GrtBritain8



1. Liberalization 2. Forceful Foreign Policy 3. Fluctuating Economy
 * __3 Themes__**


 * __February 23, 1950__** ** Clement Attlee ** elected as Prime Minister for the Labor party (Political)


 * __August 29, 1950__** Britian enters ** Korean War ** and gives support to America (Political)


 * __October 23, 1951__** Conservative Prime Minister ** Winston Churchill ** elected (Political)


 * __May 26, 1955__** Conservatives win majority in general election and **Anthony Eden** becomes Prime Minister (Political)


 * __November 5, 1956__** Britain, along with France, ** invade Egypt ** after Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal (Political)


 * __January 9, 1957__** ** Harold Macmillan **, also a conservative, replaces Eden (Political)


 * __March 6, 1957__** Ghana becomes the first ** African Colony to gain independence ** (Political)


 * __October 8, 1959__** Conservatives win yet another general election and ** Macmillan ** returns as Prime Minister (Political)


 * __January 14, 1963__** De Gaulle and French Government veto British entry to ** Common Market **


 * __October 19, 1963__** Conservative **Alec Douglas-Home** becomes Prime Minister (Political)


 * __1964__** Supermarkets rise with abolition of **Resale Price Maintenance** (Economic)


 * __October 15 1964,__** ** Harold Wilson ** of the Labor Party elected as Prime Minister (Political)


 * __November 8, 1965__** ** Death penalty ** is abolished (Social)


 * __June 18, 1970__** Conservative ** Edward Heath ** elected Prime Minister (Political)


 * __August 19, 1971__** Britain's ** oil discovery ** in the North Sea is autioned off and gives their economy a big boost (Economic)

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 * __January 30, 1972__** British army open fire at a protesting crowd in ** Londonderry, Northern Ireland, ** and kill 14 and injure 17 on "Bloody


 * __January 1, 1973__** Britain joins the ** European Ecomonic Community ** (EEC) (Economic)


 * __March 16, 1976__** ** Harold Wilson ** resigns and is replaced by Labor Party's James Callaghan (Political)


 * __September, 1976__** Britain forced to borrow money from** IMF ** (International Monetary Fund) (Economic)


 * __May 3, 1979__** ** Margaret Thatcher **, a conservative, becomes Britain's first woman Prime Minister (Political)


 * __August 27, 1979__** ** IRA kills Lord Mountbatten **, the Queen's cousin and 18 others at Warrenpoint (Social)


 * __January 26, 1982__** High unemployment caused by ** economic recession ** (Economic)


 * __April 2, 1982__** ** Argentina ** enters Falkland Islands currently a British Territory (Political)


 * __October 12, 1984__** ** Bomb strike ** at conference in Brighton (Political)


 * __June 19, 1987__** Prime ** Minister Thatcher ** wins her third term (Political)


 * __March 31, 1990__** New ** adational tax ** starts cause poll tax riots in London (Economic)


 * __November 22, 1990__** Thatcher resigns **John Major** takes spot (Political)


 * __May 1, 1997__** **Tony Blair** becomes prime minister (Political)


 * __January 1, 1999__** Britain opts of using single currency. ** The euro ** was iniatiated and euro coins were put into effect in 2002 (Economic)


 * __March 2000__** The ** stock market ** encounters rough strech as the "doctum bubble" explodes (Economic)


 * __September 11, 2001__** Islamic highjackers crash planes into the ** twin tower ** buildings in New York. President Bush exclaimed there is a "world wide war" (Political)


 * __March 20, 2003__** Briatin and United States ** invade Iraq ** (Political)


 * __May 1, 2004__** A total of ten states enter the ** European union **- the addition made the European Union the largest trade union in the world (Economic)

**__July 6, 2005__** Live 8 concert across the world for AIDS fundraising (one location was in London) (Social)
 * __May 5, 2005__** **Tony Blair** wins third straight term as Prime Minister (Political)
 * __August 10, 2006__** Britain athorities announced that they found a plot to blow up a plane. Twenty one people were arrested and the supposed explosive was supposedly contained in water bottles (Political)
 * __February 20, 2007__** Tony Blair announces the withdrawl of 1,600 British troops from Iraq (Political)

__** 2012 **__ London to host **Olympics** (Social)