Modern+Britain

= Modern Britain

= = __**//HISTORY//**__ = 1901 1902 
 * Queen Victoria died on January 22nd from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 81. Queen Victoria's son Edward VII became the king after she died. He had the title Prince of Wales longer than any other person did. H was also the second longest heir apparent in British history. He stayed king untill May 6th 1910 when he died
 * Britain defeats Dutch settlers in Boer W ar in South Africa. The British fought directly against the Transvaal and the Oranje Vrijstaat, defeating their forces first in open warfare and then in a long and bitter guerrilla campaign. British losses were high due to both disease and combat.

1910 
 * Edward VII dies. On May 6th 1910 George V become king. He was a grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He served in the royal navy in his earlier years. As a result of the First World War other empires fell as George's expanded.

1914 
 * In August the First World War begins. This was a major war that occurred in Europe that began on the 28th of July 1914 and ended on the 11th of November 1918. This war involved the worlds great powers which split into two sides the Central Powers and Allied Powers. This was one of the largest wars in history. By the end of the war four major imperial powers, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungry and the Ottoman Empire, were militarily and politicly defeated.

1918 <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1936 <span style="font-family: Times,serif; line-height: 24px;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The First World War ends in November
 * ====<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> George V dies. Edward VIII becomes king but soon abdicates so George VI becomes king. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay. As a young man, he served in the British Armed Forces during the First World War and undertook several foreign tours on behalf of his father, George V. On the 11th of December 1936 had to abdicate because he was trying to marry a woman who was divorced already and looking for another one. Then George VI came to throne. George VI was king until his death on the 6th of February 1952. He served in the royal navy and the royal air force during World War 1. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1939 <span style="font-family: Times,serif; line-height: 24px;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939 and ended on the 2nd of September 1945. This war also involved most of the worlds nations including the great powers again. This war was the most widespread war in history. it was the deadliest conflict in human history because it involves the Holocaust. Resulting in up to 70 million deaths.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1940 <span style="font-family: Times,serif; line-height: 24px;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Battle of Britain is fought. The Battle of Britain was the name given for the World War II air campaign between the German air force and the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The British were trying to maintain air superiority over the Royal Air Force.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1945 <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1951 <span style="font-family: Times,serif; line-height: 24px;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Second World War ends
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Festival of Britain is held. This festival is held in the summer of 1951. It was mad to help Britons get a feeling of recovery from the aftermath of the war. It was also to help promote the British contribution of science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts. the festival was held in London on the South Bank of the Thames.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1952 <span style="font-family: Times,serif; line-height: 24px;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">George VI died on 6th of February 1952. When he passed on Queen Elizabeth II took the throne on the same day and she is still currently the Queen of Britain. Her coronation service in 1953 was the first to be televised.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1982
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Falklands War began on the 2nd of April 1982 when Argentine forces invaded the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The British sent a naval task force to engage the Argentine navy and air force. this lasted 74 days and ended with the surrendered of Argentine forces on the 14th of June 1982, returning the island to British control.

<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1991
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Gulf War, also know as Operation Dessert Storm, began on the 17th of January 1991 and ended on the 28th of February 1991. This war was started because of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The United States, Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, and Egypt all got together and started with and arial bombardment to expel the Iraqi troops. Then they all sent in ground forces to finish off the job. 100 hours after the ground campaign started there was a cease fire called ending the war.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2003
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">The Second Gulf War occurred in Iraq on March 20th 2003 to December 18th 2011. This war began because Iraq was using guns illegally for violence and not fowling the regulations about weapons from the U.N. They also said that they had weapons of mass distracting and threatened to used them on the nearby countries. In this war the U.S captured Saddam Hussein on the 13th of December 2003, and on the 30th of December 2006 he was executed by being hung. On the 21st of October 2011 President Obama ordered all U.S troops out of Iraq, and on the 18th of December 2011 the last group of U.S troops left Iraq.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 300%;">//**__Literature__**//

__Thomas Hardy:__


 * Selected poems
 * //The Return of the Native//
 * //The Mayor of Castor Bridge//
 * //Tess of the D Urbervilles//
 * //Jude the Obscure//

__Aldous Huxley:__


 * //Crome Yellow//
 * //Antic Hay//
 * //Point Counter Point//
 * //Brave New World//
 * //Henry James//

__Henry James:__


 * //The Bostonians//
 * //The Princess Casam Assima//
 * //The Beast in the Jungle//
 * //The Sacred Fount//
 * //The Ambassadors//

__G.B. Shaw:__


 * //Man and Superman//
 * //Major Barbara//
 * //Candida//
 * //Heartbreak House//
 * //Back to Methuselah//