britain dates Flashcards
ramsay macdonald
labour 1929-35
stanley baldwin
1935-37
chamberlain
1937-40
churchill 1
1940-45
clement atlee
1945-51
churchill 2
1951-55
anthony eden
1955-57
harold macmillan
1957-63
alec douglas home
1963-64
harold wilson 1
1964-70
ted heath
1970-74
harold wilson 2
1974-76
Jim callaghan
1976-79
Margaret thatcher
1979-90
John major
1990-97
Gov act india
1932
rationing ended
1954
abdication crisis
1936
3000 troops into rhineland
1936
munich meeting
1938
czechslovakia
1939
invasion of poland
1939
Norway and denmark
1940
defeat of french
1940
dunkirk
1940
battle of britain
1940
North africa campaign
1941
Lend lease act
1941
atlantic charter
1941
pearl harbour
1941
us joins war
1941
barborossa
1941
el alamein
1941
operation torch
1942
tehran
1943
Dday
1944
operation market garden
1944
bombing of dresden
1945
yalta
1945
cold war
1947-1991
korean war
1950-53
vietnam war
1955-75
indian independence
1947
iron curtain
1946
NHS founded
1948
suez crisis
1956
rent act
1957
homicide act
1957
balance of payments deficit starts
1961
night of long knives
1962
scandals
1963
1964 balance of payments deficit
£800,000 mil
cons dom- wage increase
£8.30-£18.35
cond dom- % in world trade
25%-15%
homes built in 1951
354,000
equality act
1967
sexual offences act
1967
race relations
1965 + 1968
industrial relations act
1971
Inflation% under heath
33%
days lost to strike 1970
10.2 mil
days lost to strike 1974
14.7 mil
joined EEC
1973
end of fixed exchange rates- nixon
1971
social contract
1973
IMF
1976
lib lab pact
1976-78
lost majority
1977
winter discontent
1978-79
vote of no confidence
1979
in place of strife
1969
devaluation
1967
£2.80-£2.40
black wednesday
1967
oil crisis
1973
majority increase
1966
4 to 96
enoch powell- rivers of blood
1968
900,000 labour votes lost
1966-70
labour membership fell 150,000
1966-70
balance of payments in 1970
£31 mil
miners strike
1972
release doc workers
1972