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Falkland Islands War
- 1982
- B. vs. Argentina
- A wants to take back to show control
- Thatcher uses to shore up support
- short war, few casualties, act of aggression
- Empire, Nationalism, Thatcher support
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Labour Party Split/Election of ‘79
- Thatcher wins
- Labour (more left) vs. social dems (more centrist) split the vote
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Winter of Discontent
- 1978-9
- Labour minority govt
- unemployment, strikes (ambulances)
- Vote of no confidence
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Enoch Powell “Rivers of Blood”
- 1968
- -anti-immigration speech. Conservative
- extreme backlash: showed toleration for multi-cultural society
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Royal Indian Mutiny
- 1946
- 20,000 men mutiny in Navy
- leading up to independence in 1947
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Indian National Army (INA)
- counter army backed by Japan instead of POW camps
- some flip back to B/some fight against B
- most chose concentration camps
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NHS and nationalization
- 1946
- Bank. coal, passenger air, telephone, electricity, natural gas, railways, trucking
- infrastrutture: utilities, communications, transportation
- universal, single payer model. contained costs
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D-Day
- June 6 1944
- beat Ger. before USSR does
- Normandy
- stop world from communism
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Battle of the Atlantic/Bismarck
- The Happy Time summer of 1940
- cut off B. from rest of world/G battleship destroyed
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Beveridge Report
- 1942
- plan out future of B.
- healthcare and guaranteed employment (no want)
- gives purpose to the war
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Keynes
- econ advisor
- taxes dramatically increased on wealthy
- daycare: free up workers in munitions
- rationing, milk and vitamins are subsidized
- massive recycling drives
-
Churchill
- few who hates NAZI's during 1930's
- replaced Chamberlain for wartime govt
- creates coalition govt
- G. rebuilding econ is bad. great speaker. unify the people
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Munich Agreement
- 1938
- don't want to go to war
- give Czechoslovakia to G.
- mil adv.
- fear of collapse of empire
- moral high ground
- G blamed to start war
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Treaty of Versailles
- 1919
- 14 points: free trade and freedom of the seas
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Home rule act
- 1911
- Irish independence. promised before WWI but put on hold
- William Gladstone (Irish) and Charles Stuart Parnell (Irish Parliamentary Party)
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Alien Colored Seaman Act
- 1925
- takes privilege of B. citizenship back
- need documents to prove
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Amritsar Massacre
- 1919
- Gandhi: prove Indians are civilized
- Dyer terrified of revolt. Attacks
- intensified independence movement
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Lawrence of Arabia
- 1919-1940
- unites Middle East against Ottoman Empire
- B. intelligence officer to lead revolution
- protectorates v. complete freedom
- creation on mid east states (Iraq)
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Passchendale
- 11 July-6 Nov 1917
- creeping barrage
- armies march just behind mines
-
Battle of the Somme
- 1 July-18 Nov 1916
- devastating human costs
- Kitchener armies (replaced BEF)
-
Defense of the Realm Act
- 1914
- sacrifice personal liberties for war
- stationed troops around railways/ports
- army can requisition items as needed
- food rationing
- censorship
- military tribunals for civilian offenses
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Women's Suffrage
- Emmeline Pankhurt
- Suffragettes: militants
- Women's social and political union 1903
- Suffragists: National Union of Women's Suffrage 1897
- Cat and Mouse Act, 1913
-
Parliament Act
- 1910 elections
- Lords lose veto power
- fear of revolution
- Lord David Lord George
-
People's budget
- 1909
- pay for welfare state/arms race by taxing wealthy
-
Enlistment Scandal
- 1900
- vast majority of eligible men are working class
- don't meet physical requirements
-
Siege of Mafeking
- 1899-1900
- Baden Powell
- indoctrine young men to support empire
-
No. 45
- Wilkes criticizes king george III for not doing more
- gets kicked out of parliament, despite parliamentary privilege
- imprisoned 1768
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Jingoism (boer war)
- support empire
- passionate belief b is good for empire
- emotional attachment to empire
- marketing due to universal literacy in B
- SOAP
-
Scramble for Africa
B supports empire when others try to start own empire
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Zulu War
- 1879
- fearsome with codes of honor but outmatched in fire power
- Zulu defeat B. in several battles
- should B continue dishonorably killing Zulus?
- maxim machine gun
- started to doubt empire (reignited with Berlin Conference)
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Berlin Conference
- 1884-1885
- carve Africa to stop fighting between each other
- ignore all existing boundaries
- principle of effectivity
- need treaties or conquest
- euro people must live there
- fly flag of Euro there
- create some police force to maintain control
- make colony a better place/improve
- (subjective)
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Crimean War
- 1854
- B vs Russia over control of Ottoman Empire control
- Florence Nightingale >more women nurses on battlefield
- sign of B struggle in war
-
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James Watt
- 1776
- perfected steam engine
- cotton cheaper
-
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Great Stink
- 1858
- biggest outbreak of cholera
- built gigantic sewers (Joseph Bazalgette) purifies sewage
- "clean air"
-
New Poor Law
- 1834
- check population growth.
- Malthus: food population
- reward people for working
- building workhouses to live/work. single sex houses for unemployed
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Seville Act
- 1780
- more rights for Catholics
- angers protestants
-
representation of people act
- 1832
- EARL GREY PM
- pocket, mega, rotten boroughs
- mega and rotten fixed by redistricting
- reformed voter requirements, standardized
- House of Lords was threatened to be packed
-
Tom Paine
- rights of man 1792
- taxes, wanted welfare state
-
York Camden decision
- East India owns part of India for conquering
- colonists are not a corporation
-
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
- super industrial inventor
- invented subway
- built huge railway stations
- great cruise ships
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