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Growth of the British population

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50 Million in 1951 to 56 Million in 1975

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Group that formed to carry out direct action against fox hunting

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Hunt Saboteurs

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Book by Rachel Carson that made an impact on people’s view of environmentalism

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Silent Spring

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Radical envionmentalism groups

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  • Greenpeace
  • Amimal Liberation Front
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Progressive Acts that were met with media hostility

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  • Abolition of Capital Publishment
  • The Abortion Act
  • The Sexual Offences Act
  • Divorse Reform
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Term used to describe the decline of conventional moral standards

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Permissive Society

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Important moral campaigner

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Mary Whitehouse

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Group that the Mary Whitehouse set up

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National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association

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Number of members in the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association

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100,000

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Protests against the Vietnam War

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  • Vietnam Solidarity Campaign
  • Battle of Grosvenor Grove
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Amount of people that took part in the anti-Vietnam War demonstration in October 1968

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30,000 People

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Book by Betty Freidan

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Feminist Mystique

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Act that provided contraceptives to women for the first time

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National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967

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Name of Women liberation groups

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  • Women’s Nation Co-ordination Committee
  • National Women’s Liberation Conference
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Act that established the precedent that work of a wife should be taken into account during divorce settlements

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Matrimonial Property Act 1970

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Act that established the principle of equal pay for equal work

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Equal Pay Act 1970

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17
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Percentage of women in higher education

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28%

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Percentage of women that reached the top managerial posts

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5%

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What event that added to the controversy of the suspension of the Death Penalty

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Moors Murders - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

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What did the Divorse Reform Act add

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No fault divorce

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21
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Number of marriages that ended in divorce

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Nearly 10 in every 1,000

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Number of illegal abortions performed each year before the legalisation of abortion

Per Year

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100,000 to 200,000

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Number of women admited to hospital after backstreet abortions

Per Year

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35,000

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Number of women that died between 1958 and 1960 due to backstreet abortions

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82

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Pressure Group that had campaign for the legalisation of abortion

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Abortion Law Reform Association

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Event that is said to have shifted public opinion on abortion

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Thalidomide Disaster

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27
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Number of abortions after the Abortion Act

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17.6 per 100 in 1975 - 141,000

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Catholic MP that wrote an essay entitled ‘The Pope, the Pill and the People’

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Norman St John-Stevas

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Pressure Group was set to oppose any legalisation of abortion

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Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child

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Labour backbencher that propose the Sexual Offences Act 1967

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Leo Abse

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What did the Sexual Offences Act 1967 Decriminalise

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Homosexuality

32
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Act that made it unlawful to posses drugs such as cannabis and cocaine

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Dangerous Drugs Act 1967

33
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Increase of cocaine and heroin addiction

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Ten times more prevelant

34
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Lifestyle that emerged during this period

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Hippie lifestyle

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Suggestions of the Wootton Report of 1968

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Legalising soft drugs like canabis

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Lead supporter for the comprehensive system

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Anthony Crossland

37
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Number of pupils being educated in comprehensive schools in 1964

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1 in 3 pupils

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Name of the Report that Crossland published to convert to comprehensive schools

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Circular 10/65

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Number of authories by 1970 that had failed to comprehensivise

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8

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Number of comprehensive schools in 1970

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1,145

41
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Findings of the Robbins Report

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Found that Britain lagged behind France, Germany and the United States for work and science

42
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What replaced Colleges of Technology

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Polytechnics

43
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Number of students the Open University had in 1980

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70,000

44
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What was London capital of in the world

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Fashion

45
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Percetnage of the population that had a TV in their home in 1971

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91%

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New Media outlets that were launched

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  • ITV
  • BBC Radio One
  • The Sun
47
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Play that took advantage of the end of theatrical censorship

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Hair

48
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Percentage of journeys that cars accounted for by 1974

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77%

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Name of the airplane company founded in 1964

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Britannica Airways

50
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Percentage of people that went on package holidays in 1971

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8.4%

51
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Race Relations Act 1965

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Forbade discrimination in public places on the grounds of colour, race or ethnic origins

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Race Relations Act 1968

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This banned racial discrimination in housing, employment, insurance, and other services

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What event became an annual celebration of ethnic minorities

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Notting Hill Carnival

54
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Number of people that objected to working with black people or Asians

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1 in 5

55
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Number of people that disapproved of mixed marriages

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9 out of 10

56
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Board that was set up to deal with racial housing and employment complaints

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Race Relations Board

57
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Number of cases dismissed by the Race Relations Board

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734

58
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Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968

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Limiting the ‘right to return’ to Britain of non-white commonwealth citizens

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Names of racist groups

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  • National Front Socialist Movement
  • National Front
  • British National Party
60
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Speech that Enoch Powell gave

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Rivers of Blood

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Percentage of people that agreed with Powell’s speech

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75%

62
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Number of people that died in the Aberfan Disaster

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116 children and 28 adults

63
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Groups that striked during this period

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  • Seamen
  • Dockers
64
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White paper introduced by Barbra Castle

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In Place of Strife

65
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Rebellions against In Place of Strife

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  • Jack Jones - Head of the Transport and General Workers’ Union
  • James Callaghan
  • At least 50 Labour MPs

History Paper 2: Section 4 - Wilson I (7 decks)

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