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Britan in the 20th century

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  • How did George VI raise morale during WWII?
    He travelled to the frontlines (in secret)
  • What was the name of the women's movement for equality?
    Suffragette
  • Why did Edward VIII abdicate?
    He wanted to marry an American divorcee.
  • What period is called the 'age of austerity'?
    the years after WWII when economic recovery was slow
  • Which countries were allied to Britain in WWI?
    France, Russia
  • Who was the first female Prime Minister?
    Margaret Thatcher
  • What fraction of the Blatchley Park workers were women?
    about three fourth
  • What was the other name for Bletchley Park?
    Station X
  • Who was King during WW II?
    George VI
  • When did Elizabeth II become Queen?
    1952
  • What was the aim of Bletchley Park?
    to decode captured German messages (Enigma)
  • Who was Prime Minister when WWII stared?
    Neville Chamberlain
  • What did Churchill win a Nobel Prize for?
    Literature
  • What is the 'miracle of Dunkirk'?
    more than 330 thousand soldiers were saved by British warships and civilian vessels
  • What was the women's role during WWI?
    replaced conscripted men in the workplace
  • When did WWII began?
    1 September 1939
  • Who was Prime Minister during WWII?
    Winston Churchill
  • What was one reform Harold Wilson's government was famous for?
    decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion, relaxing divorce laws, end of capital punishment
  • Which mathematician is mostly associated with breaking the Enigma code?
    Alan Turing
  • When did women get the right to vote?
    1928
  • Why was the work is Bletchley Park significant?
    it shortened the war by 2 years
  • When did the WWI take place?
    1914-1918
  • When did Britain lose India and Pakistan?
    1947
  • What is conscription?
    compulsory enrollment in the military
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