Key Events Flashcards
(25 cards)
What are the key events for 1951?
Conservative election victory (Churchill)
What are the key events for 1952?
Mau Mau rebellion (revolt in Kenya against British colonial rule)
What are the key events for 1954?
end of food rationing
What are the key events for 1955?
Election victory for the conservatives (Eden)
What are the key events for 1956?
- Suez crisis
- financial crisis caused by Suez
What are the key events for 1957?
- formation of EEC
- Macmillan replaces Eden as PM
What are the key events for 1958?
- Notting Hill riots (anti-immigration)
- formation of CND
What are the key events for 1959?
Conservative election win
What are the key events for 1960?
- end of national service
- creation of the EFTA as alternative for EEC
- Macmillan’s winds of change (decolonisation) speech
What are the key events for 1961?
1st EEC application submitted
What are the key events for 1962?
- Macmillan’s Night of the Long Knives (cabinet reshuffle)
- Commonwealth immigration Act (restriction)
What are the key events for 1963?
- Profumo affair
- British EEC application blocked by France
- Macmillan resigns & Home becomes PM
What are the key events for 1964?
- Labour election victory (Wilson)
- Start of Rhodesia crisis
What are the key events for 1965?
Death penalty abolished
What are the key events for 1966?
Labour election victory = increased majority
What are the key events for 1967?
- Devaluation
- Liberalisation of laws for homosexuality and abortion
- Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood (anti-immigration) speech
What are the key events for 1969?
start of the troubles in Northern Ireland
What are the key events for 1970?
- Equal Opportunities Act passed
- Conservative election victory (Heath)
What are the key events for 1971?
- reform of divorce laws
- decimalisation of the pound
What are the key events for 1972?
- Bloody Sunday
- Unemployment reaches over one million (first time since 1930s)
What are the key events for 1973?
- Yom Kippur war = oil crisis
- British accession into EEC
- Sunningdale Agreement
What are the key events for 1974?
- 3 day work week imposed
- Labour victory in election
- collapse of Sunningdale Agreement
What are the key events for 1975?
- Heath replaced by Thatcher as Conservative leader
- Sex Discrimination Act passed
- EEC referendum (result = yes)
What are the key events for 1976?
- Wilson resigns = Callaghan as PM
- IMF loan requires cuts to public spending