Thatcher Flashcards
(22 cards)
How many British Servicemen were KIA in the Falklands?
255
When was British Petroleum privatised?
1979
How many were unemployed by 1983?
3m
How much of Britain’s manufacturing base was lost over Thatcher’s tenure?
15%
What was unemployment in 1990?
Over 2m
What budgets dosed the economy with the effects of monetarism?
1980 and 1981
How much did prices fall between 1980 and 1983?
1980- 18%
1983- 4.5%
How many pits would close in 1984, alongside how many jobs were to be lost?
20 pits, 20k jobs
When were the Employment Acts under Thatcher?
1980 and 1982
When was the Trade Union Act?
1984
What was NUM membership in 1979 compared to 1987?
1979- 250k
1987- 100k
When was the Housing Act?
1980
When were university budget cuts under Thatcher’s tenure?
1981
When was the University Funding Council created?
1988
When did the IRA bomb the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton?
1984
When was the Westland Affair?
1986
When was the Local Government Finance Act?
1988
When did Lawson resign?
1989
When did Howe resign?
1990
What was inflation in 1989?
8.3%
What were interest rates in 1989?
15%
When were GCSE’s introduced?
1986
