Key Events

Question 1

What are the key events for 1951?

Answer 1

Conservative election victory (Churchill)

Question 2

What are the key events for 1952?

Answer 2

Mau Mau rebellion (revolt in Kenya against British colonial rule)

Question 3

What are the key events for 1954?

Answer 3

end of food rationing

Question 4

What are the key events for 1955?

Answer 4

Election victory for the conservatives (Eden)

Question 5

What are the key events for 1956?

Answer 5

• Suez crisis
• financial crisis caused by Suez

Question 6

What are the key events for 1957?

Answer 6

• formation of EEC
• Macmillan replaces Eden as PM

Question 7

What are the key events for 1958?

Answer 7

• Notting Hill riots (anti-immigration)
• formation of CND

Question 8

What are the key events for 1959?

Answer 8

Conservative election win

Question 9

What are the key events for 1960?

Answer 9

• end of national service
• creation of the EFTA as alternative for EEC
• Macmillan’s winds of change (decolonisation) speech

Question 10

What are the key events for 1961?

Answer 10

1st EEC application submitted

Question 11

What are the key events for 1962?

Answer 11

• Macmillan’s Night of the Long Knives (cabinet reshuffle)
• Commonwealth immigration Act (restriction)

Question 12

What are the key events for 1963?

Answer 12

• Profumo affair
• British EEC application blocked by France
• Macmillan resigns & Home becomes PM

Question 13

What are the key events for 1964?

Answer 13

• Labour election victory (Wilson)
• Start of Rhodesia crisis

Question 14

What are the key events for 1965?

Answer 14

Death penalty abolished

Question 15

What are the key events for 1966?

Answer 15

Labour election victory = increased majority

Question 16

What are the key events for 1967?

Answer 16

• Devaluation
• Liberalisation of laws for homosexuality and abortion
• Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood (anti-immigration) speech

Question 17

What are the key events for 1969?

Answer 17

start of the troubles in Northern Ireland

Question 18

What are the key events for 1970?

Answer 18

• Equal Opportunities Act passed
• Conservative election victory (Heath)

Question 19

What are the key events for 1971?

Answer 19

• reform of divorce laws
• decimalisation of the pound

Question 20

What are the key events for 1972?

Answer 20

• Bloody Sunday
• Unemployment reaches over one million (first time since 1930s)

Question 21

What are the key events for 1973?

Answer 21

• Yom Kippur war = oil crisis
• British accession into EEC
• Sunningdale Agreement

Question 22

What are the key events for 1974?

Answer 22

• 3 day work week imposed
• Labour victory in election
• collapse of Sunningdale Agreement

Question 23

What are the key events for 1975?

Answer 23

• Heath replaced by Thatcher as Conservative leader
• Sex Discrimination Act passed
• EEC referendum (result = yes)

Question 24

What are the key events for 1976?

Answer 24

• Wilson resigns = Callaghan as PM
• IMF loan requires cuts to public spending

Question 25

What are the key events for 1979?

Answer 25

• industrial unrest leads to winter of discontent
• devolution for Scotland and Wales rejected in referendums