Theme 1 Key Dates

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Feb 1918
Representation of the People Act
1 of 27
Nov 1918
End of WW1
2 of 27
Oct 1922
Bonar Law becomes PM
3 of 27
May 1926
General Strike
4 of 27
1928
Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act
5 of 27
Oct 1929
Wall Street Crash
6 of 27
1934
Means Test introduced
7 of 27
June 1935
Stanley Baldwin becomes PM
8 of 27
1936
Abdication crisis
9 of 27
1937
Neville Chamberlain becomes PM
10 of 27
Sept 1939
Outbreak of WW2
11 of 27
May 1940
Churchill's wartime coalition government established
12 of 27
July 1945
Clement Attlee becomes PM (Labour landslide victory)
13 of 27
1946
Nationalisation begins
14 of 27
Oct 1951
Conservatives defeat Labour, Churchill becomes PM
15 of 27
1955
Anthony Eden becomes PM
16 of 27
Oct-Nov 1956
Suez crisis
17 of 27
Jan 1957
Harold Macmillan becomes PM
18 of 27
July 1957
Macmillan's 'Never had it so good' speech
19 of 27
1963
Profumo scandal
20 of 27
1963
Alec Douglas-Home becomes PM
21 of 27
Oct 1964
Harold Wilson becomes PM
22 of 27
June 1970
Edward Heath becomes PM
23 of 27
Jan-Mar 1974
3-day working week introduced
24 of 27
1976
James Callaghan becomes PM
25 of 27
1978-79
Winter of discontent
26 of 27
May 1979
Margaret Thatcher becomes PM
27 of 27

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Card 2

Front

End of WW1

Back

Nov 1918

Card 3

Front

Bonar Law becomes PM

Back

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Card 4

Front

General Strike

Back

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Card 5

Front

Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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