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The making of Modern Britain 1951-2007
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Rebekah Mills
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Harold Wilson 1964-70
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Events
Family Allowances Act
Education Act 1944
Marshall Aid 1948
£750m budget deficit
India granted independence 1947
End of rationing 1954
Suez Crisis 1956
Notting Hill riots 1958
Night of the Long Knives 1962
Profumo Scandal 1963
First nuclear test, Monte Bello Islands 1952
1957: £1004m spent on durable goods
1960: £1465m spent on durable goods
1951: Interest rates increased from 2% to 4%
ROBOT Scheme 1952
1952: £300m Balance of payments surplus
1955: £300m loss in gold reserve
1955: Full employment
1955: Interest rates increased to 5.5%
NEDDY NICKY
1964: £800m balance of payments deficit
Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962
Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968
Race Relations Act 1965
Race Relations Act 1968
The 'Windrush' 1948
1958: 210,000 New Commonwealth migrants settled in Britain
1955: "NO IRISH NO BLACKS NO DOGS"
EFTA failure
1960: End of National Service
'Second colonial occupation'
Winds of Change- Macmillan 1960
Schuman Plan 1950
1957: Formation of the EEC
1957: Formation of EFTA
1964: The National Plan
1967: Devaluation
Burgess and Maclean
Korean War 1950
1965: Abolishment of Capital Punishment
1967: Legalisation of Abortion
1968: Theatres Act
1969: The Open University
1969: Divorce Reform Act
1967: Sexual Offences Act
'In Place of Strife' 1969
1966: 2nd EEC application and rejection
Withdrawal East of Suez
Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood 1968
1968: 12,000 African refugees in January and February
Immigration Act 1968
1969: £550m balance of payments surplus
Industrial Relations Act: 1971
1970: Barber becomes chancellor of the exchequer
Periods
Labour Austerity- Attlee 1945-51
Military commitments
Churchill 1951-5
Berlin blockade 1948-9
Eden 1955-7
Macmillan/'Supermac' 1959-63
Lord Home 1963-4
CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL DOMINANCE 1951-64
Consumerism per head set to rise by 20% 1950-59
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GO- 'Life is better under the Conservatives'
EEC Application
STAGFLATION
230,000+ New Commonwealth citizens migrated to the UK1960-62
Teddy Boys 1950s
Mods and Rockers 1964
BRITISH EMP
Rapid decolonisation 1956-64
Wilson 1964-70
Roy Jenkins' Liberalising reforms 1964-8
Vietnam War 1955-75
Heath 1970-4
Heath's U-turn
