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| | Great Britain -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Late in the 8th cent., and with increasing severity until the middle of the 9th cent., raiding Vikings (known in English history as Danes) harassed coastal England and finally, in 865, launched a full-scale invasion. |
 | | The basic domestic economic problem of the post-World War I years was the decline of Britain's traditional export industries, which made it more difficult for the country to pay for its imports of foods and raw materials. |
 | | The Conservative governments of Churchill and his successor, Anthony Eden (1955), were beset by numerous difficulties in foreign affairs, including the nationalization (1951) of British petroleum fields and refineries in Iran, the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya (1952-56), turmoil in Cyprus (1954-59), and the problem of apartheid in South Africa. |
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