answer #1 · answered by Dave aka Spider Monkey 7 · 1 0

1. England had a Queen.

2. The Prime Minister of England was the diplomat and political head.

3. Winston Churchill spoke.

4. Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Wales were neutral.

5. The Lochness Monster was not responsible for any of the battles of World War II.

6. The search by illegal aliens for the Lochness Monster was a factor in the battles fought during World War II.

7. The English lost irreplaceable,
correctly built, thousands potentially greater number of years' intact, one-of-a-kind, architectural structures.

8. The U.S.A. used private enterprise factories for munitions manufacturing.

9. Territories in many areas of the planet did not acknowledge V-Day.

2007-04-03 14:34:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

1935: British chemist Michael Perrin and his group working for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) polymerize ethylene to make polyethylene, the first true plastic.

1936: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins the first public television broadcasts ; the system used has 405 - line pictures.

1937: British inventor Alec Reeves develops a system in which analogue sound is transformed into electrical impulses and a receiver transforms them back into an analogue signal - the basis of digital recording.

1938: Y - fronts are available in Britain, manufactured under licence by Lyle & Scott in Hawick of Scotland

1940: People are entitled for the first time to supplementary benefits in the UK, when the Old Age and Widows' Pensions Act is introduced

1942: A group of university academics in Oxford, England, concerned at the plight of children in occupied Greece, form the aid agency OXFAM (Oxford Committee for Famine Relief). They are headed by the classicist Gilbert Murray

1944: Family Allowance is introduced in the UK : it is a state payment to mothers for each child.

1945: Fees are abolished in state - maintained secondary schools in England and Wales

1946: The report produced by the Reith Committee in the UK leads to the founding of New Towns as growth points in Britain, with Stevenage the first New Town to be built

2007-04-03 09:43:21 · answer #3 · answered by Hobilar 5 · 0 0

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