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Edward VIII and Unemployment
In 1936 George V died and Edward VIII became King. By the end of the year it was plain that he could not bring himself to give up his love for Mrs Simpson. It was equally plain that his subjects would not find Mrs Simpson acceptable as their Queen. Edward proposed that he remained King but that Mrs Simpson should not be Queen and that their children should not be heirs to the throne. Baldwin refused. Edward VIII abdicated on December 11 and his brother Prince Albert became George VI.
Meanwhile the Spanish Civil War began. The right-wing army under Franco marched on Madrid and the elected left-wing Popular Front. Mussolini supported Franco, The Soviet Union supported the Republicans. Many British citizens went to the aid of the Republicans.
Tyneside, West Cumberland, Scotland and South Wales were recognized as economically depressed. Two hundred unemployed men marched from Jarrow to London. Baldwin refused to meet them. They held a rally in Hyde Park organised by the Communist Part of Great Britain and this lost them the support of Labour MPs.
Edward VIII |
EDWARD VIII (1894-1972)- King of the United Kingdom (1936)
- The eldest son of George V
- Became Prince of Wales in 1911
- Remembered for his abdication because of his love for Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee
- He became the Duke of Windsor and went to live first in the Bahamas and then in France
The British Press agreed a code of silence over Edward VIII's abdication. It was reported in the foreign press but not at home.
Firsts
- First Channel Train Ferry (between Dover and Dunkirk)
- Beryl Markham is the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic
- Britain's first Hollywood-type studios opens at Pinewood
- The 麻豆社 transmit the first ever television talking pictures
- Fred Perry becomes the first to win Wimbledon three years running
- The board game Monopoly is sold for the first time in England
- The Queen Mary's first voyage
- The Spitfire appears for the first time
- Jasmine Bligh and Elizabeth Cowell become the 麻豆社's first women presenters
 
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| 1931 | A National Government is formed
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| 1932 | Mosley begins the British Union of Fascists
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| 1933 | Hitler German Chancellor
Roosevelt US President
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| 1935 | Baldwin Prime Minister
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| 1936 | George V dies
Edward VIII King
Edward VIII abdicates
George VI becomes King
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| 1937 | Chamberlain Prime Minister
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| 1938 | The Munich Agreement is signed
Germany annexes Austria
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| 1939 | World War II begins
Conscription is introduced
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| 1940 | Churchill becomes Prime Minister
Rationing is introduced
Battle of Britain
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| 1941 | The Atlantic Charter is announced
Germans invade USSR
The Anglo-Soviet treaty is signed
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