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Modern History Flashcards

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1913 - what happened with Ireland

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Home Rule Bill - having a self governing state but be part of UK
Ireland resisted and the Easter Rising on 1916
1921 - peace treaty
1922 - Ireland became two country
Northern Ireland - Protestant
Rest of Ireland - Irish free state - became a Republic on 1949
Conflict in Northern Ireland referred as the Troubles

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BBC

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Started radio broadcast 1922

Regular TV service in 1936

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Graham Greene

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English writer
Catholic novels
Thrillers
The Man Within - Debut book
The Captain and the enemy - last book
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Evelyn Waugh

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English writer
Decline and Fall 
Handful of Dust
Brideshead Revisited
Sword of Honour
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John Maynard Keynes

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new theories of economics
Macroeconomics and economic policies of government
Keynesian Revolution

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Dunkirk spirit

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Evacuation of French and British soldiers from France

300000 men

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Battle of Britain

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Summer 1940
Spitfire and Hurricane
Victory over Germany

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Winston Churchill

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Conservative MP in 1900
Soldier and journalist
May 1940 - Prime Minister
Lost in GE 1945
Win in GE 1951

” I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

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Alexander Fleming

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1881-1955
Born in Scotland
Became a doctor and discovered penicillin
Nobel prize in 1945

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Clement Attlee

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1833-1967
Leader of Labour in 1945
introduced Beveridge Report
Barrister
Nationalisation of major industries
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NHS

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In 1948
Aneurin (Nye) Bevan, Minister of Health
Social Security

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Independence of colonies

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1947 - India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka

20yrs - Africa, Caribbean, Pacific

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Harold Macmillan

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1950s
Prime Minister
Wind of change - decolonisation and independence of Empire

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William Beveridge

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1879-1963
Lord Beveridge
British economist, social reformer
Liveral MP
Social insurance and allied service - 1942
Five Giant Evils of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness

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R A Butler

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1902-1982
Conservative MP in 1923
Education Act 1941 - free secondary education

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Dylan Thomas

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1914-1953
Welsh poet and author
Under Milk Wood
Do Not Go Gentle into that good night

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Who invented - Television

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John Logie Baird in 1920s

First TV broadcast from London to Glasgow

18
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Who invented - Radar

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Sir Bernard Lovell
Astronomy discovery
Jodrell Bank in Cheshire

19
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Who invented - Turing machine

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Alan Turing

Theoretical mathematical machine in 1930s

20
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Who invented - Insulin

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John MacLeod, Scottish

Co-inventor

21
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Who discovered the structure of DNA

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Francis Crick

Nobel Prize

22
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Who invented - Jet Engine

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Sir Frank Whittle

Bristish Royal Air Force Engineer

23
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Who invented - Hovercraft

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Sir Christopher Cockerell in 1950s

24
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Who invented - Harrier Jump jet

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vertical take off jet

25
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Who invented - ATM

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James Goodfellow

Barclays Bank Enfield

26
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Who invented - IVF

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Sir Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe

“Test tube baby” born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1978

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Who invented - Cloning

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Sir Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell in 1996

28
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Who invented - MRI

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Sir Peter Mansfield

29
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Who invented - WWW

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee in 25/12/1990

30
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Mary Peters

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Olympic Gold medalist - Pentathlon
Dame of British Empire
Team manager for Women’s olympic team

31
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Margaret Thatcher

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1925-2013
From Grantham in Lincolnshire
Elected as MP in 1959
Cabinet minister 1970 as Secretary of State for Education and Science
1975 - Leader of Conservative party
Conservative victory on 1979 and remained PM until 1990
Privatisation of nationalised industries and imposed legal control on trade union powers

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1982 Argentina

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Argentina invaded Falkland islands

Naval taskforce sent to recover the islands

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John Major

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PM after Thatcher

Northern Ireland peace process

34
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Northern Ireland conflict

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1972
Northern Ireland Parliament was suspended
Directly ruled by UK government

35
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Roald Dahl

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1916-1990
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents
served in RAAF during WW2
Became an author
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
George's Marvellous Medicine
36
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Labour Government in 90s

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Tony Blair wins the election in 1997

Scotting Parliament and Welsh Assembly introduced

37
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Northern Ireland Assembly

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Good Friday Agreement signed then Northern Ireland Assembly formed on 1998
Elected in 1999
Suspended in 2002
Reinstated in 2007

38
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Conflicts in Afganistan and Iraq

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Liberation of Kuwait
Iraqi invasion in 1990
Conflct in the Yugoslavia

UK fought with the International Security Assistance Force

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