Timeline Flashcards
WW1 + WW2
loss of hope and religion
1950s-70s
Britain invites immigrants to the country to fill labour jobs (The Windrush Generation)
1963
Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech
1964
segregation laws ended in USA
1965
Racial discrimination is made illegal by Harold Wilson in UK
1969
Stonewall riots (Gay rights)
1960s
Increase in contraception
1970s - New York
- Arson became a major problem in the 1970s in New York, rising from 1% of fires in the 1960s to 7%
- While towers grew, much of the city burned. Landlords couldn’t afford to maintain their buildings.
- The New York subway became jokingly known as the “muggers express”
1975
a film was made to prepare people for nuclear attacks
1977 New York
experienced a 25-hour citywide blackout that led to looting and arson
March 1979
Nuclear plant radiation leak
1970s - Public Information Broadcasts
- an increased awareness of the vulnerability of children.
- children in the 1970s had more freedom due to the liberalisation of the British education system
1981
First reported case of AIDS
1984-85
Deindustrialisation and miners’ strikes
1980s
- Second wave feminism
- Reaganism (rise in traditional Christian values)
1994-95
the OJ Simpson trial broadcasted 24/7
1997
First social media platform launched
2001
9/11 attack
2007
Perdue Pharma pays a huge penalty fine for deliberately misleading customers about the addictive nature of painkillers
2013
Same-sex marriage act passed in the UK
2016
Brexit vote
2020
BLM protests following the killing of George Floyd.
