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The Interwar Era: Britain

The Interwar Era: Britain. Madi , Dana, Noelle. Great Britain. Key Leaders of Britain during Interwar Period. David Lloyd George Stanley Baldwin James Ramsay MacDonald Neville Chamberlain. David Lloyd George. 1863-1945. Prime Minister from 1916- 1922. Stanley Baldwin. 1867-1947.

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The Interwar Era: Britain

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  1. The Interwar Era: Britain Madi, Dana, Noelle

  2. Great Britain

  3. Key Leaders of Britain during Interwar Period • David Lloyd George • Stanley Baldwin • James Ramsay MacDonald • Neville Chamberlain

  4. David Lloyd George 1863-1945 Prime Minister from 1916- 1922

  5. Stanley Baldwin 1867-1947 Prime Minister from 1924- 1929

  6. James Ramsay MacDonald 1866-1937 Prime Minister from 1929- 1935

  7. Neville Chamberlain 1869-1940 Prime Minister from 1937-1940

  8. Neville Chamberlain: The Early Years • Neville Chamberlain was born Arthur Neville Chamberlain on March 18, 1869 in Edgbaston, United Kingdom to Joseph Chamberlain. • Neville was intended to look after the family fortunes in commerce while his one brother, Austin Chamberlain was groomed for a political career. He was educated at the Rugby School and then he was sent to manage his fathers plantation in the Bahamas. • He worked long and hard for seven years. But finally, he returned to Britain because through all this it was known that he was destined for a political and business career.

  9. Neville Chamberlain: Rise to Power Prime Minister • 1915-1916- becomes lord mayor of Birmingham. • December 1916- director-general of National Service • 1918- elected into the House of Commons • March 1923- entered the cabinet as minister of health • August 1923- became chancellor of the exchequer • January 1924- Conservative government was defeated • November 1924- Conservatives came back to power and Chamberlain became ministry of health • 1931- helped create National Government • 5th of November 1931- became chancellor of the exchequer and held his position in office until 1937 • 28th of May 1937- Eventually succeeded Stanley Baldwin and took the role of prime minister

  10. Neville Chamberlain: Leadership Style Neville Chamberlain was the leader of the British Conservative Party and both a good and a bad leader. He was a good leader because he was compassionate and cared about his country and the people that lived there. But was also a poor leader because while some of the things that he did ended up well and others did not. For example he negotiated with Hitler, as a result of this negotiation Hitler went and occupied Prague and then Poland. This made Chamberlain look weak and foolish.

  11. Neville Chamberlain: Death During the summer of 1940 Chamberlains health began to fail as he was diagnosed with cancer. Towards the end of his life he resigned from the position of the Conservative party leader. Sadly, he finally ended his battle on November 9th, 1940. His ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey.

  12. Neville Chamberlain: His Legacy Neville Chamberlain is remembered as one of the many prime ministers of Great Britain after WWI. He was the Prime Minister before Winston Churchill which is a reason he is greatly remembered.

  13. Kellogg-Briand Pact • Created in 1928 • This was a pact of peace and it outlawed any war between France, the United States, the UK, Germany, Iltay, Japan and other countries. • It did not have much enforcement and later was undone by WWII

  14. The “Irish Question” • This was the question of who would govern Ireland. Who Owned it? • How will it be governed? What type of government? • Ireland owned by Great Britain lead to complete Irish Uprising .

  15. Postwar Status: 1920’s • After WWI ended in 1918, British economy went downhill. It’s estimated that Britain lost almost a quarter of their wealth fighting in the Great War. Great Britain had a high unemployment percent and extremely slow growth in production, which plunged their economy even more into the ground. By 1926, a General Strike was called by trade unions but it failed, and those who attempted to be part of this were ‘blacklisted’ and wouldn’t be able to work until years later. Overall in the 1920’s, because of WWI, the British economy was terrible. • This had a negative effect on the interwar world because many people in Britain were unemployed so goods could not be made. Plus, Britain had no money to produce anything. The rest of the world also seemed to be in debt after WWI too, though.

  16. Postwar Status: 1930’s • In 1929, the Wall Street Crash really affected Britain. It made their economy even worse, and they were still recovering from the turmoil of WWI! The Great Depression caused many general strike and Britain eventually went to a coalition government. Britain was in a bad place all throughout the 1930’s. • This was a negative influence in the interwar world because Britain had many strikes and had a bad economy so they could not produce anything for their own countries or other countries that needed goods from them.

  17. Who will help the people of Britian?

  18. Works Cited "Chamberlain, Neville (1869–1940)." Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Vol. 1. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 540-542. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 27 Mar. 2011 "Chamberlain, Neville." World War II Reference Library. Ed. Barbara C. Bigelow, et al. Vol. 3: Biographies. Detroit: UXL, 1999. 11-16. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 27 Mar. 2011.  "Munich Agreement." Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. Vol. 3. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 1814-1815. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 27 Mar. 2011.

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