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1918 - the Fourth Ballot Act: |

men over 21 could vote

*    Women over 30 could vote

*    Secret voting

*    Cambridge and Oxford allowed women to study

*    Compulsory education under age of 14

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19T9Vcrsal Treaty:)

•    Lloyd George was against destroying the balance of power in Europę - opposed Polish claims for Upper Silesia, Mazury, and Gdańsk.

•    Britain achieved German military fleet stopped existing.

•    German Trade League were in British hands,

•    Ali German colonies in (east and west) Africa and Australian Isles were given to the British.

,ambia ^*lSierra Leonej{and} **^Canada| ** iNew OrIeans\*ⁱ*{Bn5sh|

British were dissatisfied because they were USA’s debtor as they took loans there.

Britain got: **jrest **tTogb ?*75ahioa

(2^0

*^Tanganylka]**)Kenya| **[Somali Land]**' Nigeria Guyana ** Hong Kong.'

■Britain had got 1/7 world’s war.

Inter war decade : 1919 - 1929 -

*    Industrial branches - growing - other suffering.

*    No longer dominate on the seas.

*    Imported morę than exported.

*    Political parties lost importance

*    Coalitions

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i1919 - the IMPERIAL CONFERENCE -

Britain involved in China pacifying raising. Ali the British colonies were given a status of British dominion with its own parliament and govemment but UK could control their foreign policy.

flreland:]-

1919, January - clections-Irish won 73%-Irish MP’s refused to sit in British Parliament, they gathered in Dublin & constituted their own Irish Parliament -fDail and proclaimed thej FIRST INDEPENDENT IRISH REPUBLIC, \

[Eamon deJValera[was chosen as their first President._

26.soutfaern countries were accepted, 6 northem - ULSTER - were excluded and joined to Britain-Unitcd Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland.

Irish Republican Ar my [Gerry Adam] _ 1935 - Locarno Protection of European borders.

1931 - on the base of the WESTMINSTER STATUĘ, was created BRITISH COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS.

^929-1939 economicaf cnsis.jlJSAhvas affected by gi-eat prices, there were many bankrupts, suicides.

1930 - crisis reachcdUKlTo limit it, they increased taxes and reduced payments. As a result, dissatisfaction and strikes began.

1934    - the end of crisis.

British were competing with USA with everything (trade, banking, industrial production etc.)

1933 - HIYLER came to power j

PACT OF FOLR-Brltain. Italy, Germany, France (isolation of USA)

1935    - Italians conąuered Abisynia-no reaction.

Germans started building military fleet - UK didn’t oppose

1937    - Japan attacked China - no reaction.    _______

CHAMBERLAIN was trying to appease, his policy was called POLICY OF APPEASEMENT.

1938    - Germany affected Czechoslovakia - no reaction.

1938 - 4 countries met & accepted German influences in Czechoslovakia, Germans occupied Prague and invaded west of Czech. Talks between Hitler and Chamberlain. Hitler promised not to attack (empty talks).

23.08.1939 - RIBENTROPP and MOŁOTOW TREATlT

BritisR and French signed a treaty with POLAND but it was too late.

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