Britain

Front 1

1945

Back 1

Clement Attlee's Labour party wins the election

Hint 1

Attlee

Front 2

1945

Back 2

Family allowance act

Hint 2

Not attlee

Front 3

1944

Back 3

Education act

Hint 3

Butler act

Front 4

1946

Back 4

National insurance act national injuries act

Hint 4

work stuff

Front 5

1946

Back 5

New towns act

Hint 5

East Kilbride

Front 6

1946-1949

Back 6

nationalisation of coal, railways, BoE, iron and steel

Hint 6

nationalisation

Front 7

1948

Back 7

national assisstance act

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help

Front 8

1948

Back 8

Marshall plan

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American help

Front 9

1949

Back 9

Housing act

Front 10

1949

Back 10

Britain co-founds NATO

Hint 10

co-help

Front 11

1948

Back 11

Inauguration of the NHS by Bevan

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jewel of the UK

Front 12

1948

Back 12

Austerity & wage freeze

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eco slow down

Front 13

1948

Back 13

Empire Windrush

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West indies

Front 14

1950-1953

Back 14

Korean war

Hint 14

Asia stuff

Front 15

1951

Back 15

Defence spending = 14% of GNP

Hint 15

Defence spending

Front 16

1951

Back 16

Winston Churchill's tory gvnmt wins election

Hint 16

tories

Front 17

1952

Back 17

Britain Nuclear Bomb

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A-bomb

Front 18

1953

Back 18

Queen coronation

Hint 18

QUEEN

Front 19

1953

Back 19

privatisation of british iron and steel

Hint 19

privatisation

Front 20

1954

Back 20

Mines and Quaries act (safety) Housing repairs and rents act

Front 21

1954

Back 21

end of food rationing

Hint 21

Food

Front 22

1955

Back 22

Anthony Eden voted in and then wins election

Hint 22

PM UK

Front 23

1956

Back 23

Suez Canal crisis

Front 24

1957

Back 24

Macmillan voted in as pm

Hint 24

PM UK

Front 25

1957

Back 25

creation of the CND

Front 26

1957

Back 26

Rent act

Hint 26

housing stuff

Front 27

1958

Back 27

Notting Hill race riots

Hint 27

Racism and stuff

Front 28

1960

Back 28

creation of the EFTA

Hint 28

Euro stuff

Front 29

1962

Back 29

Night of the long knives

Hint 29

Cabinet reshuffle

Front 30

1963

Back 30

De Gaulle vetoes GB entry into the EU

Hint 30

Euro

Front 31

1963

Back 31

Peerage act (women peers)

Hint 31

not new PM

Front 32

1963

Back 32

Douglas-Home becomes PM tory

Hint 32

PM UK

Front 33

1964

Back 33

Wilson becomes PM labour

Hint 33

PM UK

Front 34

1965

Back 34

National eceomic plan (based on germany)

Hint 34

Eco

Front 35

1965

Back 35

Race Relations act

Hint 35

Racism and stuff

Front 36

1965

Back 36

Murder act abolition of Death penality

Hint 36

murder

Front 37

1967

Back 37

Sexual offences Act legislation of homosexuals

Hint 37

Pride

Front 38

1967

Back 38

abortion act

Hint 38

Women stuff

Front 39

1967

Back 39

Devaluation of the £

Hint 39

eco stuff

Front 40

1967

Back 40

De Gaulle vetoes GB entry into the EU

Hint 40

Eu

Front 41

1968

Back 41

Theatres act abolishes censorship

Hint 41

Censor

Front 42

1968

Back 42

Operation Brutus refuse to pay debt end of pound as reserve currency closing of London Gold

Hint 42

operation Brutus

Front 43

1968

Back 43

beginning of the Troubles (british civil rights mvmt)

Hint 43

Race stuff

Front 44

1969

Back 44

Delpoyment of british troops in Northern Ireland

Hint 44

Ireland

Front 45

1970

Back 45

Equal pay act

Hint 45

EQUALITY

Front 46

1970

Back 46

Most EEC members have over taken Britain in terms of economy

Hint 46

Euro stuff

Front 47

1970

Back 47

Heath wins election tory

Hint 47

PM UK

Front 48

1970

Back 48

Discovery of first North Sea oil fields

Hint 48

PETROL

Front 49

1971

Back 49

Industrial relations act

Hint 49

Industrial stuff

Front 50

1972

Back 50

Bloody sunday

Hint 50

Ireland

Front 51

1972

Back 51

Major Miners union strike

Hint 51

miners

Front 52

1972

Back 52

Local government act, reduces power of smaller areas

Hint 52

gvnmt act stuff

Front 53

1973

Back 53

GB joins the EEC

Front 54

1973

Back 54

Three day week

Hint 54

Worker stuff

Front 55

1974

Back 55

Major NUM strike marks the end of Heath

Hint 55

Strikes

Front 56

1974

Back 56

Return of Wilson as PM Labour

Hint 56

PM UK

Front 57

1974

Back 57

Health and Safety Work Act

Hint 57

industry acts

Front 58

1975

Back 58

Sex Discrimination & employement protection act

Hint 58

EQUALITY

Front 59

1976

Back 59

Callaghan Creator of the Zebra Crossing Labour PM

Hint 59

PM UK

Front 60

1976

Back 60

race relations act (for the workplace)

Hint 60

Racism

Front 61

1978

Back 61

TU winter of discontent role in fall of Callaghan's gvnmt

Hint 61

Trade Union

Front 62

1979

Back 62

Callaghan personally more popular than Thatcher during general election

Hint 62

popularity

Front 63

1979

Back 63

Margaret Thatcher tory pm

Hint 63

PM UK

Front 64

1990

Back 64

John major becomes PM Tory

Hint 64

PM UK

Front 65

1990

Back 65

Britain entered the extrange rate mechanism

Hint 65

Eurostuff

Front 66

1991

Back 66

Britain participates in the gulf war

Hint 66

Uh oh war time tings

Front 67

1992

Back 67

Maastricht treaty

Hint 67

Euro

Front 68

1992

Back 68

Black wendesday

Hint 68

Bad tings

Front 69

1992

Back 69

loss of confidence in major

Hint 69

politic ting

Front 70

1993

Back 70

Maastricht treaty ratified

Hint 70

maastricht things

Front 71

1994

Back 71

Northern Ireland Peace treaty

Hint 71

Ireland

Front 72

1994-1997

Back 72

privatisation of british rail

Hint 72

privatisation

Front 73

1997

Back 73

worst tory defeat since 1832 and Tony Blair wins Labour

Hint 73

PM UK