The beginning of the End

The beginning of the End

1. Edward VII

   • Prosperity
   • Stability
   • World dominance

2. Next 100 years

   • WWI
   • German bombing
   • WWII

3. WWI

   • 1914
     • Serbian killed archduke Francis Ferdnand from Austria-Hungary
   • Serbia Rusia France Britain
     • Vs.
       • Austria Germany Italy
   • Chaos Guns Tanks Poison gas
   • Killing entire generation of men
     • Disillusionment
   • Siegfried Sasson
     • Poet & soldier
     • "I have seen and endured the suffering of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these suffering...
   • 1917
     • U.S entered the war

4. Between wars

   • Europe
     • Consequences of 4 years of destruction
       • Asked help from U.S
   • Britain
     • 7,50,000 died
     • Unemployment
     • Economic depression
   • U.S
     • 1929
       • Stock market crash
         • Chaos
         • Mean while= sized power
           • Italy
           • Russia
           • Gemany
             • Checoslovakia 1930 (Polonia)
   • Japan Germany Italy
     • Vs.
       • Poland France Britain

5. WWII

   • For Britain citizens= tragedy
   • German attacked Britain
     • 1 year vs. Nazis
     • Bombed London
   • Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
     • U.S Entered the war
   • 1945
     • Hitler defeated
   • Britain
     • Debt
     • Financially drained
   • New Labor gob.
     • Transformed
       • National health care system
       • Public education
   • 20´s
     • Dissolving British emprire
       • Loose commonwealth of independence nations

6. Britain Modern Wold

   • Ruled the world
     • Provinsialism
   • Let go colonies
     • International immigrants
       • Africa
       • India
   • Influence to U.S
   • Relationship w/Europe
     • European Economic Community
     • Railway tunnel in English Channel

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