Key Dates Flashcards

1
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Utopia by Thomas More

A

1516

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2
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the industrial revolution

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1760s - 1830s

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3
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Queen Victoria

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1830 - 1901

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4
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Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

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1848

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5
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Darwin’s Origins of Species

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1859

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6
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The Time Machine by H G Wells

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1895

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7
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Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’

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1899

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8
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Edward VII and George V

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Edward VII (1901 - 1910)

George V (1910 - 1936)

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9
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The Machine Stops by E M Forster

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1909

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10
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The Russian Revolution

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(1917 - 1922)

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11
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WW1

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1914 - 1918

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12
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Representation of the People Act (women first get the right to vote)

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1918

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13
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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

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1924

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14
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Representation of the People Act (all women over 21 get the right to vote)

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1928

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15
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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1932

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16
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The Great Depression

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1929 - late 1930s

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17
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Spanish Civil War

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1936 - 1939

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18
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WW2

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1939 - 1945

19
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Winston Churchill

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1940 - 1945

20
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Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell

A

1949

21
Q

invention of the internet

A

1950s

22
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Clement Atlee

A

1945 - 1951

23
Q

the Cold War

A

1947 - 1991

24
Q

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

A

1953

25
Q

the Vietnam War

A

1955 - 1975

26
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JFK assassination

A

1963

27
Q

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A

1962

28
Q

first man on the moon (Apollo 11)

A

1969

29
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Roe v Wade

A

1973

30
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first test tube baby

A

1978

31
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Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Percy

A

1976

32
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Margaret Thatcher

A

1979

33
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Ronald Reagan

A

1981

34
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fall of the Berlin Wall

A

1989

35
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The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

A

1985

36
Q

George Bush

A

2001

37
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9/11 terror attacks

A

2001

38
Q

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

A

2005

39
Q

The Children of Men by P D James

A

1992

40
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Bill Clinton

A

1993

41
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Dolly the Sheep cloned

A

1996

42
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Barack Obama

A

2009

43
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Black Mirror

A

2011