1929-1939 Churchill in the Wilderness

• 1932- Churchill and his party fell out
• Wall Street Crash 1929- Churchill lost all his money -> became an author and journalist
• 1930- he was in his 60s . His rhetoric method came across outdated . He was increasingly more radical
• Churchill supported rearmament . He correctly assumed that the Nazi‘s were further ahead than they claimed . After WW1, Britain was anti war
• 1925- his role as Chancellor of the Exchequer returned to the gold standard -> reversed benefits of post war US loans and reverted Britain to a state of self sufficiency and economic isolation
• Majority if politicians recognised that to resolve issues in India, negotiations needed to be held with Indian nationalists , Ghandi - Churchill didn't support
• Churchill supported the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 . He was marrying his twice-divorced American lover. Many opposed this
• Churchill believed that class divisions were necessary and the poor weren't equal to the aristocrats
• 1924- Churchill's political alliance shifted from Liberalism to Conservatism
• 1920s- political divisions shifted from Tories vs Liberals to Conservatives vs Socialists
• Churchill built personal friendship with Nazi enthusiast Ernst Hansfstaengel