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State
I. Major
j Historical Trends
A. Parliamentary Governance
B. Popular
p
Democracyy
C. Industrialization and Empire
II. Post World War II Politics
A. Welfare State and Prosperity
B. Crisis of the Welfare State
C. Thatcherism and Renewal
D. Blair and New Labour
Labour
E. Brown and the Blair Legacy
The United
Kingdom
i d
off
Great Britain
and Northern
Ireland
The Union
Union Jack
Jack
Catch-Up
Catchp on Industrialization ((US,, Germany)
y)
Decolonization
World Wars
Postwar Decline
z
z
Britain and WW II
z
z
z
World War I
Experience
Appeasement
pp
Course of the War
z Battle of France
(May--June 1940)
(May
z Battle of Britain
(July 19401940-June
1941))
General
Election Labour
Landslide
z Q: Why did the British
give Winston
g
Churchill as he
called it The
The Royal
Order of the
Boot?!?!?
1942 Beveridge
g Report
p
(advocating
(
g cradle to
grave welfare system)
Elements of Welfare State
z National Health System
(NHS -- 1946)
z National Insurance Act
(1946)
z Nationalized the coal, steel,
electricity, gas, public
transport, etc. industries
Clement Attlee
The Postwar
Postwar Consensus
Consensus
Return of Conservatives (1951)
z Postwar Consensus (or Butskellism)
z
Welfare
W
lf
St
State
t (especially
(
i ll the
th NHS)
z Nationalization of Key Industries
z Full Employment Policies
z Keynesian Demand management
z Soft Corporatist Politics
z
Anthony Eden
Harold Wilson
Alec
l DouglasDouglas
l -Home
Wilson the
Modernizer
NEDC
z Devaluation
z
Harold Macmillan
Elements of Thatcherism
Monetarism
z Reducing Taxation and Spending
z Reducing the Power of the Trade Unions
z Privatization of State Owned Industries
z Deregulation of the Economy
z
1983 Election
Splits in the Left (SDP)
z Falklands War
The Ladys
z Economic Recovery
not for turning
z
Recession
z Europe
z Poll Tax
z
90.0
Rest of G-7
105.0
100.0
95.0
85.0
2
2005
2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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1971
1970
Rest of G-7
UK
Tony Blair
Elected
John
Major
80.0
75.0
z
z
z
R d i g the
Reducing
th Power
P
off the
th Unions
U i
Clause 4
Tony Blair promises
better things
Browns
Brown
s poisoned
poisoned inheritance
inheritance
Economic Slowdown
z Still in Iraq
z Too many years of Labour
z
but is he
anything new???
Hes cute.