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1951-64 key dates Flashcards

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Conservative Election victories

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1951, 1955 and 1959

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UK’s first atomic bomb is tested

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1952

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Korean war

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1950 - 1953

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suez affair

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1956

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UK’s first hydrogen bomb tested

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1957

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homicide act

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1957

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rent act

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1957

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life peerages introduced

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1958

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Britain becomes a founding member of the EFTA

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1959

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Macmillan’s ‘winds of change’ speech

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1960

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Labour party adopts unilateralism

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1960

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commonwealth immigration act

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1962

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Cuban missile crisis

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1962

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Britain’s application to join the EEC is vetoed by France

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1963

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profumo affair

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1963

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Macmillan retires

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1963

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Douglas Home becomes conservative prime minister

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1963

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Winston Churchill

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1951-55

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Anthony Eden

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1955-7

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Harold Macmillan

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1957-63

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Alec Douglas-Home

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1963-4

22
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Robbin’s Report

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1963

23
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Argyll Divorce Case

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1963

24
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Kim Philby Scandal

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1963

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Vassal Inquiry

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1963

26
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Treaty of Rome

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1957`

27
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Macmillan announces his intent to apply for the EEC

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1961

28
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the Economist coined teh phrase Butskellism

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1954

29
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Race Riots

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1958, ten years after Windrush (1948)

30
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when did Hugh Gaitskell become leader of the Labour party

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1955

31
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Gaitskell loses the vote and the party must adopt unilateralism - victory of the left

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1960 conference

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Gaitskell dies as party leader

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1963

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the Labour party rejects unilateralism

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1961

34
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Gaitskell follows Atlee in publicly declaring that Labour was against joining the EEC

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1962

35
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rationing ended

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1954

36
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Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne - ‘Elizabethan age’

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1952

37
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Britain gave independence to all the colonies in Africa and the majority of those elsewhere

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1957-68

38
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clashes between British forces and Kenyan nationalists

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1952-60

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Korean war

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1950-53

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