Britain 1918-1997

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  • Period: to

    David Lloyd George

  • Limited number of women given the vote

    For the first time ever a limited number of women were given the vote

  • Flu Epidemic reaches Britain

  • WW1 ends

  • Foundation of Irish free state

  • Period: to

    Bonar Law

  • Irish civil war breaks out

  • General Strike 1926 (Info)

    In an 8 day strike called by the General Council of the Trades Union Congress in an unsuccessful attempt to force the British government to stop wage reductions 1.7 million workers particularly in transport and heavy industry striked.

  • BBC created

  • All women over 21 get the vote

  • Wall Street market crash

  • Economic crisis

    Millions in the UK are unemployed. A coalition government is formed

  • King Edward VIII abdicates

    The king abdicates over a relationship with an American divorcee.

  • Chamberlain meets with Hitler claiming he has averted a war.

  • The UK declares war on Germany

  • Dunkirk

  • Battle of Britain

  • Germany invades Poland

  • D-Day

  • UK joins UN security council

  • India gains independence

  • Post war immigration from the commonwealth begins

  • NHS formed

  • UK becomes a founding member of NATO

  • British troops join Korean War

    British troops arrive to assist the US in the Korean war

  • Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation

  • Clean air act is passed

  • Britain starts its first Nuclear Power plant

  • Ghana gains independence from Britain

  • Britain tests its first Hydrogen Bomb

  • Death Penalty is abolished

  • England win the WC

  • Abortion and homosexuality legalised

  • Concorde makes its first flight

  • Bloody Sunday with British army killing 14 in Derry

  • Britain is forced to withdraw money from the International Monetary Fund

  • Racial tension riots start in areas such as Brixton

  • Privatisation

  • Argentina invades the Falklands

  • 12 month miners strike over pit closures begins

  • World Wide Web launched

  • Channel tunnel opens

  • First female priests in the CofE

  • Britain hands Hong Kong back to China