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British Politics For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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British Politics For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Julian Knight, Michael Pattison
May 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
424 pages
11h 27m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 25

Ten Political Events That Shaped the Modern World

In This Chapter

arrow Beating down the Berlin Wall

arrow Coming together for peace and prosperity: The European Union

arrow Bringing a new age of terror: 9/11

arrow Emerging into freedom: Nelson Mandela and South Africa

arrow Gazing over the brink: The financial crisis

When asked by a journalist what was likely to blow his government off course, former British prime minister Harold Macmillan quipped, ‘Events, dear boy, events.’ And it’s true that events, however minor they seem at the time, change the political landscape forever.

In this chapter I choose ten events that fundamentally altered the political world we live in during the second decade of the 21st century.

Hell on Earth: The Second World War

What to say about a conflict that saw the deaths of over 50 million people, the mass extermination of minorities such as the Jews and other atrocious war crimes – apart from acknowledging that between 1939 (the outbreak of war) and the final defeat of ...

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