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1970-1979: End of Post War Consensus - Coggle Diagram
1970-1979:
End of Post War Consensus
Society
Race and immigration
National Front 4th biggest party in 1977
Anti-Nazi League campaigned against NF
1979: Southall Protest between NF and ANL
1978: Rock Against Racism concert
National Front, created in 1967, gained support
Second wave feminism
1975: Sex Discrimination Act
No discrimination in workplace based on sex
1970: Equal Pay Act (came into force 1975)
1970 Miss World Protests
'Reclaim The Night' marches in response to Yorkshire Ripper
1971: Contraceptive pill available on NHS
1976: Domestic Violence Act
1975: Social Security Pensions Act
Woman no longer needed male guarantor on a mortgage
1975: Employment Protection Act
Couldn't dismiss on grounds of pregnancy
1976: Equal Opportunities Commission
Only investigated 9 complaints
Youth culture
Skinheads
Associated with National Front
Associated with football hooliganism
Developed from Mods
Normally working-class
Originally influenced by Jamaican culture
Punks
Anarchist
Nihilism
Ripped and spiked clothes
Against mainstream
Sex Pistols
Environmentalism
Pictures from space show fragility of planet
Counterculture rejecting consumerism
Pressure groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth
Relations
Special Relationship
Heath publicly supported US action in Vietnam War
Strained relationship with US
Heath and Nixon has good relationship to start off
Britain not prepared to be go-between for US and Europe
Britain didn't support US in 1975 Yom Kippur War
No troops sent to Vietnam
EEC Relations
Joined EEC in 1973
Heath was Europhile
1975: European referendum
Most of press in favour of joinng EEC
Some Labour MPs saw EEC as capitalist club (Barbara Castle)
Some MPs afraid Britain would lose its independence
China
Improved relations
Different brand of Communism to USSR
1972Heath and Nixon visit China
Worsening relations between USSR and China mean Britain prepared to resume relations
Tensions because China supported Communist troops in Vietnam and Korea
USSR
Détente in Cold War
Both sides wanted to avoid conflict and confrontation
Tensions remained over USSR's influence in Europe
Northern Ireland
1972: Bloody Sunday
1973: Sunningdale Agreement (failed)
1979: Airey Neave assassinated outside House of Commons
Politics
1970 General Election
46.4%, 330 seats
Majority of 30
Conservative win
Feb 1974 General Election
37.2%, 301 seats
Minority government
Labour win
Oct 1974 General Election
39.2%, 319 seats
3 seat majority (lost by 1977)
Labour win
1977: Lib-Lab Pact to give Labour majority in government
1979 Devolution Referendums
Scotland
51.62% voted to leave
Less than 40% turnout
Wales
20.26% voted to levae
1975 EEC referendum
67.23% voted to Yes (remain)
32.77% voted No (leave)
1979 General Election
43.9%, 339 seats
Conservative win
Majority of 43
Edward Heath 1970-1974
James Callaghan 1976-1979
Harold Wilson 1974-1976
Economy
Rising unemployment
Inflation at 15%
1972 Industry Act: Limit wage increases
Causes stagflation
Social Contract: Wilson caps wage increases at 5%
Increasing strikes
Winter of Discontent 1978-79
Three day week and regular power cuts
1971: Industrial Relations Act
Included cooling-off peiord and bans on wildcat strikes
1975: National Enterprise Board (NEB) set up
£3 billion deficit
1978: Britain applies to IMF for loan
1973: Oil crisis caused by Yom Kippur War