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	United Kingdom - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		The United Kingdom and World War II Memories of World War I left Britons with an overwhelming desire to avoid another conflict, and the country played a leading role in the League of Nations and at inter-war disarmament conferences, such as those in Washington (1921-1922) and London (1930) which limited naval size.
		Post-war Germany was divided into occupation zones among the USSR, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, but efforts to reach agreement on a peace treaty with Germany broke down as it became clear that the USSR was converting all of eastern Europe into a Soviet sphere of influence.
		In the general election of 1964, however, the latter was narrowly defeated by the Labour Party, headed by Harold Wilson.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /text_761553483___27/United_Kingdom.html (14482 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 1935 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UK general election held on 14th November 1935 resulted in a large, though reduced, majority for the National Government now led by Stanley Baldwin.
		Labour, under what was internally regarded as the caretaker leadership of Clement Attlee, made large gains over their very poor position in the 1931 general election, but the Liberals lost further ground.
		The major election issues were the continuing unemployment problems and the role of the League of Nations, particularly as regarded Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_1935 (236 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 2005 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 and won by the Labour Party, led by Tony Blair.
		In Northern Ireland, the election was dominated in the unionist community by a battle between the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to be the region's largest unionist party in Parliament.
		Other elections in the province have shown both a shift in votes towards the DUP but also a collapse of support for the cross-community Alliance Party which is likely to be more marked in a first past the post election and thus which may work in the UUP's favour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (3092 words)

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		The Ontario general election of 1995 was held on June 8, 1995, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the pro...
		1918 election 1922 election The United Kingdom general election of 1918 polling was held on the 14th December...
		The Ontario general election of 1990 was held to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario,...
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	Federal Election Trivia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A Prime Minister may lose his or her seat in an election, but can remain in office as long as the party has sufficient support in the House of Commons to be able to govern, though again, he or she must, by custom, win a seat very promptly.
		In the general election of December 6, 1921, 4 women ran as candidates and only one was elected: Miss Agnes Campbell MacPhail became the first woman to sit in the House of Commons; she was elected as a Progressive.
		Until 1997, the minimum election period was 47 days, largely because of the requirement for a door-to-door enumeration to be conducted during the campaign.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/about/process/house/electionsTrivia/index.asp?Language=E&pv=1 (3843 words)

	About UK General Elections - UKSprite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		United Kingdom general elections are the times when the Members of Parliament forming the House of Commons are elected.
		Since the maximum term of a parliament is five years, the interval between successive general elections can exceed that period by no more than the combined length of the election campaign and time for the new parliament to assemble (typically five to eight weeks).
		Of the 16 general elections between 1945 and 2001, four have been in October, four in June, three in May and two in February.
	www.uksprite.com /portal/content/view/29/54 (339 words)

	United Kingdom - MSN Encarta
		After 1948 the United Kingdom took advantage of the Marshall Plan, a four-year economic recovery program designed by the United States to revitalize the economies of European countries by making low-cost loans available for reconstruction.
		(The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization of countries that was founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation.) As a member of the UN, Britain served as one of the countries that continued to occupy and rebuild Germany.
		Britain developed its own nuclear weapons and cooperated closely with the United States in a policy that relied on using the threat of nuclear attack to discourage aggression by potential enemies.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761553483_27/United_Kingdom.html (2462 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Canada - Elections to the House of Commons
		A description of the United Kingdom-style system used to elect members of the House of Commons - the lower house of Canada's Parliament - as well as a review of the Law Commission of Canada's report on electoral reform are presented here.
		In the ensuing January 23, 2006 general election, the Liberals were defeated by the Conservatives, who emerged as the largest party in the House of Commons, although well short of an absolute majority.
		As in the United Kingdom, the Crown is formally an integral part of Parliament, but the role of the monarch - since 1952, Queen Elizabeth II - and of her representative in Canada, the Governor General, is primarily ceremonial.
	electionresources.org /ca (2310 words)

	Next United Kingdom general election information - Search.com
		The previous election in the UK was the general election of 2005 held on 5 May, 2005.
		It is possible that it may be held on June 11, 2009 in order to coincide with elections to the European Parliament; combining elections dates is a common practice in the UK with the intention of reducing costs and increasing turnout.
		In England, the elections for County Councils are on a four-year cycle and are set for 2009.
	www.search.com /reference/Next_United_Kingdom_general_election (1449 words)

	United Kingdom general election, 2001 - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The UK general election, 2001 was held on 7 June 2001 and was dubbed "the quiet landslide" by the media.
		Throughout the election the Labour party had maintained a significant lead in the opinion polls and the result was deemed to be so certain that some bookmakers paid out for a Labour majority before the election day.
		The election had been expected in May, to coincide with local elections, but both were postponed because of rural movement restrictions imposed in response to a foot and mouth outbreak.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2001 (521 words)

	Encyklopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It was later bought by the Medici family in 1549: as the official residence of the ruling families of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, it was enlarged and enriched almost continually over the following three centuries.
		In the 19th century, the palazzo, by then a great treasure house, was used as a power base by Napoleon I, and later served for a brief period as the principal royal palace of the newly united Italy.
		In the early 20th century, the palazzo together with its contents was given to the Italian people by the King Victor Emmanuel III, subsequently its doors were opened to the public to serve as one of Florence's largest art galleries.
	encyclopedia.maksiu.info /wiki/United_Kingdom_general_election,_2005 (647 words)

	EVENTS 1936
		His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, notwithstanding the German repudiation of the Treaty, would regard themselves as in honor bound to come in the manner provided in the Treaty, to the assistance of the country attacked.
		General Miguel Cabenallas, one leader of the Spanish rebels, formed a provisional government at Burgos which later became known as the Nationalists.
		The United States refused to recognize the legality of the Spanish war zone unless the Government declared and maintained an effective blockade of such ports.
	www.ibiblio.org /pha/events/1936.html (8355 words)

	To hold or not to hold polls
		Mangaldoi was denied a by-election for almost two years at a stretch; then no polls were held in this constituency even when a general election was held.
		Elections must be held on the first Tuesday in November - unless Tuesday falls on the first of November, in which case it is on the second Tuesday - in every fourth year starting from 1788.
		Elections have been held on schedule in the US even in 1864 (in the middle of the US Civil War) and in 1944 (while World War II still raged).
	www.hvk.org /articles/0902/77.html (946 words)

	A History of Islam in Australia
		General Niazin Bey, who was responsible for an empire-wide security scare in 1915, was suspected of being involved in the establishing of such links.
		In a letter to General Pau and the French Mission visiting Adelaide in 1918 he presents himself as spokesperson for the Muslim community and separately identifies himself as representing the Ahmadia community.
		An official report presented to the Governor General in 1916 noted that the population of Broome stood at 2,700 of whom 2,200 were "Asiatics" principally Japanese and Malay.
	www.islamfortoday.com /australia03.htm (17503 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		In 1935, a short-lived attempt at colonization was begun on this island - as well as on nearby Howland Island - but was disrupted by World War II and thereafter abandoned.
		Democratic elections in 1974 and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy; Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992).
		Part of the Norwegian Kingdom of the Hebrides until the 13th century when it was ceded to Scotland, the isle came under the British crown in 1765.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	The Kingdom of Spain
		The party which won the majority of votes in the last election which was held on March 2004 was the Spanish Socialist Workers Party led by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero which meant that they held the majority of seats in the council of deputies meaning that they form the government of Spain.
		The Kingdom of Spain supports the involvement of the United Nations and views as a necessary force for the returning of Iraq into a stable democratic country.
		Spain believes that the United Nations should follow the proposals of the United Nations Special Adviser Lakhdar Brahimi including his proposals concerned with the creation of an Iraqi caretaker government and election that would be held in January 2005.
	www.fruithome.com /teams/modelun/pe04spas.html (3717 words)

	Chronology 1935
		The Croats formed a coalition with a new party of Serbian peasants during the elections and attracted approximately 40 percent of the total vote in the kingdom.
		As a result of negotiations by the United States and five South American governments, the Paraguayan and Bolivian governments agreed to a truce to end the fighting in the disputed Chaco region.
		General Kondylis induced the Greek parliament to vote in favor of a recall of King George II.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1935.htm (5393 words)

	When is a General Election held? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The decision to hold a general election is made by the Prime Minister who asks the Queen to dissolve Parliament.
		The election is held 17 working days after the date of the Proclamation and the issue of the writs.
		It is assumed that the general election will be held on a Thursday, though there is no statutory requirement for parliamentary elections to be held on that day.
	www.britainusa.com /faq/showfaq.asp?SID=403 (369 words)

	United Fruit Company - Chronology
		United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sends a protest note to Arbenz declaring that the idemnification value calculated by the Guatemalan government was not fair.
		United Fruit provides American school teachers with a package that included student lesson sheets on bananas and the Central American countries, a folder of banana recipes, a wall chart, a sound motion picture, a film-strip, and an eight-page teacher's manual on how to get and use these aids.
		United States drops the economic sanctions and the Europeans drop their first-come-first-served import system and replace it for a transitional system that will lead to a tariff-only system in 2006.
	www.unitedfruit.org /chron.htm (7780 words)

	Unit Did You Mean unit?
		Unit of measurement or physical unit, a fundamental quantity of measurement in science or engineering.
		Unit of action, a discrete piece of action (or beat) in a theatrical presentation.
		Unit (ring theory), an element that is invertible with respect to ring multiplication.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Unit.html (905 words)

	Bolivia on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Brazil are the chief trading partners.
		In the 1951 presidential elections Victor Paz Estenssoro, the MNR candidate, won a majority of the votes, but was prevented from taking office by a military junta.
		In 1956 the MNR candidate, Hernán Siles Zuazo won the presidential election, and in 1960 the MNR further consolidated its power with the reelection of Victor Paz Estenssoro.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/bolivia_history.asp (2792 words)

	Essay on the Government of India Act 1935 by David Steinberg
		It was generally recognized, that the provincial part of the Act' conferred a great deal of power and patronage to provincial politicians as long as both British officials and Indian politicians played by the rules.
		It was hoped that the gerrymandered federation, encompassing units of such hugely different sizes, sophistication and varying in forms of government from autocratic Princely States to democratic provinces, could provide the basis for a viable state.
		Had the Federation been established, the election of states’ representatives in the Federal Legislature would amount to a Congress coup from the inside.
	www.houseofdavid.ca /goi_1935.htm (4081 words)

	BALDWIN, Stanley @ Archontology.org: presidents, kings, prime ministers, biography, database
		Following the defeat of the Labour Government in the General Election, Baldwin was asked to form his second administration and became Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury on 4 Nov 1924.
		The General Election of 30 May 1929 over the issues of unemployment and the Trade Disputes Act made the balance of power dependent on the Liberals (Labour 287, Conservative 260, Liberal 59, others 9) and Baldwin resigned on 5 Jun 1929.
		At the 1935 election, which was fought mostly on domestic issues, Baldwin achieved a comfortable majority (Conservative 522, Labour 52, Liberal 36, others 5).
	www.archontology.org /nations/uk/bpm/baldwin.php (732 words)

	Billy Hughes Summary
		Labour was in an uproar as Hughes left for England, at the invitation of the United Kingdom War Cabinet, in January 1916.
		At the 1922 elections, Hughes switched from the rural seat of Bendigo to North Sydney, but the Country Party won enough seats in Parliament to be able to demand Hughes's resignation as their price for joining a Nationalist government.
		After the UAP nearly lost the 1940 federal election, Menzies was forced to resign by his colleagues, and in October 1941 Labor came to power under John Curtin.
	www.bookrags.com /Billy_Hughes (2325 words)

	Commanding Heights : United Kingdom Political \| on PBS
		A general election ends in a Conservative landslide that transforms the make-up of the coalition.
		He attempts to ban strikes and calls a general election over the question, "Who governs Britain?" But Labor wins the election, and Harold Wilson, prime minister for the second time, complies with the unions' demands.
		She begins a gradual limitation of the power of the trade unions that ends with a yearlong strike by the National Union of Mineworkers over the closure of 20 coal mines considered unproductive.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/uk/uk_political.html (1196 words)

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