Before the World War II‚ the United Kingdom is dealing with a big crisis‚ also called the Great Depression. During this period of crisis‚ the number of unemployed people increased dramatically‚ especially for the working class. At the beginning of it‚ a Labour government was elected for a short period of time (1929-1931). At its head was Ramsay MacDonald. When he resigned‚ a Conservative government was then elected. To put an end to this crisis‚ this Conservative government made many cuts‚ including
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Indian independence act India gained independence in 1947. In the first half of the 20th century‚ having been the "Jewel in the Crown" of the British Empire‚ India became the first part of that Empire to secure separate nationhood and independence. The Parliamentary Archives holds a variety of records which document the relationship between the United Kingdom and India‚ including photographs of Indian Army Officers on the Terrace on the occasion of the coronation of Edward VII in 1902‚ and papers
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The selected text is a political speech given by Winston Churchill on 5 March 1945 . The historical context of the speech could be considered to start a year before. At the beginning of 1945‚ the Allied forces were closing in on the borders of Germany in three directions‚ and the geographical natural barriers offered the Allied powers protection from the other sides . The major Allied leaders‚ Churchill‚ Roosevelt and Stalin‚ who became known as the Big Three‚ met at the resort city of Yalta‚ at
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Nuremberg Trials started to gain justice for all the victims that lost their lives during the holocaust. Many people do not know that most of the intimate were not Jews because they were sent straight off to the death camps (¨Nuremberg Trials¨ 1). People now correlate the Jews and the Holocaust together because the Jews were the most targeted group of the Holocaust. Nuremberg Trials was a series of 13 trails placed in Nuremberg‚ Germany (¨Nuremberg Trials¨ 1). They choose to place the trails here
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a catalyst to change‚ forcing people to adjust their daily routines and lifestyles in the short term and quite usually in the long term too‚ as well as innovating technology and weaponry. After the Second World War‚ between 1945 and 1951‚ Clement Attlee of the Labour Government became prime minister and passed a series of measures‚ which helped the period become known as the welfare state. These included social reforms addressed by Sir William Beveridge in his report of December 1942 and which
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prominent Fabians – established the London School of Economics (LSE). Within it‚ they incorporated the Charity Organization Society’s School of Sociology to form a new Department of Social Sciences and Administration in 1912. Its first lecturer was Clement Attlee‚ who became Prime Minister of the UK after the Second World War‚ and in 1950‚ Richard Titmuss was appointed as the first Professor of Social Administration in the UK. Until 1987‚ Social Administration and Social Policy were used interchangeably
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Introduction Revolt Of 1857 Formation Of INC Extremists and Moderates Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Gandhian Era Non-Cooperation Movement Civil Disobedience Movement Quit India movement Independence Sources Introduction The appointment in 1848 of Lord Dalhousie as Governor General of the East India Company set the stage for changes essential to a modern state. These included the consolidation and demarcation of sovereignty‚ the surveillance of the population‚ and the education of citizens
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Population: 1‚173‚108‚018 (July 2010 estimate) Capital: New Delhi Major Cities: Mumbai‚ Kolkata‚ Bangalore and Chennai Area: 1‚269‚219 square miles (3‚287‚263 sq km) Bordering Countries: Bangladesh‚ Bhutan‚ Burma‚ China‚ Nepal and Pakistan Coastline: 4‚350 miles (7‚000 km) Highest Point:Kanchenjunga at 28‚208 feet (8‚598 m) India‚ formally called the Republic of India‚ is the country that occupies most of the Indian subcontinent in southern Asia. In terms of itspopulation‚ India is one of
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Independence of India. The Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Act which partitioned British India into 2 separate and independent countries‚ India and Pakistan. The legislation of Indian Independence Act was designed by the Prime Minister Clement Attlee as Indian Political Parties agreed on the transfer of power from the British Government to the independent Indian Government and the Partition of India. This act received royal assent on 18th July‚ 1947.The Agreement was made with Lord Mountbatten
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1. The Yalta Conference‚ which took place at Livadiya Palace in present-day Ukraine‚ was attended by U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt‚ Britain’s prime minister Winston Churchill‚ and Communist party secretary Joseph Stalin. One agreement made between the three powers was to both demilitarize Germany‚ and separate it into four parts‚ giving the U.S.‚ the U.K.‚ the Soviet Union‚ and France each a part of the land as military occupation. This presumably was an attempt to indefinitely prevent future
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