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 | 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. |
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| The creation of the United Kingdom brought England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales (the four cultural regions of Britain) under the rule of a central government headed by a common monarch and administered by a single parliament. |
| The general elections of 1997 gave the Labour Party the greatest landslide victory of the century and its largest-ever majority of 179 seats in the Parliament. |
| As the United Kingdom’s youngest prime minister since the 19th century, Blair seemed to speak for a new generation and a new Britain. |
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