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发信人: icecap (暖一暖), 信区: English
标 题: Between the Two Wold Wars
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Fri Apr 4 16:30:48 2003) , 转信
Between the Wars 1918 to 1945
The issue of votes for women, re-surfaced after World War I ended. Women had
played their part in the factories and the movement started by Mrs. Pankhurst
led to a limited voting franchise for women in 1918, and full equality with men
in 1928.
The working class became unionised, and labour relations deteriorated. The
culmination was the General Strike in May 1926, when some 2 million key workers
went on strike over plans to reduce wages and lengthen working hours. The
General Strike itself failed, but it did make trades unionists realise that
they could not lead British workers into a class war, b8ut that the process of
winning at the ballot box would give them real power to change the country
In the 1930's Britain was focused on the continuing high unemployment at home.
Then there was the shock of the abdication of Edward VIII who wished to marry
an American divorcee in 1936.
Few saw the threat of Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Germany was re-arming
at a frightening rate, but Britain had neither the inclination nor the money
to follow Hitler's increased spending on armaments.
Eventually Hitler's expansion went too far. The German invasion of Poland led
Britain by treaty to declare war on Germany. In 1939 World War II started.
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