post war years

POST-WAR years YEARS

• Social security: most urgent problem for people who fail to have enough to live on because they are unemployed, ill, too old or pregnant.

• 1945: Britain joins the United Nations
• 1949: Britain joins NATO

• Welfare State (1946-1948): services through which the central government and local authorities assumed the responsibility of the social well-being of citizens

BRITAIN AFTER WWII

• Clement Attlee: new Prime Minister

OCCUPATION OF THE SUEZ CANAL

IMMIGRATION

INDIAN INDEPENDENCE

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THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE

Matrimonial Property Act

Divorce Reform Act

Sexual Offences Act

National Health Service (Family Planning) Act

Abortion act

1967 was an annus mirabilis as regards sexual mores

• 1960->a step towards the freedom of the written word with the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
• 1961->The contraceptive pill appeared
• 1962->the Telstar satellite made world television news possible
• 1965->capital punishment for murder was suspended.
• 1966->Mary Quant was producing the miniskirt, which was set about 7 inches above the knee.

THE 1960s

In the 1970s England experienced:

• states of emergency five times;
• economic contraction;
• In 1973 the UK joined the European Economic Community;
• there was the Oil crisis.

1970s

1970s

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