British re-armament before World War II

HMS Prince of Wales, ordered in 1936, as part of the re-armament programme.

British re-armament was a period in British history, between 1934 and 1939, when a substantial programme of re-arming the United Kingdom was undertaken. Re-armament was deemed necessary, because defence spending had gone down from £766 million in 1919–20, to £189 million in 1921–22, to £102 million in 1932.[1]

  1. ^ Paul Kennedy, The Realities behind Diplomacy. Fontana, 1981. p. 231.

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