1980's

1980's

1. CND (Campaign for nuclear disarmament)

2. Miner's strike - 13 months - 1984-1985

3. PM : Margaret Thatcher 1979-1987

   • First Female PM; Falklands war; sold council housing to tenants (right to buy); privatisation of many government-owned industries; decreased the power of trade unions; negotiation of the UK rebate toward the EC budget; Brighton hotel bombing; Sino- British joint declaration; Anglo-irish agreement; Westland affair; abolition of GLC; Section 28; the "poll tax" and the poll tax riots; lockerbie bombing; the end of the cold war