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Also, the German capital Berlin, which remained in the Soviet occupation zone was divided between the three winning powers and France into zones.


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The Allies divided Austria into four occupation zones, which later became independent as the Austrian state.


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Later, relations between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies became tighter, leading to the Cold War.


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Pacific War The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Force bombed the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.


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The attack destroyed most of the U.S. Pacific Fleet and caused the United States to enter the war on the Allied side.


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Japan next launched a major offensive into Malaysia, Borneo and the Philippines, capturing Singapore from the Britons, among others.


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The Japanese victory passage continued until May 1942, when the takeover of Port Moresby failed thanks to opposition from the U.S. Navy.


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A month later Japan sent a powerful naval contingent to take over the Midway base atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but surprisingly the American air gun managed to sink four Japanese aircraft carriers in the Battle of Midway [35] [36] partly for good fortune, partly for better because of tactics and reconnaissance — crash bombers were allowed to leisurely bomb aircraft carriers whose decks were filled with bombs, torpedoes and fuel.


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The vein blow meant Japan was put on the defensive.


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Through a long and heavy campaign, the Allies recaptured territories occupied by Japan.


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The Marines and Navy played a key role in capturing Iwo Jima and Okinawa, among others, in bloody battles.


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The outnumbered Japanese resorted to kamikaze tactics, suicide attacks by aircraft and baka bombs against US ships.


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Specific tactics such as ramming (ramming) were developed against B-29 bombers.


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[37] [38] From the captured islands, the United States began intense air operations against the main Japanese islands and, for example, the bombardment of Tokyo became the largest operation of its kind until then.


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In 1945, too, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, recapturing Manchuria.


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On August 15, 1945, a week after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered and was occupied.


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[39] More people died in war in World War II than in any war before or since.


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Estimates of the number of people who perished vary between 50 million and 70 million.


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Between 22 million and 25 million soldiers were killed, and civilian casualties totaled between 40 and 52 million.


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Consequences of war Europe After World War II, Europe was in political, economic and social crisis.


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Many major cities that flourished before the war had been disposed of into piles of rubble and millions of people had been left homeless.


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Infrastructure, agriculture and industry suffered immense devastation, especially in Central and Eastern Europe.


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Britain and France were among the winning nations of the war, but their status as global superpowers had been destroyed by warfare.


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The Marshall Plan, named after him, was initiated by U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall to finance the reconstruction of Europe with $13 billion (about one hundred billion dollars at current exchange values) donated by the United States.


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The Soviet Union did not agree to participate in the economic program and withheld development aid from Eastern Bloc countries.


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By the 1950s, Western European countries participating in the Marshall Plan exceeded pre-war production figures and had become political and military allies of the United States.


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After the war, Western European countries rejected the idea of white supremacy and condemned the conduct of human rights abuses and war crimes.


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They began to build rules of law based on human rights, democracy, egalitarianism, the principle of legality and multilateralism.


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Western European countries wanted to consolidate respect for democracy and human rights by establishing the Council of Europe as a cooperative organisation in 1949.


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In 1951, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg created the European Coal and Steel Community to prevent European states from being able to freely obtain coal and steel for the arms race.


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The European Coal and Steel Community was also intended to end hostilities between France and Germany.


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The creation of the Cooperation Organizations of European States led to European integration in the following decades.


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European integration, in turn, culminated in the creation of the European Union in 1992.


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The Allies occupied Germany and divided the country into occupation zones that were under U.S., British, French, and Soviet control.


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The country's capital Berlin was separately divided into occupation zones.


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Berlin's infrastructure had experienced severe destruction from the trail of urban combat and other major German population centres such as Essen, Dortmund, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart had been razed to the ground by aerial bombardment.


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The US confiscated technological know-how and all patents from Germany.


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The industrial area of the Ruhr was under international control and until 1957 the Saarland was held by the French.


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The Germans had to pay war reparations partly through forced labour in Central Europe and the Soviet Union.


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German society experienced not only infrastructure collapse but deep national humiliation.


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In a denazification aimed at dismantling the former National Socialist system, Germans were made to feel collective guilt about Hitler's rise to power, the outbreak of war and massacres committed by the Nazis.


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The public display of German symbols, such as the swastika and the Heil Hitler salute, was made punishable acts by law.


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Millions of German citizens and ethnic Germans were driven out of German-occupied countries in Operation Keelhaul, in which tens of thousands of people died.


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As the Cold War intensified, Western powers allowed Germans into German territory to establish a 1948 German Parliamentary Committee, which drafted a 1949 constitution for the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), which was capitalist.


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Similarly, in the Soviet-occupied part of German territory, the communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) emerged, whose leaders mostly came with Soviet troops to Germany at the end of the war.


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Later, the Wall that divided Berlin in two (1961—1989) became a symbol of the Iron Curtain dividing Europe's capitalist west and communist east and the Cold War as a whole.


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The abolition of the German dictatorship led to political changes: the Federal Republic of Germany quickly democratised, adopting the multi-party system already existed in the Weimar Republic, while East Germany, or GDR, became a communist one-party dictatorship.


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The Federal Republic's economy prospered in the 1950s and the country had one of the most stable economies in Europe, but the GDR economy was weak due to war reparations paid to the Soviet Union and its planned economy was not as competitive as the open market economy of the Federal Republic of Germany.


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In 1989, the Berlin Wall came down and in 1990, Germany was reunified as the Federal Republic of Germany, meaning the GDR was annexed into the Federal Republic of Germany.


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Austria was also under Allied occupation and experienced denazification, but the occupation ended up definitively as early as 1955.


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The country adopted a mixed economy and neutrality policy, rising to the ranks of Europe's developed industrialized nations.


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As Britain and France waned, the Soviet Union became a political, military and economic world power, but it was also the nation worst affected by the ravages of war.


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The Eastern Front had been the most large-scale battletanner of the entire war, as it was the venue for the most devastating battles and massacres of the war, as well as almost all death marches, extermination camps and ghettos.


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The Soviet Union financed the reconstruction with war reparations received from the Axis forces and began an economic recovery.


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The Soviet Union also achieved considerable expansions of territory by annexing the Baltic States as a whole in Europe, the outer islands of the Gulf of Finland, the eastern parts of the municipalities of Salla and Kuusamo, Petsamo and the majority of Karelia belonging to Finland, half of the Eastern part of Germany. Prussia (Kaliningrad region), the territories east of the Curzon line belonging to Poland, Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to Romania, and South Sakhalin and Kuril that belonged to Japan in Asia.


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On the other hand, Poland was annexed the easternmost part of the former German territories up to the Oder—Neisse line.


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From these territories annexed to Poland, as well as the Sudeten territories returned to Czechoslovakia, were expelled after the war the entire German population living in them.


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Fearing a repeat of the German war of aggression, the Soviet Union decided to create a buffer countries exclusion zone as a barrier to further attacks from the West.


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At the end of the war, the Soviet Union occupied Poland and Czechoslovakia, which had been conquered by Germany and Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria, which were part of the Axis powers, and Soviet troops remained in these countries even after the war.


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With Soviet support, communist parties rose to power in all these countries after the war, as well as in the GDR, and they remained in power until the fold of the 1980s and 1990s.


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Massacres enforced by Germany caused immense devastation to civilian populations throughout Eastern Europe.


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The Nazis attempt to completely destroy the Polish nation-state for German settler settlement, forcibly displacing the population into concentration camps and plundering all economic resources.


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More than half of Poland's nobility, clergy, intellectuals and academically educated people were murdered.


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Belarus lost a quarter of its population and almost its entire Jewish minority.


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The Ukrainian and Yugoslav populations also experienced tremendous eradication.


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In the Soviet Union, civilians died in millions not only in fighting and massacres, but also in famine and the Nazi slave labor program.


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Germany's goal was to destroy the Soviet state, colonize Russia with German settlers, and subjugate the Slavs to forced labour by the Germans.


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Of the world's 15 million Jews, one-third were eradicated in the final phase of the Final Solution, the Holocaust.


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[40] Up to 90 percent of the three million Jews in the Ashkenasi Jewish heartland of Poland were killed.


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In the Holocaust, millions of members of other ethnic groups such as Slavs and Roma, as well as politically and socially undesirable persons, were also killed in the Holocaust.


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Asia Japan's surrender to the Allies led to the US occupation regime.


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Japanese society was in a state of turmoil in its first years of occupation and homelessness and food shortages prevailed in bombed-out cities.


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U.S. President Harry S. Truman appointed General Douglas MacArthur as Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Occupation Administration and Commander of the SCAP Control Commission to lead the democratization and disarmament of the country.


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The occupation involved not only the US but also international troops from the British Commonwealth.


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In 1952, Japan became a sovereign state, but Okinawa was held by the United States until 1972 and the island has served until the present day as a US military base.


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In territorial credentials, Japan lost its takeover of Korea to the United States and the Soviet Union in the early 20th century, the island of Taiwan to China, South Sakhalin and the Kurills to the Soviet Union, and the Ryūkyūū Islands to the United States, but the latter were given back to Japan upon the end of the occupation of Okinawa.


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The Japanese who lived in Manchukuo, Korea and Taiwan were deported to their homeland.


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MacArthur excluded Emperor Hirohito and the Imperial Family from the war crimes trials in order to establish a symbol for the unity of the Japanese people.


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The post of emperor became a ceremonial institution and in order to dismantle the imperial cult, Hirohito had to inform the people that he was not of divine origin.


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The war defeat was a subject of immense national shame and profound humiliation for the Japanese, who had a strong sense of tribute stemming from age-old folklore.


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The United States began the modernization and Westernization of Japan, which culminated into the pacifist 1947 constitution.


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It says Japan is a parliamentary democracy and a rule of law that abides by human rights.


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The ninth article of the Constitution ensured the demilitarization of Japan by denying Japan warfare in all political and military conflicts, as well as the maintenance of the armed forces.


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The country also gave women the right to vote, dissolved conglomerates known as zaibatsu, and implemented land and education reforms.


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In the 1950s, Japan experienced phenomenal economic growth as one of the world's most technologically advanced countries and leading economic powers.


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The fracture of the military might of the Empire of Japan and the end of occupying powers over the lands it conquered had far-reaching political implications for the countries of East and Southeast Asia.


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During the war, Japan had occupied many of the Far Eastern colonies that belonged to European countries, abolishing their European colonialist rule.


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After the war, the mother countries attempted to reconquer their colonies, but under the influence of the independence movements that influenced those countries, the mother countries no longer gained a political foothold.


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In 1947, the British main colony of India gained independence, whose independence treaty created the states of Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan.


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The French attempt to regain control of the colonies in Indochina led to the Indochina War.


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At the 1954 Geneva Conference, France recognized Vietnam's independence, and France's defeat in the war also led to Laos and Cambodia gaining independence.


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However, Vietnam's bifurcation into North and South Vietnam later led to the Vietnam War.


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In 1949, an independent Indonesian state emerged on the site of the Dutch East Indies


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The wave of independence of Asian countries contributed to the fact that, in other parts of the world, colonies became independent within the next few decades.


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After the end of the Japanese occupying power, the Philippines continued to complete the independence process, becoming a sovereign state in 1946.


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In 1948, the capitalist Republic of Korea (South Korea) and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) emerged.


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South and North Korea fought the 1950—1953 Korean War, for which no definitive armistice agreement was signed.


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In China, General Chiang Kai-šek lost the civil war to Mao Zedong, who in 1949 founded the People's Republic of China.


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Chiang Kai-šek and his supporters fled to the island of Taiwan, which gained independence in 1950 as the Republic of China.


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In the 1960s, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore became the economically developed “Tigers of Asia”, and the People's Republic of China became Asia's political and military powerhouse.


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The fierce anti-Semitism of Germany and the genocide of Jews in the Holocaust intensified support for Zionism and calls for the establishment of an independent state as a refuge for the world's Jews.


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On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly decided on the creation of a Jewish state for the British Mandate of Palestine in the Middle East, which had widely survived the ravages of war untouched.


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Under the plan, a state for Muslim Arabs was also to be established next to the Jewish state in the former Mandate area.


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The Jewish community accepted the plan, but accordingly, almost all Arab leaders rejected it because they did not agree to share Palestine with the Jews.


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The conflict between Zionism and Arab nationalism was deepened by a religious dispute over Jerusalem in Palestine, a holy city for both Judaism and Islam.


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In 1948, the Jewish State of Israel issued a Declaration of Independence, followed by Israel's War of Independence against Arab lands and the Palestinian refugee issue over the fate of Palestinians who went into exile.


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The hostility and political tension between Arab countries and Israel, known as the Arab—Israeli conflict, has continued to the present day.


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World Politics After World War II, the winning states wanted to consolidate understanding between nations and guarantee the maintenance of international peace by signing the Charter of the United Nations on 26 June 1945 and establishing the United Nations Charter on 24 October 1945 nations as the successor to the League of Nations.


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The League of Nations had been established as a peace organisation to prevent the Great War following World War I, but was deemed to have failed in the mission and the organisation was dissolved in 1946.


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In 1948, the Third General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which stressed the importance of human rights to world peace and the well-being of humanity.


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The message of the declaration reflected the world consensus condemning the war of aggression and the Holocaust initiated by Germany.


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On July 18, 1950, UNESCO issued a statement titled The Race Question, condemning racial discrimination and racial hygiene policies in all its forms and revoking as unfounded the big-nationalist and pseudo-scientific notions of certain human races that prevailed in the first half of the 20th century of inferiority.


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In a new world political climate that emphasizes international relations, far-right political ideas founded on totalitarianism, militarism, nationalism and racism no longer gained ground in European countries, except in Phalangist Spain, which democratised after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.


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Fascism and National Socialism in the 1930s disappeared almost completely from the political map of Europe, and the Nazis in particular began to be weaned out of the influence of German expansionist policies on the outbreak of World War I, aggressive warfare and genocide of ethnic minorities.


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The war winning states attributed the popular popularity of far-right governments of the Axis powers to the economic chaos of the 1930s Depression and subsequent social distress, hence the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Bretton Woods the system was set up to prevent another collapse of the world economy.


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After the end of the war, the Allies held war crimes trials in Europe and Asia for political and military leaders of the Axis powers to demonstrate that international law does not accept violations of the rules of war.


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In Germany, the National Socialist Workers' Party, Gestapo, SS and SD were declared illegal criminal organizations whose members had to be jailed and tried for their war crimes and human rights abuses.


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At the Nuremberg Trials of 1946, Germany's highest-ranking politicians and military leaders of the war were sentenced to death or prison terms.


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The Nuremberg Trials were the first international war crimes tribunal.


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Drafted through litigation, the Nuremberg Code is one of the cornerstones of modern medical ethics.


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The trials also categorized the definitions of “crime against humanity” and “crime against peace” as serious human rights violations, for which those perpetrated must be brought to trial under international law.


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Seven war crimes trials in Poland declared the former Polish Governor-General illegal and imposed death penalties in the Governor-General on Nazi war criminals involved in the Holocaust.


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There were also trials in Europe for leaders of Germany's allies and, through joint action with German occupiers, politicians guilty of treason, such as Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu, Vichy French head of state Philippe Pétain and Norway's puppet government to Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling.


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At the Tokyo International War Crimes Tribunal, members of the government and military leaders of the Empire of Japan were sentenced to punishments similar to those in Nuremberg in Europe.


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Trials at the Tokyo International War Crimes Tribunal also convicted members of the Imperial Japanese Army officers involved in war crimes in Manchuria, the Philippines and other Japanese-occupied territories.


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The convictions of war crimes trials were based on the 1928 Kellogg—Briand Treaty, which prohibited warfare as a tool of politics.


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The Second World War contributed to the end of centuries of imperialism and colonialism, and in particular the colonial rule of Europeans.


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The Allies had emphasized the sovereignty and freedom of peoples in the war, making it difficult for the Western powers to justify their colonial rule.


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Moreover, during the war, for example, Britain had promised many colonies independence after the war.


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The war had put a strain on the colonies and they were forced to finance the rebuilding of their mother lands.


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The politics of the mother countries provoked outrage in the colonies, where World War II was mainly considered to be Europe's war, rather than their war.


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The success of the Asian Empire of Japan in World War II had also shown that European colonial hosts were not invincible, contributing to emboldening the colonies to demand independence.


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Attempts for independence by the European colonies began decolonization in Asia and Africa, which continued until the end of the 20th century.


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The final fracture of the British Empire, which still flourished at the beginning of the 20th century, was not only due to the economic losses of the war, but also to the decolonisation of the colonies.


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After independence, however, the former colonies of the British Empire decided to join the Commonwealth, which had been established in 1931 by Britain and some of its former colonies that had already become independent.


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Britain, France, Germany and Japan emerged as leading states by the United States and the Soviet Union, whose global political, economic and military influence made them superpowers.


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The United States had been spared the destruction of infrastructure and industry in the war, making it the most powerful and technologically advanced nation in the world immediately after the end of the war.


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However, the Soviet Union achieved military and political overdomination by occupying Eastern Europe and establishing new communist dictatorships.


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By the time of Germany's collapse, Europe had been divided ideologically into a capitalist west and a communist east, and political and economic divisions between the superpowers led to nearly the next five decades of Cold War.


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Superpowers acquired allies in Third World developing countries and waged indirect warfare in them by means of surrogate warfare.


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They also established military alliances among European allies, the United States NATO and the Soviet Union the Warsaw Pact.


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Both superpowers were also in possession of a nuclear weapon invented in World War II, which for the first time gave humanity the ability to eradicate itself to extinction in a very short term.


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The fall of communist dictatorships in Eastern Europe in the revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 ended the Cold War.


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President Harry S. Truman declared hostilities with Germany ceased on December 31, 1946.


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In the Paris Peace Treaty of 10 February 1947, the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union negotiated peace treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland, which were part of the Axis powers.


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On September 8, 1951, 49 countries signed the San Francisco Treaty, which went into effect on April 28, 1952.


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The treaty formally ended World War II, established peace between Japan and the Allies, and imposed war reparations for Japanese war crimes victims.


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The state of war between the United States and Germany ended with President Truman and the United States Congress by decision of October 19, 1951, but the state of war between the Soviet Union and Germany did not end until 1955.


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On September 12, 1990, the United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, West Germany, and East Germany entered into an agreement of unification of Germans, which went into effect on March 15, 1991.


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The treaty made the Federal Republic of Germany a fully sovereign state, gave it sovereignty over its capital Berlin, and finally ended World War II in Europe.


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After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the last troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation left Germany in 1994.


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— a brief overview of Facts and Fascism (1943) by George Seldes The Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee on War Mobilization, headed by Senator Harley M. Kilgore, held several hearings throughout the second half of 1945 focused that on German economic penetration of neutral countries, elimination of German resources for war, German's resources for a third world war, etc.


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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (,), officially also Great Britain and Northern Ireland or the United Kingdom, [1] is an island nation in Northern Europe.


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It is formed from England, Scotland and Wales, located on the island of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland.


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In addition to this, Britain holds some islands and archipelagos near these, as well as a few distant overseas territories.


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The United Kingdom covers an area of 243610 square kilometres.


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[2] The country has a population of approximately 64.3 million, making it the third largest member state in the European Union by population.


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[3] The British Empire was the largest empire in world history.


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The empire began with the English colonies in North America and, at best, controlled more than a quarter of the world's population and acreage.


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The empire has once controlled, for example, the whole of the British Isles, Canada, Australia, the east coast of the United States (thirteen settlements), New Zealand, about half of Africa (South Africa to Egypt), India, Palestine (now Israel), Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Bhutan, Burma, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, most of the Caribbean archipelago and Oceania archipelago, Cyprus, Malta, Hong Kong, as well as the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar, which are still controlled by Britain.


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[4] The British Empire was a superpower and for a long time also the only one of those.


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[5] The British Armed Forces were once the largest in the world and its fleet controlled all the seas of the world.


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[6] Britain gained ground through many great wars, especially when it was on the victors” side in them leading or belonging to the leading nations.


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Such wars included, for example, the Seven Years' War, the Napoleonic Wars, and the First and Second World Wars.


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The high debt following the World Wars brought about the end of the British Empire and the peaceful independence of the colonies.


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Britain lost its superdominance in the 1956 Suez Crisis.


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However, to this day Britain is a superpower [7] and belongs to the UN Security Council.


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The state has the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world, [8] [9] and also its armed forces are the fourth largest in terms of budget.


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[10] Britain's economy is the sixth largest in the world.


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[11] Geography The United Kingdom consists of the island of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on the island of Ireland, as well as about a thousand smaller islands that exist especially off the coast of Scotland.


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It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, its parts the North Sea, the Irish Sea and the English Channel.


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Due to the breach of the coastline, there is no land more than 125 kilometers out to sea.


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The island of Great Britain is separated from the mainland at Dover at its narrowest by the 35km-wide English Channel.


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From Dover runs the sea below the Channel Tunnel to France.


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There are 360 kilometres of land border against the Republic of Ireland.


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[2] Most of England is populated lowland.


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The largest rivers are the Thames, which flows through London, and the Severn, which descends west into the Bristol Channel.


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[12] On the coast of England are the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.


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Wales is mostly mountainous, with its highest peak Snowdon reaching 1085 metres.


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[13] In Scotland topography varies, to the south are the Lowlands and to the north and the Highlands to the west, as is Scotland's highest peak, the 1,343 metre high Ben Nevis.


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Many fjords (firth) extend inland and deep lakes (loch) run parallel to them.


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The most famous of these is probably Loch Ness, situated in the Glen More valley stretching across Scotland.


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[14] There are several islands and island groups along the Scottish coast, the most notable of which are the Hebrides, the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands.


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[15] The largest cities in England are the capital London (7.6 million inhabitants in 2008), Birmingham (1.0 million and the metropolitan area with 2.4 million inhabitants) and Manchester (466,000, with a metropolitan area of 2.3 million).


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In Scotland, the largest cities are Glasgow (population 637,000) and Edinburgh (452,000).


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The largest city in Wales is Cardiff (311,000) and Northern Ireland's Belfast (268,000).


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[16] Climate Britain's climate is known as variable.


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Weather is generally cool or temperate, clouds and rain are common, but pouta periods occur all seasons too.


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The regional differences are small.


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The highest rainfall is obtained in the mountains of Scotland, Wales and northern England, exceeding 1,500millimetres, in places up to 5,000millimetres per year.


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However, almost all the settlement is at a height of less than 300 m above sea level, and there the rainfall is less pronounced.


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It's drier to the east than in the west.


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[17] Fog is commonly found especially during the winter half of the year.


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Snow can fall anywhere, but on low-lying lands it rarely stays longer than a few days.


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[17] In East Anglia, in the south-east of the country, the average daily lowest temperature of the coldest months, January and February, is around one degree, while in July and August the highest of the day averages 22 degrees.


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[18] In northern Scotland, the average daily lowest temperature of the coldest months, January and February, is slightly on the frosty side, while in July and August the highest of the day averages 16 degrees.


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[19] The highest temperature ever measured in Britain was 38.5 °C in Favesham in August 2003.


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The lowest temperature, −27.2 °C, has been measured in Scotland several times: 1895, 1982 and 1995.


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[20] Nature and Nature Conservation In a state of nature, most of Britain would be covered in oak-rich mixed forest.


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However, forests have been cleared to make way for farming since the Bronze Age.


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Trees have also been felled to meet the needs of buildings and to be burned into charcoal for smelting metals.


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Almost the entire land area is suitable for farming except the highest uplands and some marshy areas.


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[21] Some 65 wild mammal species live in Britain [22] and 259 species of birds.


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[23] There are fifteen national parks in Britain: ten in England, two in Scotland and three in Wales.


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Parks have been established starting in the 1950s and protect not just nature but the rustic landscape and cultural heritage.


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Thus, their territory is inhabited and engaged in farming.


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The land for the parks is mainly privately owned, with some belonging to trusts such as the National Trust.


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[24] History Early stages Before the Roman period, Britain was inhabited by Welsh peoples, Scottish Picts and Britain's own stock population.


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Julius Caesar began the British conquest in 55—54 BCE, and the province of Britain, comprising present-day England and Wales, was part of the Roman Empire until the 4th century.


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[25] After the Romans conquered the British islands, the British came into close contact with continental Europe.


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Following the Romans, the country was invaded by the Angls, Saxons and Jutes in the 5th century and by the Normans in 1066.


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During the Norman rule, current characteristics began to develop in England, such as London's position as a centre of economy, culture and politics, a strong but distinct position of the church, representative governance and a strong university institution.


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[26] Scotland drifted under English rule, and in the 12th century Henry II also conquered Ireland.


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The kings who succeeded him got into clashes with the clergy and nobility, resulting in Juhana Maaton being forced to make concessions and publish the statute collection Magna Cartan.


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Robert the Bruce restored Scottish independence in 1314, and the Tudors rose to become ruler of England after the War of the Roses (1455—1485).


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The Tudor monarch Henry VIII founded the Church of England and formally annexed Wales as part of England.


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[25] Henry assumed in 1541 the title King of Ireland, after which one can speak of the Kingdom of Ireland.


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[26] England began its colonial conquest during the period of Elizabeth I.


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[25] England had a brief republican period in the mid-17th century after the Civil War.


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It ended in 1660 when Charles II rose to become King of England.


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[25] England and Scotland were ruled by the same monarch from 1603, permanently joining as the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707.


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[26] Great Power Period and World Wars The Act of Union, which came into force in 1801, united the Kingdom of Ireland and the Kingdom of Great Britain, thus forming the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.


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In 1922, the 26 counties of Ireland formed the Irish Free State, with six remaining in union, with the name being changed to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1927.


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[2] [27] Britain was the most significant industrial and military power and colonial power of the 19th century, at its most extensive encompassing some 30 million square kilometres and almost a quarter of the Earth's population.


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It was then that the saying was born that the Sun never sets over the British Empire.


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[28] The transformation known as the Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries, bringing the country into a world-leading economic power.


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Furthermore, British colonial rule was at its greatest during the Victorian period (1837—1901).


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[25] By the beginning of the 20th century, other countries had achieved a British head start in industrialisation.


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During the 1920s the empire began to fall apart when Ireland gained independence in 1921, [26] although the six Ulster provinces remained their mother country and formed Northern Ireland.


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[25] In 1926, Australia, Canada and New Zealand gained independence, but joined the British Commonwealth.


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The unraveling of colonial rule continued after World War II, beginning with the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.


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[26] In World War I, the United Kingdom was one of the circumference powers alongside Russia, France and the United States against Germany.


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As one of the winning nations, it was about to conclude the peace of Versailles.


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[29] Hundreds of thousands of Britons died in the war.


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[30] In World War II, the United Kingdom was one of the Allies, again along with France and the US as well as the Soviet Union against Germany.


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When Germany invaded Poland, Britain, in accordance with the security guarantees it had given, declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939.


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As the war spread to Belgium, the British managed to evacuate much of their troops from Dunkirk across the Channel.


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The Germans waged a fierce air war against the British, but the battle for Britain was not successful and Adolf Hitler did not occupy Britain.


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[30] In North Africa, the British repulsed the Italians in Egypt, and had to fight against the Germans who came to their aid as well.


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[31] War in the Mediterranean also encompassed extensive naval warfare, with aircraft operating from aircraft carriers.


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[32] After the World Wars, after World War II, Britain abandoned its colonies in India, and a welfare state began to be built in the country with free health care and education.


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[30] In 1956, Britain was still trying to pursue great power politics against Egypt, which had been largely British-owned, nationalised the Suez Canal, and invaded the country with French and Israeli support.


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The botched operation led to the resignation of Conservative Prime Minister Anthony Eden.


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British colonies in sub-Saharan Africa became independent mainly in the 1960s, starting with Ghana's independence in 1957.


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In 1973 Britain joined the European Community.


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[30] The situation in Northern Ireland escalated in 1972 after Bloody Sunday.


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The Irish Republican Army then embarked on a campaign of terror, the casualties of which were also numerous on English soil.


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[25] The government of the Conservatives under Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1990 made many radical reforms, privatising large parts of state enterprises and snubbing trade unions.


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Thatcher's popularity peaked after the triumphant 1982 Falklands War against Argentina.


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In 1990, however, he was ousted by John Major.


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In 1997, Labour, led by Tony Blair, achieved an election victory, and Blair rose to become Prime Minister.


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[30] In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was concluded to bring peace to Northern Ireland.


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The following year, their own parliaments were established in Wales and Scotland.


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[30] Blair sided with 2003 for U.S. support in the Iraq War, seeking and destroying Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.


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In 2004, Blair admitted he had been wrong about weapons of mass destruction, but still thought the war was justified.


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In 2007, Britain began withdrawing its troops from Iraq.


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[30] In 2008-09 Britain was in the throes of a bad banking crisis.


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The central bank cut the rate to 1.5 percent, the lowest figure in its 315-year history.


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Banks were heavily supported by the state, and unemployment figures rose.


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[30] In 2009-10, a number of MPs were caught abusing expenses claims.


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In the 2010 general election, the Conservatives won the most seats but not a qualified majority.


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David Cameron set up a coalition government along with the Liberal Democrats.


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[30] Cameron announced that he would hold a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.


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In the vote, the British ended up in favour of resignation.


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Cameron resigned and was succeeded by Theresa May.


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Politics The United Kingdom is a parliamentary monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as its monarch.


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The monarch basically has sweeping powers, including the right to declare war and elect a prime minister.


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Theoretically, the governance of the United Kingdom as a whole exists from the appropriation of the monarch.


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In practice, the monarch does not wield great power, but power is exercised in the name of the monarch by a democratically elected parliament and prime minister.


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[26] The United Kingdom is one of the few countries in the world that do not have a formal constitution; all the laws of a country can in principle be amended by a simple parliamentary majority.


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In practice, however, a 700-year tradition prevents them from varying on whims.


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[26] However, there is talk of an unwritten constitution that governs the functioning of the bodies of state, whereby, for example, the monarch abides from political decisions and the supreme executive power vested in that law is exercised by the Prime Minister.


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The Parliament of the United Kingdom is bicameral.


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Members to the 650-member lower house () are elected by election and to the upper house () are appointed.


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Members of the House of Lords include about 700 lifelong recipients of personal nobility and bishops of the Church of England.


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The Lords Act 1999 ended heritable membership of the House of Lords, but its 92 surviving seats inherited were allowed to remain members.


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Members of the House of Commons are elected from single-representative constituencies.


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Elections to the House of Commons must be held at least every five years, but often take place before the deadline.


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[2] The Prime Minister is usually the leader of the largest party in the House of Commons, since 2016 Theresa May of the Conservatives.


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[2] Since the 1920s, the main parties have been the Conservative Party and the Labour Party.


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The electoral system for single-candidate constituencies favours a two-party system, with either of the parties usually holding governmental responsibility.


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The third largest party is the Liberal Democratic Party, formed in 1988 by the merger of the old Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party.


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It advocates changing the electoral system and abandoning the two-party system.


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[33] In the 2010 election, the Liberal Democrats won 23% of the vote, but less than ten percent of the seats.


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[2] In the House of Commons elected in 2010, the Conservatives have 305 seats, Labour 258, the Liberal Democrats 57 and the others have 30.


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[2] In 1999, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh People's Assembly were established, over which the Scottish Parliament has legislative powers.


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Since 2003, Northern Ireland has its own 108-member parliament and a further 18 seats in the Westminster Parliament.


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The transfer of power to Belfast was frozen in 2003 but completed in 2010.


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[26] Active in various countries include the nationalist Welsh Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party and Cornwall's Mebyon Kernow, who advocate either more autonomy or independence for the countries.


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[34] Theresa May announced on 18 April 2017 that the country would hold general elections on 6 June 2017.


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In the past, he has promised elections only in 2020.


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[35] Contrary to what had been anticipated, the outcome of the election was a disappointment for the Conservatives, as the expected great success did not come.


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The party remained just and just the largest, but lost its majority position in Parliament.


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[36] In the final results, the Conservatives won 42.4% of the vote and 318 seats; Labour in turn received 40.4% of the vote and seats 262.


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[37] Foreign Policy The United Kingdom is a member of the Commonwealth, European Union and NATO.


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It has a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council and veto power over its decisions.


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By 2003, it had exercised its right 32 times, 23 times to support the United States and alone on issues concerning Zimbabwe.


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[38] Since the Brexit referendum, the British Government has begun a process leading to the withdrawal from the EU at 23:00 (UTC) on 29 March 2019 unless an extension is agreed.


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[39] The United Kingdom is one of the few nuclear weapons states.


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Its deterrent includes four Vanguard-class ballistic missile submarines each armed with sixteen Trident II missiles and 48 nuclear warheads.


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The system was introduced in 1994 to replace the Resolution-class submarines and Polaris missiles introduced in 1968.


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[40] The Air Force gave up WE.177 nuclear weapons in 1998 and the Navy in 1992.


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[41] The planned lifespan of the Trident Guidelines will end in 2024.


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In 2006, the Prime Minister announced that Britain was planning to renew submarines and Trident missiles, which would extend their operational period until the 2040s.


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[42] The United Kingdom has traditionally enjoyed a close relationship with the United States.


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The phrase was already formulated by Winston Churchill, and its continuation has been questioned in the 2010s.


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[43] Parts of the United Kingdom: At the top level of NUTS, the United Kingdom is divided into 12 regions: nine regions (regions), Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.


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[44] There are nine areas in England still divided into 34 counties (county) and 47 administrative units known as Unitary authority.


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Outside this regional division, there are 36 metropolitan areas and 33 London subdivisions.


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There are 32 local council-run areas in Scotland.


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There are 22 municipalities in Wales, of which 10 are urban districts (county borough), nine are counties and three are urban.


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There are 26 municipalities in Northern Ireland.


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[44] The United Kingdom, as a remnant of the British Empire, also has a series of enclaves.


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De jure these British overseas territories (former crown colonies) are not parts of the United Kingdom, but Britain handles their foreign policy.


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These include: [45] Anguilla Bermuda British Indian Ocean Territory () British Virgin Islands () Cayman Islands Falkland Islands Gibraltar Montserrat Pitcairn Saint Helena South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands () Turks and Caicos Islands.


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Also comparable to these are the self-governing islands in the vicinity of Britain, the Isle of Man (), as well as Jersey and Guernsey.


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In addition, the United Kingdom has military bases in Akrotiri and Dhekelia in Cyprus. [46].


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It has claimed an area of 17,09400 square miles in size from Antarctica.


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[47] In the Finnish language, the country as a whole is referred to as Britain, Great Britain or English.


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[1] In fact, however, England is only one part of the United Kingdom.


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The British, especially the Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish, may find offensive the use of the name to mean the state as a whole.


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[48] [49] The Finnish Language Board recommends preferably using the name Britannia, but also accepts the name English for the whole state.


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[50] From 1801, when Ireland became part of the Kingdom, until 1921, when Ireland became independent, the state was called the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.


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This was preceded by the Kingdom of Great Britain, formed in 1707 with the unification of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland.


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Economy The UK economy is one of the largest in the world, measured by purchasing power adjusted GDP, ninth in the world and second in Europe (after Germany) in 2017. inflation, interest rates and unemployment (4.4% in 2017) have remained low.


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[2] Great Britain was the cradle of the Industrial Revolution, but today industry still produces a fifth of GDP (19% in 2017).


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coal mining is almost completely exhausted.


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Industry's share of the economy is still declining.


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North Sea oil and gas resources are running out and the country has been a net importer of energy since 2005.


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[2] 80% of electricity is generated by fossil fuels, making the UK 2008 the eighth largest carbon emitter in the world.


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[51] In 2010, 47% of electricity was generated by gas, 28% by coal, 16% by nuclear power and 7% from renewable energy sources.


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It is planned to increase the share of renewable energy sources to 30% by 2020.


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[52] Agriculture is efficient and highly mechanised, producing 60% of food consumed with less than 2% of the labour force.


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[2] Agriculture has experienced setbacks due to mad cow disease and the extensive foot-and-mouth crisis of 2001.


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[53] The services sector, particularly banking and insurance and business services, account for the majority of GDP and employ more than 80% of the workforce.


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[2] The City of London is a global financial centre and the London Stock Exchange among the largest in the world.


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[54] [55] Tourism is also an important source of income, with over 30 million tourists visiting the country every year, [56] making it the sixth most popular tourist destination in the world.


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With the recession, the number of tourists and the amount of money they spend has dwindled.


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[57] Major export products include industrial goods, fuels, chemicals, food, beverages and tobacco.


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The biggest destination countries for exports are the United States, Germany, France, Ireland and Belgium.


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[2] The British government has opted out of joining the eurozone and opinion polls suggest the people support the decision.


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[2] Transport in Britain is 505 airports, nine of which have runways more than three kilometres long.


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[2] In 2011, the busiest fields were Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester, Stansted, Luton, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Glasgow and Bristol.


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[58] There are 16,454km of railways.


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[2] In 2010, 1,353 million journeys were made on the railway, totaling 65 billion km.


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Train traffic grew by around 6 to 7 per cent compared with the previous year.


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90.9 per cent of the trains ran on time.


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[59] The international train service comes along the Eurotunnel from the Channel, and the trains running it also bring cars.


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[60] Freight ports include Dover, Felixstowe, Immingham, Liverpool, London, Southampton and Teesport in England, Forth Ports in Scotland and Milford Haven in Wales.


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[2] Passenger ferries operate from Holyhead to Ireland, Dover to France, Harwich and Hull to Holland and Belgium, Portsmouth to Spain and Newcastle to Norway and Sweden.


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[60] Britain has left-hand traffic.


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Population In July 2011, the UK was estimated to have a population of 62,698,362.


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Ethnically broken down, English people make up 81.5%, Scots 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Northern Irish 1.8% and West Indians, Indians, Pakistanis and others 2.8% of the population.


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[2] In the 2011 census, 59.5% of the population reported themselves as Christians.


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[2] In a survey conducted in 2017, 41% answered this way.


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[61] According to 2007 statistics, ten per cent of the population attended church every week, the highest number of regular church-goers was in Northern Ireland, the fewest in Wales.


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[62] The Church of England is the official state church.


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[63] The Catholic Church has about five million members.


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[64] The main language is the English language.


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More than half a million Welsh people speak Welsh, which is part of the Celtic languages, which is also used to broadcast radio and television programmes.


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Gaelic is spoken by about 58,000 people in Scotland, mostly in the Hebrides.


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In Northern Ireland, 95000 people speak Irish.


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In total, 12 indigenous languages are spoken in the country according to Ethnologue's definitions.


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The major immigrant languages are Punjabi (East and West Punjabi with a total of 574000 speakers), Urdu and Bengali (400,000 both), and Sylheti, sometimes counted as a Bengali dialect (300,000 speakers) [65] According to a 2004 WHO survey, British alcohol consumption is 22 in the world. Ranked, converted to pure alcohol at slightly more than ten litres per adult.


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Consumption in Finland, Belgium and Saint Lucia in the Caribbean is almost at the same level.


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[66] Education Education is compulsory between the age of five and sixteenth, but in January 2007 the government announced that it would extend compulsory education until the age of 18.


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Most of the kids go to free public school.


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Until the age of eleven, primary school is attended, followed by secondary school.


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Between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, study for the GCSE exam.


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After the age of sixteenth, a pupil can choose a sixth form college, finishing with an A-Level (Advanced Levels) exam in which two to five subjects are written, followed by aspiring to university.


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In Scotland, the names of the exams are Standards Grades and National Qualifications.


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The Northern Ireland system differs somewhat from the one described above.


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[67] Major Urban Areas In Britain there are 12 metropolitan areas with a population exceeding million: [68] Culture The United Kingdom is made up of four interconnected nations, and while the way of life is broadly similar, the culture has differences, both between these nations and at the local and regional level.


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The key issue for the Scottish National Party is the economy, not least the distribution of North Sea oil revenues, while the Welsh National Party is interested in preserving language and culture.


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Dialect and way of speaking often inform a person's background and homeland.


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Supporting your own football team has become a major point of pride for many.


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[21] Among the major tourist destinations in addition to major cities, historic sites such as Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, York and Bath.


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Famous natural attractions include the White Cliffs of Dover, the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and Loch Ness in Scotland.


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Well-known for its landscapes are the Welsh and Scottish mountain ranges, the English Lake District of the Lake District and the Peak District.


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[69] In addition to Christian holidays and New Year, Guy Fawkes night is celebrated 5.


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[70] There are numerous famous universities and colleges in the United Kingdom, the oldest of which are the universities of Cambridge and Oxford.


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Many world-renowned scholars have emerged in Britain, including Sir Isaac Newton, James Watt, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Charles Babbage, Alexander Fleming, Alan Turing, Tim Berners-Lee, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Hawking. [71].


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Literature British literature is among the most central to European culture.


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It has a long history and great cultural influence on the whole of Western literature.


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The first major English-language literary output was the Canterbury stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century.


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What makes the case remarkable is that the majority of court poets used Latin, the proxy language of that culture.


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[72] The most famous British figure of Elizabeth I's time was William Shakespeare, who is regarded as one of the most outstanding writers of all time and the most proficient English language.


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Shakespeare's literary production is extensive including plays, sonnets and poems.


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Particularly known he is precisely for his plays, the most famous of which are A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Othello [73] Novels began to be written in larger numbers starting in the 18th century.


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In the early 19th century, literature was dominated by the Romanticism era, when the poetry genre was influenced by William Blake, John Keats and Lord Byron.


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The Victorian era was a golden age of realism in English literature.


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It was represented by Jane Austen, Brontë's siblings (Charlotte, Emily and Anne), Charles Dickens, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy.


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[74] Of these, the works of Charles Dickens in particular are said to have a significant influence on British culture, including the refurbishment of the Christmas tradition in 19th-century England with the Christmas Story.


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With the First World War, the popularity of war literature and poetry rose.


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Romance literature soon developed into the most popular form of literature and it is today.


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Other illustrious British novel writers have included Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), J. R.


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R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings), Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), D. H. Lawrence, George Orwell (Animal Revolution, In 1984), Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Agatha Christie, Virginia Woolf and J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter).


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Among the poets to be mentioned are T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, John Milton, Alfred Tennyson, and Rudyard Kipling.


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[75] The Nobel Prize in Literature includes Rudyard Kipling in 1907, John Galsworthy in 1932, T. S. Eliot in 1948.


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Bertrand Russell 1950, Winston Churchill 1953, Elias Canetti 1981, William Golding 1983, V.


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S. Naipaul in 2001, Harold Pinter in 2005 and Doris Lessing in 2007.


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[76] Theatre British theatre has a long tradition since Shakespearean times.


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Today, London's West End is the centre of the theatre world.


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[77] Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has dominated the West End for many years, conquered Broadway as well and his musicals have been made into popular films.


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[78] The world-famous Royal Shakespeare Company is based in Shakespeare's hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon and also performs elsewhere.


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[79] Notable current playwrights include Alan Ayckbourn, John James Osborne, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Arnold Wesker.


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[80] Music Music is of central importance in Britain, where much significant and globally renowned pop music has been made.


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Britain is considered a superpower of Western popular music along with the United States.


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The most popular British band of all time is The Beatles which is also the most successful band in the world.


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More than one billion recordings have been sold worldwide from the band.


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[81] Other well-known and popular British bands since the 1960s have included The Rolling Stones, Queen, The Who, The Kinks and Cream, known for guitarist Eric Clapton, as well as Welsh Tom Jones.


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The world success achieved by these and many other British ensembles active in the 1960s has been referenced by the English term “the British Invasion”.


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[82] The UK has also come from Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, David Bowie, Dire Straits, The Police, Deep Purple, Sex Pistols, Genesis, Saxon, Phil Collins, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, George Michael, The Smiths, Judas Priest and many newer giant successes such as One Direction, Depeche Mode, The Wanted, Oasis, Radiohead, Spice Girls, Coldplay and Robbie Williams.


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[83] [84] Famous British composers include Henry Purcell, Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten and Andrew Lloyd Webber (among others, The Phantom of the Opera).


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Britain has many high-profile orchestras such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.


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London is one of the world's music centres, many important concert halls and the Royal Opera House, one of the most important opera houses in the world, are located there.


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[85] Film and Television In 2000, the British Film Institute invited a thousand experts to evaluate the best films of all time in the country.


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[86] The third man (1949), Short Luck (1945) and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) received the most votes.


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[87] Out of the 100 best films, Alec Guinness has nine, Michael Caine has seven and Julie Christie has six starring.


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David Lean directed six of them.


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[86] British-born Alfred Hitchcock and Charles Chaplin made much of their careers in the United States.


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[88] [89] The cornerstone of British television is the state-owned public broadcaster BBC, which has several channels in television and radio.


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BBC television channels are public service channels on which no adverts are aired.


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It also serves as a producer of television series and programs.


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The BBC's production is hugely extensive and comprises drama, comedy (britcom), documentaries and feature-length films.


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Familiar to Finns from the BBC include sitcoms Pokka Keeps, Monty Python's Flying Circus, detective series Miss Marple and New Sherlock.


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The BBC's repertoire also includes Doctor Who, the longest-running TV series of all time.


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The BBC also owns the rights to a number of big-class sporting events, including the Olympics, the European Football Championship and World Cup, and the F1 series (from 2008 to 2015, as of 2016, the rights are held by Channel 4).


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The BBC also represents Britain as a member of the European Broadcasting Corporation also in the Eurovision Song Contests.


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The BBC plays a significant role in the history of the development of television technology and radio communications.


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During World War II, it was one of the most important mass media in the world and its radio broadcasts were listened to across Europe.


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It also adopted, as the first European TV company, to introduce regular colour broadcasts on the BBC Two channel in 1967.


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There are several commercial channels operating in Britain, the largest of which (and at the same time the only ones covering the whole country) are the public-run but advertising-funded Channel 4 and the commercial ITV (former.


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Of these, ITV is the longer-lived and was once created as a consortium of several TV industry players to bring competition to the BBC.


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ITV now owns TV operators Granada Television and Yorkshire Television and has therefore grown by far to become Britain's second largest media company.


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ITV has broadcast many classics from British television on its channels, including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Bean and long-running drama series Emmerdale and A Matter of the Heart (Heartbeat).


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Channel 4 primarily airs American programmes aimed at young people and has developed an internationally renowned Big Brother format.


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Britain is also well known for its comedians, the most famous of which include John Cleese and the Monty Python humour group, Rowan Atkinson and Sacha Baron Cohen.


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Among the most-watched television series in Finland are several British series such as Emmerdale, Miss Marple, The Midsomer Murders and the BBC nature documentaries presented by Richard Attenborough, shown by Avara nature.


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[90] Visual Arts The oldest art objects found in the British Isles are Stone Age grave finds.


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Copper, tin were used in the Bronze Age, and in Wessex also gold.


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The Celts brought new art traditions, stone and wood were used alongside metals.


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In the reign of the Romans, statues, busts and tomb monuments began to be made.


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As new materials, they brought glass and mosaics.


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[91] The 19th century saw the development of a stylistic direction of painting called the English school for portraits and landscape paintings.


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Its top names included Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs and Thomas Gainsborough.


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In the late 18th and 19th century, British art was at its most radical, represented by William Blake, John Constable, William Hogarth and William Turner.


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[92] Above all, Turner's almost abstract landscapes later greatly influenced the development of Impressionism.


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[93] Beginning in the 1840s, British preraphaelites were influenced, who painted colourful and detailed paintings of often religious subjects.


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The Arts and Crafts movement, founded by William Morris, produced wallpaper and tiles typical of the Victorian era.


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[92] Children's books illustrated by Beatrix Potter have endeared from year to year.


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Notable British artists of the 20th century include Henry Moore, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon.


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[94] As a reaction to Abstract Expressionism, pop art emerged in the 1950s, represented by Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Blake, Allen Jones and David Hockney.


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In the late 1980s, the Young British Artists movement included Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.


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[92] The 2000s have also featured Mark Wallinger, Chris Ofili, Gilbert & George, Mike Nelson and Steve McQueen.


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[94] Since 1984, a British artist under the age of 50 has been awarded the Great Turner Prize.


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Major art institutions in the country include the Allied Artists Association, Royal College of Art, Royal Society of Arts, Royal Academy of Arts, Tate Britain and Tate Modern.


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Food The most famous manifestation of British food culture is the sturdy English breakfast.


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It often involves sausages, eggs boiled, fried or scrambled eggs, fried bacon, toast, champignons, fried tomatoes and beans.


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[95] Another important meal is fish and chips, which is deep-fried baked fish and french fries.


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Fish and chips dishes are sold in stalls similar to hot dogs as well as pubs with beer.


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At Sunday lunch, Brits have had the habit of eating roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for ages.


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On top of that, there are a number of popular regional dishes around the UK, including haggis (stuffed lamb's stomach) in Scotland and Welsh Rarebit (toast with plenty of egg and cheese) in Wales.


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[96] [97] Brits are very big lovers of tea and beer.


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Afternoon tea developed as a concept into British culture in the 1840s, and today one-fifth of the world's tea is consumed in Britain.


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[98] Tea is often served in cafes garnished with various side dishes.


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[99] Beer is Britain's national drink and is produced in the country by 1200 different brands.


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[98] Beer is also drunk from large colts, but the intention is not to get drunk.


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Young people drink mixes called soda wines quickly for the purpose of drunkenness.


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[100] Scotch whisky, meanwhile, is a major export product.


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[98] Social classes in Britain social classes play a greater role than ethnic background.


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Many define themselves as representatives of the working class or middle class.


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Few admit to belonging to the upper class, but that is usually defined by nobles who inherited land property.


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A working-class background is respectable but deprived.


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Education is low, housing is rented and wages are received weekly, typically for industrial jobs.


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The working class is associated with Labour and union values, but in real life class boundaries are not as straightforward as they are in speeches by critics of the class system and politicians.


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[21] Although the class system is considered old-school, for example, children's school performance is still strongly tied to social class.


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[101] Sport The most popular sport in Great Britain is football, and the sport has been developed in England.


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The English Football Association is the oldest football association in the world.


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England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have their own football national teams.


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In the FIFA rankings in January 2012, England were fifth, Scotland 48, Wales 49 and Northern Ireland 87.


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England have won a one-time world title at their home Games in 1966 and everyone else has played at least once in World Cup competitions.


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[102] [103] In addition to football, rugby and cricket, among others, are popular team sports in Great Britain.


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Their roots are in Britain, and both rugby league and rugby union are played in England, Scotland and Wales.


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[103] The most popular individual sports are swimming, snooker, tennis, athletics, motor racing, golf and boxing.


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[104] Notable British sporting events include the British Open golf tournament, the Wimbledon tennis tournament and the Royal Ascot gallop competition.


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[103] Wimbledon is the most important competition in the tennis world, having already been staged 125 times.


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[105] The first World Championship sectional race in motorsport was run at the Silverstone circuit in 1950, renamed Formula One.


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[106] Although in many sports England and Scotland have their own teams, for the Olympics Great Britain has participated with a joint team for every modern Olympic Games.


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Today it sends around 300 to the Summer Olympics, and 30—50 athletes to the Winter Olympics.