Making Modern Britain
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Conservative Party wins the General electionUnemployment rate reached a millionBarber was forced to move to a deflationary budgetIntrodusction of Industrial relation act 1971Inflation began to riseFirst Miner's strike since 1926Miner strike stoppedThree day week strike1974 general electionOperation DemetriusBloody SundayThe Sunningdale AgreementLabour introduced the Social Contract.The Government turned to the International Monetary FundEnd of Special Category Status1975 Sex Discrimination ActImmigration ActEqual Pay act1976 race relations actThe Ecology PartyRoyal commission of Environmental PollutionWater (Control and Prevention of Pollution) ActBritain gets accepted to be a member of the EECBritain became apart of the EECReferendum ActDouglas-Home visted ChinaJames Callaghan wins the 1976 Labour leadership electionHarold Wilson becomes PMThe Government had to turn to devaluationThe National Union of Seamen (NUS) strikeIn Place of Strife began to be writtenThe Open University was establishedCivil Rights Movement BeginsMary Gould's murderPeter Ward's murderNICRA march through DerryO'Neill Five Point Reform ProgrammeO'Neil's Crossroads speechPeople's Democracy march through DerryNI general election 1969Battle of BogsideBritish troops were sent to NI1970 ElectionThe end of Capital PunishmentDivorce reformsLegalisation of abortionEEC was foundedEFTA was founded1979 electionThatcher became leader of Conservative leaderWestland AffairThe Social Democratic Party was founded1983 Electionthe 1987 electionBrighton Hotel BombingThe Anglo-Irish AgreementMonetarismDeregulationThe Big BangInflation peaked at 22%Unemployment rose to over 3 millionThe Scarman Report1980 Housing ActThatcher's key membersEmployment Act 1982Poll TaxThe Greenham WomenSection 28People's MarchFaith in the CityOxford against ThatcherThe Argentina's attacked the FalklandsAfghanistan invasionThatcher meets Mikhail GorbachevFirst Gulf WarSingle European ActLabour Leader electionLib-Lab pactDevolution act1951 election1955 election1959 electionNight of the Long KnivesProfumo AffairDouglas-Home takes over governmentFood Rationing endedBirth rate increasedBritain could buy more importsFull employment was reachedR.A.Butler Tax cutApril 1959 BudgetBeeching ReportTelevision ownership increasedMen's wages were increasingThe construction of the motorway systemHostility towards the establishmentLook Back in Anger was publised by the 'angry young men'.Women in work roseNotting Hill riotsCommonwealth immigrants BillViolent crime doubledMobs and Rockers riotsLady Chatterley's Lover was publishedBritain was vetoed from the EECSpecial relationship with the SuperpowersBritain's first atomic bomb testsBritain's tested the Hydrogen BombBlue Streak was discontinuedPolaris MissilesSuez CrisisKenya became independentSexual Offences BillThe development of comprehensive schoolsPolytechnics and University innovationsOpen University90% of the population had a television in their homesThe Sun was publishedTV accounted for 23% of leisure activitiesThe Theatres ActContraceptive PillClean Up TV CampaignThe Dangerous Drug Act 1967Battle of Grosvenor Square (Vietnam protest)Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968Rivers of Blood speechRace Relations Act 1968Wilson's involvement in the Vietnam WarSecond Application to the EECRhodesiaThatcher resigns as PM1992 electionImpact of Lawson BoomBritain joins ERMBlack WednesdayCash for questionsCitizen CharterDowning Street DeclarationThe Maastricht TreatyPeriods
the Winter of DiscontentThe end of the Post-War ConsensusThe SixtiesThe Affluent SocietyImpact of ThatcherismPrivatisationsMiner's Strike 1984-1985Falklands WarStop-Go economicsThe Korean WarWinds of changeWithdrawal from the 'East of Suez'Towards a new ConsensusUnemployment rose
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