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Acts of Union: England and Wales

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1540~

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Acts of Union: England and Scotland

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1707

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Acts of Union: England and Scotland share monarch

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1603

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Acts of Union: Great Britain + Ireland

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1801 (U.K. of G.B.)

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Southern Ireland leaves, becomes independent

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1921

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Act of Supremacy in 1558

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King Henry 8th declared himself head of Church of England

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Book of Common Prayer

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number of prayer books of CoE and other Anglican churches

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Thomas Cramner

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leader of English Reformation

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regicide

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killing the king

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life peers

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title that is not inheritable

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hereditary peers

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people with ‘royal blood’, title is inherited

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consort

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spouse of royalty, usually not in line for throne

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Lady Jane Grey

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occupied the English throne for nine days

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Henry 8ths wives:

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Catherine, Anne, Jane etc.

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Maastricht Treaty in 1992

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changed the European Community to European Union

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Clause 4

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nationalization of industries

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Magna Carta

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first document forced onto an English King by a group of subjects (barons) in an attempt to limit the king’s power by law

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Laissez-faire

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transactions between private parties are free from state intervention

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The Butler Act

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law prohibiting school teachers to deny Biblical account of man’s origin, prevented the evolutionary theory taught

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Beveridge Report

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influential document in the founding of the welfare state

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Great Plague

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massive outbreak of disease in UK that killed 20% of London’s population

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Great Fire of London

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swept through the central parts of the city, lasted for 5 days

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The Glorious Revolution

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overthrow of King James II by union of Parliamentarians, William of Orange succeeded the throne as first constitutional monarch

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Pax Britannica

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Period of relative peace in Europe when the British Empire was at its peak, had control of key naval trade routes, unchallenged sea power

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The Great Depression
the decade post-WWII, crash of the stock market on Wall Street
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Treaty of Versailles
one of the peace treaties at the end of WWI
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Act of Settlement
specified that monarchs must be protestant
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Bill of Rights
passed by Parliament to William and Mary inviting them to become joint sovereigns of Enland
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the Boer Wars
two wars fought between UK and two independent Boer republics (Orange Free State and South African Republic)
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Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of Jacobite Rising
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Hundred Years' War
series of separate wars lasting for a hundred years between two royal houses for the French throne. Henry the 8th sold France to Calim
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New Amsterdam
Dutch colonial settlement, later became New York City
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Entente cordiale
series of agreements signed between the UK and the French Republic
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Easter Rising
aimed to end British rule in Ireland
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North-South divide
refers to economical and cultural differences b. Southern and Northern England
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cenotaph
list with names of soldiers who died in WWI
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Mercantilism
economic theory, export as much as you can
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The Bismarck
most famous German warship in WWII
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Good Friday/Belfast Agreement
political development in N-Ireland peace process
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sympathy strikes
industrial action made by a trade union in support of a strike initiated by workers
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Schengen Agreement
led to the creation of Europe's borderless Schengen Area
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Post-war consensus
time b. WWII and Thatcher's election as PM
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Clement Attlee
PM from 1945-1951, Leader of the Labour Party from 1935-1955
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M. Thatcher
PM from 1979-1990, first female in office, served longer than any other
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T. Blair
PM from 1997-2007, threw out Clause 4
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G. Brown
2007-2010
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D. Cameron
Current PM
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Thatcherism
the government should be doing little, let it run itself
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Arthur Scargill
miners' strike for a year
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Blair's Third Way
refers to various political positions which try to reconcile right wing and left win politics
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T. May
Conservative politician, current Home Secretary
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National Health Service
many things for free
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A. Smith
Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economics
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Franchise
the right to vote
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Privy council
has 400 members who only meet when a monarch dies, to confirm his death
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Chancellor of the Exchequer
minister of Finance
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Hung parliament
occurs when neither major political party has absolute majority of seats in the parliament
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appeasement
diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power
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autocratic
person(e.g. monarch) ruling with unlimited authority
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Sinn Féin
political party in Ireland, Gerry Adams is the president
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Backbencher
newly elected parliamentary member
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''shadow cabinet''
parliamentary member specialized in finance, health, if a party loses
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Civil list
list of individuals to whom money is paid by the government
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J. Callaghan
once PM and Leader of Labour Party
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The Falkland Islands
self-governing British overseas territory, the Brits won the war
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Aneurin Bevan
Welsh Labour Party politician, early 20th c., rights of the working people
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Deregulation
removal or simplification of government rules and regulations that constrain market forces
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Winter of Discontent
winter that saw many strikes, e.g. grave diggers, truck drivers, rubbish collectors
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O. Cromwell
military and political leader, involved in turning England into a republican Commonwealth, Lord Protector (1653-1658)
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Commonwealth
alliance of Britain's former colonies+free trade association
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A. Toffler
American, wrote ''The Third Wave''
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John Locke
'Father of Liberalism' English philosopher and physician, Enlightenment thinker
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7/7 terrorism
series of coordinated suicide attacks in London
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Democratic Unionist Party
larger unionist party in N-Ireland
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Rev. Ian Paisley
founded the Democratic Unionist Party
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''permanent underclass'' (2011 riots)
lowest possible position in class hierarchy
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The Ghost of Britain past
the time when GB was an empire
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Nick Clegg
deputy PM, Chairman of liberal democratic party
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credit crunch
economic crisis, G. Brown was blamed
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national referendum
entire electorate is asked to accept or reject a particular proposal
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Fabian socialists
association of British socialists advocation the establishment of democratic socialism by gradual reforms within the law

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