1964-70 key dates

Question 1

Labour election victory, Wilson PM

Answer 1

1964

Question 2

national plan to modernise British economy

Answer 2

1964

Question 3

Labour increases its parliamentary majority in a second election

Answer 3

1966

Question 3

government is forced to devalue the pound

Answer 3

1967

Question 4

Race Relations Acts aim to reduce discrimination

Answer 4

1965 and 1968

Question 5

Abortion Act

Answer 5

1967

Question 6

Commonwealth Immigrants Act

Answer 6

1968

Question 7

Huge Vietnam War protest organised by the young in Grosvenor Square

Answer 7

1968

Question 8

‘in place of strife’ is published

Answer 8

1969

Question 9

Labour loses general election to the Conservatives

Answer 9

1970

Question 10

Wilson warns the trade unions and employers that they had to become more realistic in their approach to wage demands and settlements

Answer 10

as early as 1963

Question 11

when was the Prices and Income Board set up

Answer 11

1966

Question 12

a series of strikes occured, the most disruptive being the seamen’s and docker’s union strikes

Answer 12

1966-7

Question 13

Sexual Offences Act

Answer 13

1967

Question 14

Theatres Act

Answer 14

1968

Question 15

the Parliamentary Commissioner Act

Answer 15

1967

Question 16

abolition of the death penalty

Answer 16

1969

Question 17

divorce reform act

Answer 17

1969

Question 18

founding of the open university

Answer 18

1969

Question 19

Roy Jenkins as home secretary

Answer 19

1965-7

Question 20

Enoch Powell gave his famous ‘rivers of blood’ speech

Answer 20

1968

Question 21

temporary suspension of the death penalty

Answer 21

1965

Question 22

Heath’s Conservative election victory

Answer 22

1970

Question 23

when did labour end the tripartite system

Answer 23

in the 60’s and
70’s - completely by 1971

Question 24

second commonwealth Immigration act

Answer 24

1968

Question 25

end of East of Suez role

Answer 25

1967-71

Question 26

first deaths occur in the troubles during the season of Protestant marches in Ulster

Answer 26

summer of 1969

Question 27

Callaghan sends troops to Northern Ireland

Answer 27

August 1969

Question 28

Catholic civil rights demonstrations

Answer 28

1968

Question 29

NIRCA's second protest in Londonderry broken up by RUC - seen as the start of the troubles

Answer 29

October 1968

Question 30

The IRA split into the official IRA and provisional IRA

Answer 30

end of 1969