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twentiess

Causes = Obsolete methods - Coal - What percentage of unemployment in Swansea?

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25%

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cause cmon

Causes = Obsolete methods - Steel - When did it cease in the Ebbw Vale?

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1929

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5 or 6?

Causes = Competition from Abroad - Coal - What were the prices in the USA and UK?

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USA - 65p per tonne
Uk - £1.56 per tonne

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Causes = Competition from Abroad - Textiles - How much did employment decline in this industry?

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1911 - 621,00 employed (600,000)
1938 - 393,00 employed (300,00)

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Causes = Wallstreet Crash - How many unemployed in 1930 - 1932?

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2 million - 1930
3 million - 1932

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Causes = Wall Street Crash - How much did trade decline from 1929 - 1931?

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Halfed

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During = SAA - When was the Special Areas Act?

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1934

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During = SAA - When was Treforest Industrial Estate? number of workers?

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1936
16,000 workers

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During = SAA - How much did gov give companies to go there?

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£2 million

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During = Light Industry - How many people used electricity in 1938? How many cars were sold in 1938?

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9 million
2 million

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During = Light Industry - What percentage of nations exports?

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15%

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During = Popular Entertainment - Who fought who in 1938? Crowds of what?

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Tommy Farr (Welshie) and Joe Louis
80,000 crowds

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During = Popular Entertainment - Radio - How many radios in 1939? When was BBC?

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9 million radios
BBC - 1926

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During = Popular Entertainment - Cinema - How much? How many in 1939?

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6 dimes per ticket
4,776 cinemas (e.g Jazz Singer 1927)

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During = Popular Entertainment - Television - How many viewers in 1939?

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50,000

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During = Emigration from Wales - How many left Wales 1921 - 1938?

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440,000

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During = Self Help - Diet- How many had inadequate diet in 1936?

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4.5 million

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During = Self Help - Children - How many children died in poor families per 1 dead in rich?

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8

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During = Hunger Marches - Jarrow March - When? How many went? How many signatures? Percent unemploy?

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1936
200 men went
11,000 signatures
75% unemployed

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During = Dole - When was Unemployed Insurance Act? How Long? Cut by how Much?

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1920
39 weeks
10% cut

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During = Means Test - When? How many men died in 1932 because of it?

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1931
2

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Preparations = Threat from Germany - When did Hitler become Chancellor?

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1933

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Preparations = Threat from Germany - When was the Non-aggression Pact? (no take back p corridor)

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1934

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Preparations = Threat from Germany - When did Germany rearm/Conscription? How much did his army increase?

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1935
Trebled

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Preparations = Threat from Germany - When did he Re-Militarise the Rhineland? How many troops?

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1936
22,000 troops sent

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Preparations = Threat from Germany - When was Munich conference? What happened? How many German speakers?

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1938
Given Sudentland ( 3 million speakers)
Hitler want invade czech

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Preparations = Threat from Germany - When was Anchluss? How many in camps?

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1938
80,000

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Preparations = Threat from Germany - When invade Poland for its corridor? What did Hitler sign?

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1939
No war pact with Russia
Invade poland w Russia

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Preparations = Threat from Germany - When did war start?

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3rd September 1939 - as allied with Poland.

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Preparations = When was National Services Act/Conscription? How many joined?

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1939
1.5 million

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Preparations = When was the Home Guard created?

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1940

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Preparations = How far did Anti Aircraft reach?

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2 miles

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Preparations = How many barrage balloons built in 1936 & 1940?

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1936 - 450
1940 - 2,300

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Preparations = When was Air Raid Warden Service? How many members in 1939?

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1937
1.5 million

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Preparations = How many slept in the underground 1940?

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177,000

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War = Bombing of British cities - When Bliitz? How many dead and how many homeless in London?

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1940
15,000 dead
250,000 homeless

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War = How many dead in 3 night bombing of Swansea? How many bombs dropped?

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230 dead
56,000 bombs dropped

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War = Evacuation - How many evacuated?

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1.5 milllion

39
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War = Evacuation - How many evacuees did Rhondda have?

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33,500

40
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War = Rationing - What percentage of food was imported?

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40%

41
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War = How many ships did the germans sink in 1942?

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275

42
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War = Ministry of food - created rationing - when was clothes rationed?

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1941

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War = Women - What percentage of the workforce were women in 1943?

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57%

44
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War = Women - How many women working in 1943?

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17 million - propaganda

45
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War = Women - Factory work - How much were they paid? What percent less than men?

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£2.15
75% less than men

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War = Women - What 7 key areas did women work in for the war?

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  • Womens Land Army
  • Factory Work
  • Womens Auxiliary Territorial Service
  • Womens Auxiliary Airforce
  • Womens Voluntary Service
  • Secret Agents
    -Entertainment
47
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War = Women - Secret Agent example?

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Odette Churchill

48
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Morale = Censorship - When was the Ministry of Information set up?

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1939

49
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Morale = Propaganda - What quote was used about posters?

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‘Careles talk costs lives’

50
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Morale = Radio - What radio station was popular keeping up morale during the war?

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‘Music while you work’

51
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Morale = Cinema - How many cinema tickets sold in 1945?

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1,500 million tickets

52
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Morale = What popular war film in 1942? Name a movie star?

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“Went the day well?”
Vera Lynn

53
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Morale = Campaigns and Appeals - Dig for Victory - How many allotments in war?

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1.4 million

54
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Morale = Campaigns and Appeals - When was wasting food made criminal?

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1940

55
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Morale = Campaigns and Appeals - Spitfire fund - How much did Brighton raise?

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£400 - painted on plane

56
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After war = Economy - How much debt was Britain in? How many homes gone? How many deaths in military?

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£3500 million
1/3 homes gone
260,000 deaths

57
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After war = Loss of empire - When did India get independence?

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1947

58
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After war = Demobilisation - When was it?

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1944

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After war = Demobilisation - How many released after 18 months?

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4.3 million out of the 5 million

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After war = Demobilisation - How many divorces in 1947?

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60,000

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After war = Labour Landslide Victory - Labours slogan? How many seats?

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“Let us face the future together”
393 seats

62
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Rebuilding = Beveridge Report - When? How many wanted to go ahead?

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1942
9 out of 10

63
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Rebuilding = NHS - When? How many glasses? How much?

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1948
5.75 million
£500 million in first year

64
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Rebuilding = Education - When was act? When was the school leaving age raised to 16?

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1944
1947

65
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Rebuilding = Housing - When was Town and Country Planning Act? How many houses prefab?

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1947
100,00 prefab

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Rebuilding = Nationalisation - How much was total compensation?

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£2700 million

67
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Rebuilding = Nationalisation - When was Coal? When was Steel?

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1947
1949

68
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Preparations - why was appeasement necessary?

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Britains Economy was in no place
Horrors of war
Military is not ready

69
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After war - Labour quotes as to why people had a landslide victory? Also, why in general?

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“Let us face the future together”
“Never again”

Beveridge report
Change by people - Nationalisation
Conserv using Churchill

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