8 Austerity Withdraw From Empire

POST WORLD WAR TWO Austerity in Europe: Withdrawal from Empire: USA Ascendant

LONDON AND WARSAW SHARE DESTRUCTION

THE AUDIT OF WAR (CORRELLI BARNETT) http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-246X(198706)30%3A2%3C504%3ATAOWTI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

BRITAIN: LAST GASP OF GLORY OR INTO A NEW FUTURE (OR BOTH?) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

A COUNTRY NEEDING ANOTHER 10 YEARS FROM 1939 TO RESTRUCTURE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

WAR HAD NOT ELIMINATED SOCIAL DIVISIONS

1945 General Election Fought on Class Lines and Pre-War Memories ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

CHURCHILL HAD SAVED BRITAIN IN WAR BUT COULD HE BE TRUSTED IN PEACE? (Election 23 May 1945) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],2 0.4% 102,780 COM 12 9% 2,248,226 LIB 293 48% 11,995,152 LAB 213 40% 9,988,306 CON No of MPs % of Vote Votes

THE WELFARE STATE By 1939 Britain enjoyed a wide range of welfare services on a scale not surpassed and hardly rivaled by any country in the world. (Lowe: in Johnson – 20 th Century Britain) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

SOME POINTS ON THE WELFARE STATE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

POST-WAR AUSTERITY GREATER THAN IN SOVIET RUSSIA

SO BRITAIN’S POSITION IN 1945 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

ONE OF THE GREAT VICTOR NATIONS OF WW2 BROUGHT TO BANKRUPTCY AND PENUARY

Which is why this is so Important Paris 1947

FRANCE Did Von Falkenheim’s Tactics in 1916 come to Fruition in 1941?

FRANCE’S WAR EXPERIENCE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

REGAIN THE GLORY OF FRANCE THROUGH EMPIRE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

GERMANY ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

OCCUPIED GERMANY TREATED AS SHE TREATED OTHERS Antony Beevor: http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,707835,00.html ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

DID BOMBING GERMANY DESTROY THEIR ECONOMY? TIME MAGAZINE 1945 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

SOME POINTS NOTE: UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY 1945

BRITAIN: WITHDRAWAL FROM EMPIRE ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

At its peak after WW1 a quarter of the world’s population. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

INDIA the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ Imperial Policy grew to Protect Trade to India. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

BUT : Empire was CHEAP Trade and Capital Flows went to traditional areas 1000 28/46 East Asia/Sub Saharan Africa 200 248/139 Europe Part of above 28/24 South America 750 1.8/4.7 West Indies 400 11.6/5.9 New Zealand 400 27.4/31.0 India 750 138.8/37.4 USA 500 22.9/9.6 Canada 1914 Investment: Millions pounds 1900 Import/export Millions pounds

First of Two Significant Shocks ,[object Object],[object Object]

Second: As the Rationale for Empire Disappeared Africa became even more of a burden. ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

ALTHOUGH COLONIAL DISPUTE HAD NOT ALTOGETHER GONE AWAY Maggie’s Impact

FRANCE: CLINGING TO EMPIRE An Australian view of Vichy France Colonial policy ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

France: Clinging to Glory Days of Glory (1943)

AND ANOTHER WE WILL COVER LATER

Marshall Plan (1948-1951) ,[object Object],[object Object]

WHAT CIRCUMSTANCES PROMPTED THE MARSHALL PLAN? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

FOR BRITAIN A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY SQUANDERED ON THE BONFIRE OF GREAT POWER PRETENSIONS. ,[object Object],[object Object]

AND FOR GERMANY (JAPAN) ANOTHER HIDDEN BUT EFFECTIVE FORM OF AID W.A.P. Manser: Britain in Balance, 1971, Penguin ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

THE SUEZ CRISIS (1956) Short Term American Gain, Long Term American Strategic Error? End of an Era ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

THE BACKGROUND ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

THE PLOT ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

THE PLOT THICKENS ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

RAMIFICATIONS ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

HOW CANADA BECAME INVOLVED ,[object Object],[object Object]

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