Why did violence break out in Northern Ireland in 1968?

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Q1.Why did violence break out in Northern Ireland in 1968?

Violence in Northern Ireland broke out n 1968 because the events before contributed to this.

Around 1920, most of the population lived normal lives but Protestants and Catholics were segregated, but soon after, many Catholics rejected the state of Northern Ireland, there was lots of discrimination against Catholics in areas such as politics and unemployment, where many Catholics were discriminated against by not getting well pad jobs and given poor housing.

Since 1900, Ireland was close to civil war but a lot of Irish people went off to World War I so the risk of civil war was reduced, many people, both Catholic and Protestant went to fight.

In 1922 an Anglo-Irish treaty was created, there was peace between Ireland and England for a while, but not for long.

In the 1930s there was world wide economic depression, Catholics and Protestants suffered greatly, they became even more violent towards each other.

Between 1934 and 1937 there was big unemployment in Northern Ireland, most of the jobs were took by Protestants, people would fight over jobs and a