post war years

POST-WAR years YEARS

BRITAIN AFTER WWII

• Clement Attlee: new Prime Minister

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

• 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

THE DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE

INDIAN INDEPENDENCE

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IMMIGRATION

OCCUPATION OF THE SUEZ CANAL

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THE 1960s

• 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.

Abortion act

National Health Service (Family Planning) Act

1967 was an annus mirabilis as regards sexual mores

Sexual Offences Act

Divorce Reform Act

Matrimonial Property Act

1970s

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.