UNSEEN DECADES Flashcards
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1940S
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- End of WW2-changing gender roles, housing crisis, rationing
- Indian independence and partition
- Labour Government and NHS
- Windrush Generation
- America as a global superpower
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1950S
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- McCarthyism and the ‘Red Scare’- spreading fear of domestic Communists within America
- Civil Rights movement 1955
- Return to trad gender roles
- Korean war (1950-53), cold war and Suez crisis (1956) violent uprising by Egyptians against the British
- Mental health treated with lobotomies, insulin shock, electro convulsive therapy, mental asylums
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1960s
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- Sexual revolution- invention of the pill in 1961 and Abortion Act legalised in 1967
- 2nd wave feminism - Equal Pay Act 1963 & hippie movement
- Space race & Vietnam war (1955-75)
- Profumo Affair 1961 led to a distrust in Tory politics
- Killings of political leaders- Malcolm X, Martin Luther King JR, J F Kennedy
- LGBTQ+ rights- decriminalised in 1967 in UK, Stonewall Uprising in US
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1970s
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1.mWatergate scandal (1972)- Nixon resignation
2. Ireland’s Bloody Sunday (1972)- part of the Troubles
3. Poor English economy and failed economic policies by Callaghan
4. Vietnam war ends 1975
5. 2nd wave feminism- Sex Discrimination Act and Pregnancy Discrimination Act 1975
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1980s
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- AIDS crisis- Section 28
- Thatcherism and free market policies ‘there is no such thing as society’
- Coalminer’s and steel strikes, two recessions and an increase in poverty
- Gandhi assassinated, President Reagan (no communists!) attempted assassination, Pope John Paul II attempted assassination
- Soviet-Afghan war
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1990s
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- Racial conflicts- South African apartheid, Bosnian war ethnic cleansing, 1992 LA riots, Rwandan genocide 1994, Gulf War and invasion of Kuwait
- Labour government- ‘Education, education, education’ Tony Blair
- Development of World Wide Web
- 3rd wave feminism- including women of colour, lower classes
- Religion- Islamic fundamentalism (Taliban in Afghanistan 1996) and Ireland has peace from Good Friday Agreement
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2000s
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- 9/11 attacks 2001- culture of islamophobia
- Hilary Clinton becomes the first female in the U.S senate
- Iraq war
- Gender Equality Duty of the Equality Act 2007 comes into effect UK
- Race Relations Act 2000
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2010s
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- Black Lives Matter movement starts in 2013
- MeToo and Times Up movement- 4th wave feminism
- Osama Bin Laden (founder of Al-Qaeda) killed in 2011
- Brexit
- Donald Trump presidency and 2 impeachments
