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WW1-WW2
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Unemployment reaches all time high
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Conservative Andrew Bonar Law becomes prime minister
Having precipitated the fall of David Lloyd George's Liberal-Conservative coalition government with a brilliant speech to his Conservative colleagues, Andrew Bonar Law was invited by George V to form a government -
Women get the same rights as men
All women over the age of 21 get the vote -
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
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Wall Street Crash sparks the Great Depression
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Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald resigns in a row over the budget
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New air defence programme adds 41 squadrons to the RAF
In 1933, German leader Adolf Hitler had withdrawn from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations in order to begin re-arming. Despite a 1935 League of Nations 'peace ballot' that showed 90% of the British public favoured multilateral disarmament, the British government reluctantly began to re-arm. -
Italy, France and Britain meet to discuss German rearmament
The Stresa Conference was intended to form a united front against Adolf Hitler's Germany, but Italian leader Benito Mussolini had more in common with Hitler than with the western democracies -
George V dies and is succeeded by Edward VIII
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Munich Agreement' cedes the Sudetenland to Germany
The Munich Conference between Britain's Neville Chamberlain, Germany's Adolf Hitler, Italy's Benito Mussolini and Edouard Daladier of France agreed that the Czechoslovakian territory of the Sudetenland and its three million ethnic Germans should be joined with Germany.
