George V
George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from 1910 to 1936.
His reign spanned World War I, during which he changed the royal family's name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor to distance it from German ancestry.
He was the father of Edward VIII and George VI.
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- abdicationFormal surrender of power
- Edward VIIIKing who abdicated 1936
- successionFollowing in order
- House of WindsorBritish ruling dynasty since 1917
constitutional monarchy · interwar · Buckingham Palace · statecraft · patronage · philately · numismatics · courtier
Association of sovereign states
- dominionAuthority to rule
- protectorateGuarded semi-autonomous territory
- IndiaSouth Asian republic
- CanadaNorthern North American nation
Australia · colonies · Raj · viceroy · imperial · Delhi · crown colonies · South Africa
Elongated ground excavations
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield
- YpresFlemish city, wartime ruins
- GallipoliWWI Turkish peninsula campaign
Versailles · Western Front · shellshock · mustard gas · no-man's-land · U-boats · propaganda · rationing
Improvisational American music genre
- flappers1920s modern young women
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
radio · talkies · Irish independence · Roaring Twenties · automobiles · League of Nations · modernism · Baldwin
coronation
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- abdicationFormal surrender of power
- Edward VIIIKing who abdicated 1936
- successionFollowing in order
House of Windsor · constitutional monarchy · interwar · Buckingham Palace · statecraft · patronage · philately · numismatics · courtier · Queen Mary
Commonwealth
Association of sovereign states
- dominionAuthority to rule
- protectorateGuarded semi-autonomous territory
- IndiaSouth Asian republic
Canada · Australia · colonies · Raj · viceroy · imperial · Delhi · crown colonies · South Africa · New Zealand
trenches
Elongated ground excavations
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield
- YpresFlemish city, wartime ruins
Gallipoli · Versailles · Western Front · shellshock · mustard gas · no-man's-land · U-boats · propaganda · rationing · war bonds
jazz
Improvisational American music genre
- flappers1920s modern young women
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
Great Depression · radio · talkies · Irish independence · Roaring Twenties · automobiles · League of Nations · modernism · Baldwin · MacDonald
- Famous GeorgesGeorges Braque
- EdwardiansKing Edward VII, H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad
- George VIBertie, Duke of York, The King's Speech, stammering, speech therapy
- Prince of WalesCharles, William, Edward VII, Edward VIII, Frederick
- Victorian RoyaltyQueen Victoria, Prince Albert, Edward VII, Prince of Wales, Princess Royal
- Georgian KingsConstantine I
George VVladimir Lenin
First Soviet premier
Leon Trotsky · Karl Marx · Oliver Cromwell · Mahatma Gandhi · republicanism
- Boy GeorgeAndrogynous British pop vocalist
- George Washington
- George Jones
- George RR Martin
- George Orwell
- George Gershwin