The interwar years were difficult for Britain. The General Strike of May 1926 saw nearly two million workers stop work in support of striking miners, but it lasted only nine days and was defeated by the government. The Great Depression that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929 hit British heavy industry especially hard; areas such as the north-east of England and South Wales suffered mass unemployment.
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In 1936 jobless men marched 280 miles from Jarrow to London to draw attention to their plight. Politically, the period saw the rise of fascism in Europe and the appeasement of Nazi Germany under Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. War with Germany came again in September 1939.
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