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| Question | Answer |
| 1939 | WW2 Starts Up to 50% of children evacuated |
| 1942 | American GI's in the UK |
| 1943 | 2 million women working in the Land Army |
| 1944 | D-DAY (British, American, Candaian invasion of Nazi occupied France) Large numbers of German and Italian POWs in the UK (also Poles) Education Act - education compulsory to 15, 11+ exams, turning point |
| 1945 | 80-90% of all women working in the war effort WW2 ends. Start of Cold War. Family Allowances Act |
| 1946 | National Insurance Act |
| 1947 | India is granted dependence by the UK |
| 1948 | Children Act Labour government creates the NHS Windrush arrives (Carribean immigrants) Nationality Act |
| 1950 | Oswald Mosley (ex-fascist) sets up anti-immigrant Union movements |
| 1951 | Women make up 30% of workforce of UK (26% of women are married) British Government campaigns for West Indian migrants (Enoch Powell) |
| 1954 | Food rationing in the UK finishes (UK is nearring the turning point for the economy + Marshall Aid) |
| 1955 | Bus workers of strike over immigrant labour 'You've never had it so good' - Harold Macmillan |
| 1956 | Suez Crisis - UK humiliated by Egyptian leader Nasser ('end of empire') |
| 1958 | Notting Hill riots TUC calls an end to immigration Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament founded - protest in Aldermaston against 'The Bomb' |
| 1960 | National Service in the armed services ends |
| 1961 | 'Lady Chatterley' trial - obscenity laws are overturned in the UK (beginning of a permissive society) |
| 1962 | The Commonwealth Immigrants Act - new voucher system to try and restrict unskilled immigrant labour |
| 1962 | 200,000 illegal abortions carried out in the UK |
| 1963 | Profumo Scandal (end of deference, beginning of satire, media are no longer part of 'The Establishment') |
| 1964 | BBC launches 'Top of the Pops' Labour win the election but try to restrict immigration |
| 1965 | Race Relations Act Birth of Comprehensive Schools - closure of Grammar schools, arrival of Polytechnics and Art Colleges |
| 1966 | Race Relations Board England win the world cup - a sense of 'cool' pervades; Twiggy, MODS, Carnaby st. Bily Butlin's Beauty Contest |
| 1967 | 'Summer of Love' - Rolling Stones 'free concert' in Hyde Park, LSD, hippies, flower power |
| 1968 | Abortion Act - end to 'back street' abortion Commonwealth Immigrants Act - further extension of voucher scheme but only for blacks 'Rivers of Blood' Speech - Enoch Powell Mai Lai Massacre > Anti-Vietnam War riot is Grovesnor square, London. Wilson resists pressure for Britain to join the war. |
| 1969 | 2 million UK women using the Pill on the NHS Divorce Reform Act - 100,000 divorces a year by 1970 (female liberty) Increased number of students in Higher Education (390,000) |
| 1970 | 'Women's Lib.' Feminist disruption of 'Miss World Pageant' at Albert Hall Cosmopolitan and Spare Rib magazines founded and 'Black Sabbath' releases 'Paranoid' album - youth culture gets darker and edgier Matrimonial Property Act (gender equality) Equal Pay Act |
| 1971 | Women now make up 38% of workforce (49% are married) |
| 1972 | Idi Amin expels Indian families from Uganda; British Government alows them to settle in the UK |
| 1973 | Oil Crisis |
| 1975 | Sex Discrimination Act (Equal Pay Act reinforced) |
| 1976 | Racial Equality Act - to ban racist literature, music |
| 1977 | Anti-Nazi League vs. NF - 'Battle of Lewisham' |
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