Dates

• When did the WSC happen?

  October 1929
• When did the first hunger march begin?

  Autumn 1931
• When was the Special Areas Act introduced?

  1934
• When was the Treforest Industrial Estate established?

  June 1936
• When did the first wave of evacuation begin?

  1st September 1939
• When was the NHS finally introduced?

  5th July 1948
• What year did the Jarrow March happen?

  1936
• When was the Rhondda March organised?

  October 1936
• When did Hitler re-militarise the Rhineland?

  7th March 1936
• When did Germany leave the League of Nations?

  1933
• When did German battalions enter Austria?

  12th March 1938
• When was the Munich Agreement signed?


  1938
• By what year had Germany taken over the rest of Czechoslovakia?

  March 1939
• When did German troops enter Poland?


  1st September 1939
• When did Britain declare war on Germany, marking the start of WWII?

  3rd September 1939
• When did the Phoney War end?

  Spring 1940
• What dates saw the bombardment of Swansea?

  19th, 20th, 21st February 1941
• When were women aged 19-30 conscripted to work?

  December 1941
• When did Neville Chamberlain resign, the same day Winston Churchill replaced him?

  10th May 1940
• When did Ernest Bevin sign the Demobilisation plan?


  September 1944
• When was the Demobilisation plan put in place?

  18th June 1945
• When did Germany bomb Britain for the last time?

  Late March 1945
• When did the government commission Sir William Beveridge to look into ways Britain could be rebuilt after the war?

  1941
• When did William Beveridge publish the Beveridge Report?


  1942
• When did the BMA vote against joining the NHS?

  January 1948