Unseen Prose context Flashcards
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40’s big moments
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- 1940 start of battle of Britain, patriotism.
- 1945 end of WW2, hitler remind ppl danger of seeking power for themselves
- 1945 US drops atomic bomb of japan
- end of the British empire
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50’s big moments
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- baby boom
- 1955 US-Vietnam war. hippie movement and younger gen demonstrated against it
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60’s big moments
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left wing politics attracted middle class students
- sexual revolution, civil rights and LGBT movements
- 1963 the profumo affair undermined the public’s trust in politicians
- 1967 abortion and homosexuality legalised
- 1968 the N.ireland troubles (demonstrating about injustice, violent)
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70’s big moments
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- 1970 gay rights movement gains popularity
- 1972 bloody Sunday, n. Ireland
- battle of the sexes televised tennis match, woman won
- 1978 louise brown is first test tube baby, unconventional creation
- 1978 camp david accord signed, peace in the middle east
- 1979 britiain’s first female prime minister thatcher
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80’s big moments TAHREEN
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90’s big moments
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2000’s big moments
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2010’s big moments TAHREEN
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40’s political changes
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- 1948 labour gov. socialist ideas, less rigid class system
- industrialisation and capitalism thrived in USA, lifted them out of the depression (superpower)
- war created US patriotism
- fear of communism (at odds with US democracy/region)
- cold war, nuclear threat, tension
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50’s political changes
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- civil rights movements begun by children of WW2, estranged
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60’s political changes
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- the teenager, youth culture, didn’t accept their conventional roles set by society,
- rebellion against the disregard for political and social issues, soldiers wanted a society run by ethical principles not capitalism/materialism
- 1968 dagenham protest for equal pay
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70’s political changes
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- women more involved in politics, protest traditional roles of housewife/mother
- 1970 12m women on the pill in the US
- feminism more influential, more jobs available to women in 60’s
- equal pay act of 1970
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80’s political changes
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- thatcher wanted to destory power of trade reunions, coalminers strikes in 1984/5
- war in the falklands US vs Argentina
- antiwar demonstrators (yuppies) brutally attacked by police
- 1983 AIDS considered a “gay plague”
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90’s political changes
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- massive improvements in education under labour’s blair. wanted to make teaching the “most prestigious profession”
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2000’s political changes
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- US invaded afghanistan after 9/11 attacks in 2001,
- bush used the fear of Weapons of Mass Destruction and terrorism as reasoning to invade iraq in 2003
