Making of Modern Britain 1951-79 Timeline

1951 Conservatives won election - Winston Churchill PM Butler Chancellor

1952 Britain’s first atomic bomb tested

1953 End of Korean War

1954 End of food rationing

1955 Churchill retired - Anthony Eden PM Macmillan Chancellor

1956 Suez Crisis

1957 Eden retired - Macmillan PM Thorneycroft Chancellor

1957 Britain’s first hydrogen bomb tested

          Homicide Act

          Rent Act

          Treaty of Rome – formation of EEC

          Ghana wins Independence 

1958 Race Riots

          Life Peerages Act 

          Heathcoat-Amory…