Britain after Two World Wars There was a country once called “the empire on which the sun never sets”‚ and it used to be the most powerful countries in the world. It’s the Britain. Britain plays an extremely important role of the world in the modern history. It used to take the lead carrying out Bourgeois Revolution and have the original Industrial Revolution. After two world wars‚ especially the World War II‚ this old-fashion empire gradually goes downhill. Finally and eventually‚ it has
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the start of the 1980s Britain was in a deep recession similar to what is happening at present and there was also mass unemployment. The person in charge of the country at this time was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who was also Great Britain’s first and only female prime minister. Margaret Thatcher along with Chancellor Geoffrey Howe tried to deal with this recession by raising taxes and slashing government spending‚ benefits and the selling of state owned services‚ property etc. This mass unemployment
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system would not allow it but in the recent years‚ people have criticised that our Prime Ministers have increasingly become more of a presidential figure in Parliament. Some of the ministers that have been referred to as presidential include Margaret Thatcher‚ Tony Blair etc. Now in this essay‚ I will be analysing the factors that shows the growth of power of PM. The idea that the prime minister is now more presidential is drawn from the knowledge of the United States president and how the British
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General election victory remarks‚ 1979 Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) Location: 10 Downing Street … . Well‚ it’s been a wonderful campaign. Congratulations! Mrs. Thatcher: Thank you very much. Question: How do you feel at this moment? Mrs. Thatcher: Very excited‚ very aware of the responsibilities. Her Majesty The Queen has asked me to form a new administration and I have accepted. It is‚ of course‚ the greatest honour that can come to any citizen in a democracy. (Cheering) I know full
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minimal role in their care. This idea was not fully challenged until the election of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in 1979 as they believed that the state should play as smaller role as possible in welfare provision as it was mainly the responsibility of the individual and their family. The New Right saw state support to be creating a highly dependent society in which independence was dwindling. Mrs Thatcher saw welfare as producing a society which was reliant on benefits rather than a society
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Market Globalism & Justice Globalism Since the Industrial Revolution of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s‚ our planet has gone through a huge variety of changes. We can now drive cars‚ we have the Internet‚ we have TV‚ etc. One of the biggest changes though has been on the global level- not with ourselves. Due to increased availability to travel‚ and for ideas and situations to spread more rapidly‚ this has lead to a phenomenon called globalization. Globalization‚ simply put‚ refers to the interconnectedness
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Was the Hunger Strike Campaign of the 1980’s the most significant IRA action of that decade? The Hunger Strike campaign during the 1980’s were well known in Northern Ireland and Britain and some say this one action was the most significant of the IRA’s during that decade. In this essay I will be exploring how actually The Hunger Strikes were maybe not the most significant actions as during this decade the Brighton Bombings and The Long War were other‚ very momentous action plans the IRA put into
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great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.” ― Margaret Thatcher “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion‚ which is life‚ by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later‚ when a stranger looks at it‚ it moves again since it is life.” ― William Faulkner “The credit belongs to those
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Miners’ Strike Exam Questions 1) You can learn from Source A about the role of women in the miners’ strike that women wanted to have a movement to support the miners and their families in the UK miners’ strike of 1984–85. The movement is recognised with bringing feminist ideas into practice in an industrial argument and empowering women to take a public role in a community with a male-dominated society. They showed this by their participation in enforcing the law to change rights of which miners
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Commanding Heights Reflection My initial thought to this video was “What am I supposed to be learning?” As time went on I finally came to realize that there were three main points; socialism‚ Keynes versus Hayek and right wing versus left wing. To begin with I didn’t really understand what the concept socialism compared to capitalism or communism meant. Now I can say that socialism is basically when the government regulates the economy compared to communism which is a bit more liberal but still
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