Theme 1 Key Dates 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryModern Britain - 19th century onwardsA2/A-levelEdexcel Created by: darcyhutchinson22Created on: 08-04-19 14:00 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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