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He called another general election in October 1974, thereby ending the shortest parliament since 1681, and was returned to office with a majority of just three seats. German bombing raids had already targeted Liverpool and Birmingham during August, but on 7 September the 'Blitz' intensified as 950 aircraft attacked London. On 24 October, the UN officially came into existence when its members ratified its charter. A total of 10,000 Jewish children between the ages of five and 17 were sent from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to Britain between December 1938 and the outbreak of war in September 1939. Deprivation was widespread and industrial relations deteriorated. It retreated after an initial engagement close to the Belgian border at Mons, then took part in a successful counter-attack on the river Marne in early September. The rally was broken up by police, and troops and tanks were deployed on Clydeside. France and Britain were commanded to govern their mandates in the interests of their inhabitants, until these territories were ready to be admitted to the League of Nations. Things became so bad in Hull it was dubbed 'the second Stalingrad'.

Already fighting Russia, Germany now faced a trench-based war of attrition on two fronts. Hitler had achieved in a matter of weeks what the German army had failed to do after four years of desperate fighting on the Western Front of World War One. By the end of D-Day, five beachheads were secured, and the Allies had a foothold in France. In 1933, German leader Adolf Hitler had withdrawn from the Disarmament Conference and the League of Nations in order to begin re-arming. The 19th century saw the political world begin to change. The election precipitated by the Lords' rejection of the 'People's Budget' resulted in 275 seats for the Liberals, 273 for the Conservatives and 40 for Labour. A Franco-German settlement was negotiated, but the British were alarmed, fearing the Germans planned to turn Agadir into a naval base. The 1918 Montagu-Chelmsford Report offered reform, but not self-rule - despite the sacrifices India had made in the war and US President Woodrow Wilson's declaration regarding national self-determination. He was premier for two-and-a-half years. The British passenger liner 'Lusitania' was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank with the loss of 1,200 lives. This treaty ended the war between the breakaway southern Irish Republic and Britain, and was supposed to resolve the sectarian 'Ulster problem' by partitioning Ireland. With the British government distracted by the constitutional crisis of Edward VIII's abdication, Irish Free State leader Éamon De Valera seized the opportunity to draw up a new constitution for Ireland that omitted any references to its place within the British Empire. The People's War: Britain 1939-45 (1969), highly influential survey Gandhi was imprisoned from 1930-1931, as were approximately 60,000 others. Lord Salisbury remained as prime minister and became the last premier to sit in the House of Lords. 1823 London Mechanics Institute founded. The first use of poison gas in World War One was by the Germans on 22 April 1915 during the opening engagements of the Second Battle of Ypres. Labour won 287 seats, the Conservatives 262 and the Liberals 59. The road to 1945: British politics and the Second World War (1975; 2nd ed. The liberation of Bergen-Belsen brought the horrors of Nazi genocide home to the British public when film and photographs of the camp appeared in British newspapers and cinemas. By September 1918, Germany was exhausted and saw no prospect of victory. Less than a week later, the Japanese leadership agreed to an unconditional surrender, and the Emperor Hirohito broadcast his nation's the capitulation over the radio. There was often a double bill of a main and 'B' feature, supported by a newsreel. The 1908 games were originally to be held in Rome, but were reassigned to London at short notice and held at the purpose-built White City stadium. Frederick, Duke of York, became a scandalous figure in 1809 when the public learned his former mistress had accepted money in exchange for the duke promoting people in the British Army. Here’s a list of British governments since 1945: Years in Office Party of Government Prime Minister 1945–1951 Labour Clement […] Well-organised government emergency measures and the lack of widespread public support for the strikers meant it was called off after nine days.