1951-64 key dates Flashcards
(39 cards)
1
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Conservative Election victories
A
1951, 1955 and 1959
2
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UK’s first atomic bomb is tested
A
1952
3
Q
Korean war
A
1950 - 1953
4
Q
suez affair
A
1956
5
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UK’s first hydrogen bomb tested
A
1957
6
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homicide act
A
1957
7
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rent act
A
1957
8
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life peerages introduced
A
1958
9
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Britain becomes a founding member of the EFTA
A
1959
10
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Macmillan’s ‘winds of change’ speech
A
1960
11
Q
Labour party adopts unilateralism
A
1960
12
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commonwealth immigration act
A
1962
13
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Cuban missile crisis
A
1962
14
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Britain’s application to join the EEC is vetoed by France
A
1963
15
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profumo affair
A
1963
16
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Macmillan retires
A
1963
17
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Douglas Home becomes conservative prime minister
A
1963
18
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Winston Churchill
A
1951-55
19
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Anthony Eden
A
1955-7
20
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Harold Macmillan
A
1957-63
21
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Alec Douglas-Home
A
1963-4
22
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Robbin’s Report
A
1963
23
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Argyll Divorce Case
A
1963
24
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Kim Philby Scandal
A
1963
25
Vassal Inquiry
1963
26
Treaty of Rome
1957`
27
Macmillan announces his intent to apply for the EEC
1961
28
the Economist coined teh phrase Butskellism
1954
29
Race Riots
1958, ten years after Windrush (1948)
30
when did Hugh Gaitskell become leader of the Labour party
1955
31
Gaitskell loses the vote and the party must adopt unilateralism - victory of the left
1960 conference
32
Gaitskell dies as party leader
1963
33
the Labour party rejects unilateralism
1961
34
Gaitskell follows Atlee in publicly declaring that Labour was against joining the EEC
1962
35
rationing ended
1954
36
Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne - 'Elizabethan age'
1952
37
Britain gave independence to all the colonies in Africa and the majority of those elsewhere
1957-68
38
clashes between British forces and Kenyan nationalists
1952-60
39
Korean war
1950-53
