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CM Civi UK - Coggle Diagram

- - - - 1904 : 800k people officially receiving poor relief in England and Wales
    - - House of Lords lots its veto
    - - Humiliation of UK
        
        Indoctrination campaigns to rejunivate the empire
        
        Empire day : 24 May 1902
- - - - lack of social diversity = creeping segregation
        
        rejuvenated far-right movements
        
        strong resentment among ethnic minorities
- - - - Representation of the People Acts (1918) → introduced universal franchise (all women with property) then all women
      - 1919 : First woman MP (Lady Nancy Astor)
      - 1929 : 1st Woman Minister
  - - - 1919-1921 : The Irish War of Independence/guerilla
- - - - Social recovery
        
        economic take-off of 3p per year = accompanied by major demographic changes
        
        Average ware : +20p (1945.55)
        
        Higher income per capita than anywhere else (except US)
        
        Development of the urban lifestyle : ⅘
        
        Baby Boom rose from 48 to 50 million habitants
        
        Child mortality : halved
        
        Mortality rate dropped
      - 1944 Butler Act -> education
        
        Free + compulsory secondary
        
        1935 - 1955 = 600k -> 2 millions pupils
      - Age of mass consumerism
        
        democratise access to material goods
        
        Influence of the American way of life → dream of an affluent middle class lifestyle
        
        Planned obsolescence, hire-purchase, consumer credit
  - - - Productivity = indicator of long run performance = reveals a country’s living standards → on the rise until 1977
- - - - conservatism against social changes --> conservative society divided over sexual forms
  - - - Housing Act (1980): idea of a ‘home owning democracy’
      - “The Right to Buy” policy on council estate housing
- - - - Education Act (1907) = school medical inspections
    - - greatest inovation: People's Budget (1909) = 1st attempt at wealth redistribution
- - - - 1998: 3 acts of parliament introduced systems = 'devolution' --> Scotland, Wales, Notthern Ireland
        
        = delegation of power to national authorities
        
        meet enduring calls for more democracy BUT also pol strategy for Labour
  - - - risk of competition btw westminster//other national powers
        
        sgared btw diff levers of gov = uk parliamament queezed btw EU and devolved autorities
      - identities ussues:
        
        tentions = increased devolition --> 2014 Scottish Referendum
- - - - benefits of "economic policy of prudence":
        → froze income tax thresholds and personal allowance
        → national insurance contributions increased
        → removal of tax credits for on investments in pensions
      - education:
        → tuition fees (at £1,000 in 1998)
        → league tables and examination pressures
    - - 2002: the age of consent for gay sex lowered to 16
        2004: Civil Parnership Act
    - - joint US/UK operations: october 2001 in Afghanistan --> war on terrorism + stand with the US = dependent of the us intern. policies
        
        → Anti-war protest movements → Tony Blair = detached from the population
        
        The Blair doctrine = liberal interventionism
        
        2003: Irak war
        
        --> no weapons found
        
        fuelled anti-Western feeling
        
        attacks:
        
        March 2004: bombs exploded in Madrid
        
        July 2005: 4 suicide bombers killed 57 people on London Underground train
      - authoritarian turn
        
        The Terrorism Act (2000):
        
        allowed police to detain terrorist suspects for questioning for up to 7 days
        
        allowed police to stop/search any person or vehicle without need to suspect that person
        
        The Terrorism Act (2006):
        
        defines offence of “glorifying” terrorism
        
        period of detention of terrorist suspect without charge up to 28 days