Jake - Affluent Society key dates Flashcards

1
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First Conservative election victory

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1951

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2
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UK’s first atomic bomb tested

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1952

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3
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End of the Korean War

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1953

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4
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Second election of the period

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1955

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5
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Suez Affair

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1956

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6
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UK’s first hydrogen bomb tested

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1957

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7
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Homicide Act

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1957

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8
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Rent Act

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1957

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9
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Life peerages introduced

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1958

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10
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Race Riots

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1958-9

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11
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Third consecutive Conservative general election victory

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1959

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12
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Britain became a founding member of European Free Trade Association

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1959

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13
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Macmillan’s ‘wind of change speech’

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1960

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14
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Labour Party adopts unilateralism

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1960

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15
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Commonwealth Immigration Act

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1962

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16
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Cuban missile crisis

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1962

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17
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Britain’s application to join European Economic Commission vetoed by France

18
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Profumo affair

19
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Macmillan retired as PM

20
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Robbins Report

21
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Vassall inquiry

22
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Philby affair

23
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Argyll divorce

24
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Douglas-Home as PM

25
Built 300,000 homes annually
1951 - 1954
26
Denationalisation of iron and steel
1951
27
Eden's resignation for 'ill-health'
1957
28
Notting Hill riot
August 1958
29
Balance of payment deficit of £800m
1964
30
Macmillan's 'never had it so good speech'
July 1957
31
CND founded - campaign for nuclear disarmament
1958
32
Gaitskell beats Bevan to become Labour party leader
1955
32
Gaitskell shred Eden's attempts to justify Suez
1956
33
Bevan rejects unilateralism as an 'emotional spasm' at the Labour Party conference
1957
34
Unilateralism dropped at Labour Conference
1961
35
Gaitskell followed Attlee in publicly declaring that the Labour Party were against Britain's joining the EEC
1962
36
Gaitskell dies at the age of 57
1963
37
Britain detonates its first atomic bomb
1952
38
Treaty of Rome creates the European Economic Community
1957
39
Conservative government ends rationing
1954