Margaret Thatcher
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Margaret Thatcher 's path to power
[English special topic]
Sophie Paiker
4/10/2014
Table of Contents
Abstract
p. 3
Prologue
p. 3
Early Biography
p. 4
First Rungs
p. 5
Making it to the Shadow Cabinet
p. 6
Rising to the Top I: Party Leader
p. 6
Rising to the Top II: Prime Minister
p. 7
Falklands War
p. 9
Mrs. Thatcher and the IRA
p. 10
Miners‘ Strike 1984-5
p. 11
Cold War: Mrs. Thatcher and the Soviet Union
p. 13
Privatising Industry
p. 15
Conclusion
p. 16
Bibliography
p. 17
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Abstract
The purpose of the present treatise is to review important aspects of the economic, social and political history of one of the most important nations of Europe, Britain, in the second half of the Twentieth
Century. Having been a victor of the Second World War, policies pursued immediately afterwards had led to the Empire beeing gradually lost, and with it economic strength, due to factors rooted in social relations and psychological aspects rather unique to Britons. Equally unique, however, was the way the nation recovered from 1980 onwards, to once more, assume its place at the top (or near it) of the
European league. There is widespread agreement that without the involvement in this strenuous process of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, a person of clear ideas and almost ruthless determination, this would most probably have been impossible to achieve, and although it can impossibly be depicted, or far from exhaustively, in the context of such a limited exercise as the present one, it will be attempted to shed light on to the most important events of that era, and how the return to sound economical and political standing was achieved, in more or less anecdotal form.
My personal interest stems from the fact that for many years I have now listened to my parents‘ tales who thirty years ago had spent five years in Mrs. Thatcher’s
Margaret Thatcher 's path to power
[English special topic]
Sophie Paiker
4/10/2014
Table of Contents
Abstract
p. 3
Prologue
p. 3
Early Biography
p. 4
First Rungs
p. 5
Making it to the Shadow Cabinet
p. 6
Rising to the Top I: Party Leader
p. 6
Rising to the Top II: Prime Minister
p. 7
Falklands War
p. 9
Mrs. Thatcher and the IRA
p. 10
Miners‘ Strike 1984-5
p. 11
Cold War: Mrs. Thatcher and the Soviet Union
p. 13
Privatising Industry
p. 15
Conclusion
p. 16
Bibliography
p. 17
2
Abstract
The purpose of the present treatise is to review important aspects of the economic, social and political history of one of the most important nations of Europe, Britain, in the second half of the Twentieth
Century. Having been a victor of the Second World War, policies pursued immediately afterwards had led to the Empire beeing gradually lost, and with it economic strength, due to factors rooted in social relations and psychological aspects rather unique to Britons. Equally unique, however, was the way the nation recovered from 1980 onwards, to once more, assume its place at the top (or near it) of the
European league. There is widespread agreement that without the involvement in this strenuous process of Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, a person of clear ideas and almost ruthless determination, this would most probably have been impossible to achieve, and although it can impossibly be depicted, or far from exhaustively, in the context of such a limited exercise as the present one, it will be attempted to shed light on to the most important events of that era, and how the return to sound economical and political standing was achieved, in more or less anecdotal form.
My personal interest stems from the fact that for many years I have now listened to my parents‘ tales who thirty years ago had spent five years in Mrs. Thatcher’s
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