TIMELINE COMPARISON

UK AND USA FROM WW I TO WW II

BRITAIN

USA

BEFORE WWI

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORMS

EDWARDIAN GEORGIAN AGE

ROARING TWENTIES - JAZZ AGE

ECONOMIC DECLINE

GREAT DEPRESSION

AFTER WWI

COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS

WALL STREET CRASH 1929

RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM

ROOSEVELT 's NEW DEAL

WW II

THE WAR

THE WINDSORS

THE WAR

POLITICAL SPEECHES

POST-WAR

POST-WAR USA

WELFARE

INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS

REFORMS. and LYNDON JOHNSON

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT

THEODORE ROOSVELT

• Limited power of monolpolies
• national parks
• Railroads regulation
• 16th and 17th Amendaments to the Constitution: national income tax + direct elections of US Senators
• 19th Amendament: right to vote to women

LYNDON JOHNSON

• VOTING RIGHTS ACT 1965: right to vote to African Americans

• Millions of immigrants
• National rail network
• Northwest cities developed thanks to mines and factories
• Aviation
• Cinema industry

• African-Americans formally given the right to vote, but discriminatory practices

WW II

• RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS
• SHOAH = devastating destruction in Hebrew (death/ concentration camps, gas chambers for the extermination of Jewish, Gypsies, homosexuals, people with mental disabilities and genetic diseases)
• NUREMBERG TRIALS 1945-1949 (Nazi criminals to justice, leaders convicted of crimes against humanity)

• Britain enters was in 1939 after invasion of Polland
• Winston Churchill replaces Chamberlain
• Britain against Germany and Italy - the Blitz
• Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor
• USA join the war
• End of war 1945
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs

INDUSTRIAL DECLINE

• Mining heavy industry in decline after the war.
• Workers' pay reduced and working hours increased
• Trades Union Congress and General Strike in 1926: transport network paralysed, no delivery of goods and food
• Unsuccessful
• Trade Dispites Act 1927: strikes illegal

ROARING TWENTIES

• Economic boom - the wealthiest country in the world
• Motor industry with Henry Ford
• Cinema industry
• Purchase of commodities: cars, radios, home appliances, entertainment, travels

RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM

• End to economic depression
• protection from development of Communism

WW II

• Pearl Harbor attack - entered the war (Allies)
• Generals Dwight Eisenhower - Douglas MacArthur
• Sicily and Normandy (D-Day)
• Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (president Harry s. Truman)

POST-WAR USA

• UNITED NATIONS (UN), 1945:initially replacing the League of Nationsinternational organisation to facilitate cooperation in international law, security, economic development, social progress, peace-keeping and human rightsfrom 50 to 193 coutries, nowadays

• International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1945 to promote monetary cooperation, secure financial stability and facilitate international trade
• Marshall Plan /European Recovery Plan to recover economically and prevent weaker countries to fall under Soviet influence with a consequent spread of Communism
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949, agreement of mutual defence

GREAT DEPRESSION 1930

• South-East England prosperity: housebuilding, domestic appliances and cars.
• Recovery thanks to rearmament for imminent WWII.

• USA customs barriers tp stop import
• depression across the world
• global economic crisis
• large scale unemployment with resulting poverty

WELFARE STATE

• Beveridge Report 1942 (William Beveridge economist): " from the cradle to the grave"
• Reform of schooling and full employment
• Family Allowance Act, 1945
• National Insurance Act, 1946 (unemployment, sickness, pensions, child allowances)
• New Towns Actl, 1946 to rebuild destroyed by the war + Council houses for families with low income.
• National Health Service Act, 1948
• Nationalisation of Bank of England, power, steel and transport industries

POLITICAL SPEECHES: On Classroom

F. D. ROOSEVELT 's NEW DEAL POLICY

• Relief for unemployed (new employment in public works; assistance for the poor)

• Recovery of the economy (Repeal of Prohibition Act of 1920)

• Reform of financial system to avoid future crisis (regulations on the stock market, banks and business.

WALL STREET CRASH AND GREAT DEPRESSION

• Banks loans
• Wall street speculations
• overproduction of goods
• bank failures
• consumer debts
• + dust storms with damages in agriculture and cattles

Post-war international organisations

• UNITED NATIONS (UN), 1945:initially replacing the League of Nationsinternational organisation to facilitate cooperation in international law, security, economic development, social progress, peace-keeping and human rightsfrom 50 to 193 coutries, nowadays

• International Monetary Fund (IMF), 1945 to promote monetary cooperation, secure financial stability and facilitate international trade
• Marshall Plan /European Recovery Plan to recover economically and prevent weaker countries to fall under Soviet influence with a consequent spread of Communism
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949, agreement of mutual defence

COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS

• Balfour Declaration 1931
• India (1947 - British Nationality Act, 1948)