HIST 34414 Lecture 9: Session 9 Part 2
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British, which infuriated the churchill: main american base: Ireland left the commonwealth empire and would become the irish. Republic, thus cutting all ties with the british: south african contribution, vital during the second world war, particularly in getting supplies up and down africa, once italy was in the war and the germans took more interest in. Mediterranean, this area was a no good area for the british to try and conquer: british attack the french first in 1940, attacked the french mediterranean fleet, operation torch: *liverpool and bristol = important cities involved in the slave trade * * abolition of the slave trade came before the actual abolition of slavery * * when entering the cape colony, britain attempted to bring order, law, and honest & * crucial development = britain switching from a mercantilist system to a free trade economy * * government of australia act: began the process of granting new south wales self- government *
