5. Story of England: Modern Warfare
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Transatlantic Power Shift in the British Empire
The war accelerates a power shift that have been happening since the beginning of the 20th century in terms of the movement of strength and power across the Atlantic. Britain's key need is for economic resources that it can only obtain from the United States. And then there's another one that happens within the empire really from the ground up. That's about whether Britain is able to offer the concessions and involvement in self-determination that would be required fully to mobilise parts of its empire above all India. When Britain starts to make those concessions, it doesn't end up actually during the war being forced to hand anything over. But the very fact that it's made them means that the idea of post
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