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Key dates for history - thick text book.txt

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    • Overwhelming election victory for Labour
    • 1945
  2. Family Allowances Act
    1945
  3. National Insurance Act
    1946
  4. Industrial Injuries Act
    1946
  5. Nationalisation of coal, civil aviation, Cable and Wireless and Bank of England
    1946
  6. A severe winter intensified the governments austerity measures
    1946-1947
  7. Government undertook to develop Britain's independent nuclear deterrent
    1947
  8. Nationalisation of road transport and electricity services
    1947
  9. Independence of India
    1947
  10. NHS began
    1948
  11. National Assistance Act
    1948
  12. Britain began to receive Marshall Plan aid
    1948
  13. Nationalisation of iron and steel
    1949
  14. Government forced to devalue the pound
    1949
  15. Start of Korean War
    1950
  16. Election reduced Labour majority to 5 seats
    1950
  17. Bevanite rebellion over prescription charges
    1951
  18. Election success for Conservatives, but Labour gained highest popular vote yet
    1951
  19. Conservative election victory
    1951
  20. UK's first atomic bomb tested
    1952
  21. End of the Korean War
    1953
  22. Conservative election victory
    1955
  23. The Suez affair
    1956
  24. UK's first hydrogen bomb tested
    1957
  25. Homocide Act
    1957
  26. Rend Act
    1957
  27. Life peerages introduced
    1958
  28. Conservatives won general election
    1959
  29. UK a founding member of EFTA
    1959
  30. Macmillan's 'wind of change' speech
    1960
  31. Labour conference adopted unilateralism
    1960
  32. Commonwealth Immigration Act
    1962
  33. Cuban Missile crisis
    1962
  34. UK's application to join the EEC vetoed
    1963
  35. Profumo Affair
    1963
  36. Macmillan retired as Prime Minister
    1963
  37. Alec Douglas-Home led conservative government
    1963-1964
  38. Labour's election victory under Wilson
    1964
  39. National Plan introduced
    1964
  40. IMF loaned the UK 1 billion pounds
    1964
  41. Race Relations Act
    1965
  42. Election gave Labour an increased majority
    1966
  43. Prices and incomes freeze introduced
    1966
  44. Three month seamen's strike
    1966
  45. Appointment of Ombudsman
    1967
  46. Dockers' strike
    1967
  47. UK's second EEC membership application rejected
    1967
  48. Pound devalued
    1967
  49. Abortion Act
    1967
  50. Sexual Offences Act
    1967
  51. Immigration Act
    1968
  52. Race Relations Act
    1968
  53. Open University established
    1969
  54. 'In Place of Strife' introduced for discussion
    1969
  55. Death penalty abolished
    1969
  56. Heath became Prime Minister following Conservatives election victory
    1970
  57. Industrial Relations Act
    1971
  58. Local Government Act
    1972
  59. Miners' strikes
    1972
  60. Government pay freeze reintroduced
    1972
  61. UK formally joined the EEC
    1973
  62. A "state of emergency" led to three day working week
    1973
  63. Beginning of oil price crisis
    1973
  64. Miners went on strike again
    1974
  65. Heath government defeated in election
    1974
  66. Wilson became Prime Minister
    1974
  67. Referendum on EEC membership
    1975
  68. Callaghan succeeded Wilson as Prime Minister
    1976
  69. IMF crisis
    1976
  70. Lib-Lab pact
    1977
  71. Winter of discontent
    1978-1979
  72. Labour lost election
    1979
  73. Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister
    1979
  74. Monetarism adopted
    1980
  75. Riots in a number of cities
    1981
  76. Serious slump occurred
    1981
  77. Falklands War
    1982
  78. Mrs Thacther's second election victory
    1983
  79. Neil Kinnock became leader of Labour Party
    1983
  80. Miners' strike
    1984-1985
  81. IRA Brighton bombing
    1984
  82. Further riots in major cities
    1985
  83. Kinnock's ground-breaking speech at Labour Party Conference
    1985
  84. Westland affair
    1986
  85. Supply-side economics adopted
    1986
  86. Mrs Thatchers third election victory
    1987
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