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73 Cards in this Set
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1945 |
Clement Attlee's Labour party wins the election |
Attlee |
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1945 |
Family allowance act |
Not attlee |
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1944 |
Education act |
Butler act |
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1946 |
National insurance act national injuries act |
work stuff |
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1946 |
New towns act |
East Kilbride |
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1946-1949 |
nationalisation of coal, railways, BoE, iron and steel |
nationalisation |
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1948 |
national assisstance act |
help |
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1948 |
Marshall plan |
American help |
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1949 |
Housing act |
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1949 |
Britain co-founds NATO |
co-help |
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1948 |
Inauguration of the NHS by Bevan |
jewel of the UK |
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1948 |
Austerity & wage freeze |
eco slow down |
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1948 |
Empire Windrush |
West indies |
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1950-1953 |
Korean war |
Asia stuff |
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1951 |
Defence spending = 14% of GNP |
Defence spending |
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1951 |
Winston Churchill's tory gvnmt wins election |
tories |
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1952 |
Britain Nuclear Bomb |
A-bomb |
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1953 |
Queen coronation |
QUEEN |
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1953 |
privatisation of british iron and steel |
privatisation |
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1954 |
Mines and Quaries act (safety) Housing repairs and rents act |
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1954 |
end of food rationing |
Food |
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1955 |
Anthony Eden voted in and then wins election |
PM UK |
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1956 |
Suez Canal crisis |
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1957 |
Macmillan voted in as pm |
PM UK |
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1957 |
creation of the CND |
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1957 |
Rent act |
housing stuff |
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1958 |
Notting Hill race riots |
Racism and stuff |
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1960 |
creation of the EFTA |
Euro stuff |
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1962 |
Night of the long knives |
Cabinet reshuffle |
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1963 |
De Gaulle vetoes GB entry into the EU |
Euro |
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1963 |
Peerage act (women peers) |
not new PM |
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1963 |
Douglas-Home becomes PM tory |
PM UK |
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1964 |
Wilson becomes PM labour |
PM UK |
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1965 |
National eceomic plan (based on germany) |
Eco |
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1965 |
Race Relations act |
Racism and stuff |
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1965 |
Murder act abolition of Death penality |
murder |
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1967 |
Sexual offences Act legislation of homosexuals |
Pride |
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1967 |
abortion act |
Women stuff |
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1967 |
Devaluation of the £ |
eco stuff |
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1967 |
De Gaulle vetoes GB entry into the EU |
Eu |
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1968 |
Theatres act abolishes censorship |
Censor |
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1968 |
Operation Brutus refuse to pay debt end of pound as reserve currency closing of London Gold |
operation Brutus |
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1968 |
beginning of the Troubles (british civil rights mvmt) |
Race stuff |
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1969 |
Delpoyment of british troops in Northern Ireland |
Ireland |
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1970 |
Equal pay act |
EQUALITY |
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1970 |
Most EEC members have over taken Britain in terms of economy |
Euro stuff |
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1970 |
Heath wins election tory |
PM UK |
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1970 |
Discovery of first North Sea oil fields |
PETROL |
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1971 |
Industrial relations act |
Industrial stuff |
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1972 |
Bloody sunday |
Ireland |
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1972 |
Major Miners union strike |
miners |
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1972 |
Local government act, reduces power of smaller areas |
gvnmt act stuff |
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1973 |
GB joins the EEC |
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1973 |
Three day week |
Worker stuff |
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1974 |
Major NUM strike marks the end of Heath |
Strikes |
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1974 |
Return of Wilson as PM Labour |
PM UK |
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1974 |
Health and Safety Work Act |
industry acts |
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1975 |
Sex Discrimination & employement protection act |
EQUALITY |
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1976 |
Callaghan Creator of the Zebra Crossing Labour PM |
PM UK |
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1976 |
race relations act (for the workplace) |
Racism |
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1978 |
TU winter of discontent role in fall of Callaghan's gvnmt |
Trade Union |
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1979 |
Callaghan personally more popular than Thatcher during general election |
popularity |
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1979 |
Margaret Thatcher tory pm |
PM UK |
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1990 |
John major becomes PM Tory |
PM UK |
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1990 |
Britain entered the extrange rate mechanism |
Eurostuff |
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1991 |
Britain participates in the gulf war |
Uh oh war time tings |
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1992 |
Maastricht treaty |
Euro |
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1992 |
Black wendesday |
Bad tings |
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1992 |
loss of confidence in major |
politic ting |
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1993 |
Maastricht treaty ratified |
maastricht things |
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1994 |
Northern Ireland Peace treaty |
Ireland |
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1994-1997 |
privatisation of british rail |
privatisation |
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1997 |
worst tory defeat since 1832 and Tony Blair wins Labour |
PM UK |