MARGARET

THATCHER

 

presented by Johara Meyer

Table of Content

 

  • Definitions
  • Early Years
  • Education
  • The Thatcher Family

  • Early political career

  • Prime minister of the United Kingdom

  • Resignation

  • Thatcherism

  • Conclusion

  • Sources

Socialism

Capitalism

House of Commons 

Shadow Cabinet

& Cabinet

  • name:

      Margaret Hilda Roberts​

  • born:
    13th of October ,1925
    Grantham,Lincolnshire,
    England

  • parents:
    Alfred Roberts
    Beatrice Stephenson

THE EARLY YEARS

1925

1936

EDUCATION

1947

  • primary - Road Primary School

  • secondary - Kesteven & Grantham School​​

  • college - Somerville College

 

THE THATCHER FAMILY

1951

  • Margaret marries Denis Thatcher 
  • Margaret Roberts becomes Margaret Thatcher
  • birth of twins, Mark and Carol

1953

1959-1970

  • 1959 - elected as Minister President for the Parliament of Finchley                         / gets a seat in the House of Commons
  • 1961 - she was promoted to Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance
  • 1964 - the Conservatives lost the election she became spokeswoman on Housing and Land / gets a seat in the shadow cabinet 

- Member of Parliament -

EARLY POLITICAL CAREER

1970 -1974

- Education Secretary and Cabinet minister -

EARLY POLITICAL CAREER

  • She cuts free school milk for school children & is called

 

"Margaret

  Thatcher,

    Milk Snatcher"

1975 -1979

- Leader of the Opposition -

EARLY POLITICAL CAREER

  • 11th of February 1975 she becomes party leader and Leader of the Opposition on
  • In Kensington Town Hall she holds the                 so called " Britain Awake" speech
  • She was dubbed the "Iron Lady" by the newspaper (Red Star) of the                              Soviet Defence Ministry 

Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope"

 

1979 -1990

- Domestic Affairs -

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Goal: reverse Britains economic decline

  • raising interest rates
  • breaking up unions
  • privatization of social housing and public transport

1979 -1983

- Foreign affairs -

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Ronald Reagan & Margaret Thatcher shared right-wing believes and conservativ ideologies  

Thatcher meets with Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader

1982

- Foreign affairs -

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

  • The Falkland Islands are invaded by Argentina in April
  • 10 weeks later Britain successfully reclaimed the Islands 

 

1984

- Assasination -

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

  • the Irish Republic Army tried killing Thatcher with a car bomb at the Conservative Conference in Brighton in October 
  • Thatcher survived an assassination attempt by the Irish Republican Army
  • Eric Taylor,  Anthony Berry, Anne Wakeham, Jeanne Shattock and Muriel McLean died

1990

Resignation & Death

Margaret Thatcher resigned and left Downing Street as Prime Minister for the last time on the 28th of November 1990.

April 8, 2013 Margaret Thatcher dies from a stroke.

2013

Thatcherism

  • political philosophy
  • neoliberalism               ( the rich grow richer and the poor grow poorer )
  • often compared with Reaganomics in the United States
  • limited state
  • free market economy
  • privatization

Conclusion

Conclusion

Sources

http://static1.uk.businessinsider.com/image/54a26155848fb6077701afa7/margaret-thatcher-wanted-to-keep-paedophile-diplomats-name-secret.jpg

http://artcreation.com/images/margaret-thatcher/margaret-thatcher-02.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51N2vAJhl%2BL.jpg

http://www.britpolitics.co.uk/images/political-thinking/thatcherism-pic.jpg​

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/66908000/jpg/_66908080_017687356.jpg

http://terencebunch.co.uk/articles/globalisation-the-united-states-empire-the-rise-of-thatcherism-and-the-uks-descent-into-dependency/margaret-thatcher-british-prime-minister-1925-2013.jpg

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The Iron Lady - from Grocer's Daughter to Prime Minister, John Campbell, Penguin Books, published December 7th 2008

SUPPORTED

OPPOSED

  • mandatory price and income controls
  •  relaxation of divorce laws

 

  • decriminalizing homosexuality
  • council tenants buying their homes
  • legalize abortion
  • capital punishment