Jake - Affluent Society key dates Flashcards
First Conservative election victory
1951
UK’s first atomic bomb tested
1952
End of the Korean War
1953
Second election of the period
1955
Suez Affair
1956
UK’s first hydrogen bomb tested
1957
Homicide Act
1957
Rent Act
1957
Life peerages introduced
1958
Race Riots
1958-9
Third consecutive Conservative general election victory
1959
Britain became a founding member of European Free Trade Association
1959
Macmillan’s ‘wind of change speech’
1960
Labour Party adopts unilateralism
1960
Commonwealth Immigration Act
1962
Cuban missile crisis
1962
Britain’s application to join European Economic Commission vetoed by France
1963
Profumo affair
1963
Macmillan retired as PM
1963
Robbins Report
1963
Vassall inquiry
1963
Philby affair
1963
Argyll divorce
1963
Douglas-Home as PM
1963-4