Domestic Policy in the 20s

I. Class System

A. Education

II. Religion

III. Leisure

A. Spectator Sports

B. Cinema

C. Radio

Economic Downturn and Industrial Unrest

I. Unemployment

II. Return to the Gold Standard

A. £1=$4.86 in gold

III. Wage cuts

IV. Coal miners strike

V. Trades Union Congress (TUC) calls general strike, 2 May 1926

World Economic Crisis

I. Production Decline

II. Financial Crisis

A. Drain of gold reserves to US

B. Abandonment of gold standard, 21 September 1931

III. “National Government”, 1931

A. Ottowa Conference, 1932

B. “Imperial Preference”

IV. British Economic Recovery

Mrs. Simpson

I. Death of George V, Jan 1936

II. Wallace Simpson’s affair with Edward VIII

III. Constitutional Crisis