Слайд 1Lecture 5
the UK
Ph.D. Vashchenko E.A.
Слайд 2Plan
The British Empire and Victorian England
The Two World Wars
The Postwar
Слайд 3Victorian Period
William IV (liver disease) – 1837
18 year old niece
Victoria (1819-1901)
Lord Melbourne
Her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
The Great Exhibition
(the 1st World Fair) – 1851 – South Kensington Museum – renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum
The Opium Wars (with China)
The Boer Wars (with the Dutch speaking settlers of South Africa)
1854 – the Crimean War – on the side of the Ottoman Empire against Russia
Florence Nightingale – improvement of the women’s conditions
Слайд 4Victorian Period
Albert dies in 1861 – 42
John Brown
Benjamin Disraeli
and William Ewart Gladstone
Gladstone – universal education and universal suffrage
64
years
Слайд 5The two world wars
“grandmother of Europe”
The Great War (WWI) –
1914-1918
The Labour Party
The General Strike – 1926
1928
1936 – Edward
VII – Wallis Simpson
George VI
Слайд 6The second world war
Nazi Germany
After the invasion of Poland in
September 1939
Winston Churchill - 1940
Слайд 7The postwar
1945 – bankrupt
India and Pakistan on 1947
To the Asian,
African and Carribean colonies in the 50s-80s
The British Commonwealth
of Nations – 53 states – 1.8 billion people
Слайд 8Elizabeth II
1952
B. 1926
60s – pop and rock music
70s – oil
crisis
Margaret Thatcher – 1979 – 1990 – the Iron Lady
John
Major
1997 – Tony Blair