Маргарет Тетчер

Margaret Thatcher

 

Dominique Amiri

Global Studies II

A Block

April 2007

 

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Presentation Outline

 

• Context
• WWII ends
• Cold War
• Fidel Castro dictates Cuba
• Falkland’s War
• Content
• The ideologies of Margaret Thatcher
• Thatcherism
• Consequences
• Reforms
• Controversies
• Thatcher’s Legacy

 

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Context

 

• World War II ends
• Cold War
• 1959: Castro dictates Cuba
• Falkland’s War
• Hotel Bombing

 

 

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Early Life and Education

 

• Born Oct. 13, 1925, Grantham in Lincolnshire, England
• Father a grocer, also involved in politics and religion
• Somerville College, Oxford (1947):
• B.S. degree in chemistry
• M.A. in law (taxation)
• 1947-1951: worked as research chemist
• 1951: married Dennis Thatcher

 

 

 

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Early Political Career

 

• 1953: called to the bar, elected into Parliament six years later
• 1970: became Leader of the Opposition
• 1974: became Leader of the Tories (after Edward Heath)
• Right wing conservative

 

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Edward Heath

Rise to Power

 

• May 1979: Thatcher became the first woman ever to serve as the Prime Minister of Great Britain!
• Britain’s longest continuously serving prime minister
• Britain at the time:
• Industrial decline
• Breakdown in public services
• Labor unrest

 

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Policies and Accomplishments

 

• Advocated:

 

• Free market
• Private enterprise
• Value of hard work / discipline
• Capitalism
• Tax cuts
• End to government controls (laissez faire)
• Main objective: to destroy socialism

 

• Accomplishments:

 

• Privatized national industries
• Cut direct taxes
• Controlled inflation
• Victory over Argentina (Falkland Islands) in April 1982
• Reduced power of trade unions
• 1988: reformed education system
• 1990: reformed National Health Services

 

Thatcherism

 

• Margaret Thatcher’s way of running the country became a term referring to a system of political thought
• Characteristics:
• Free market economy
• Privatization of state-owned businesses
• Lower direct taxation, higher indirect taxation
• Opposition to trade unions
• Reduced Welfare State
• Individualism, not collectivism

Alliance with Ronald Reagan

 

• Both served at the same time
• Became companions
• Thatcherism similar to Raeganomics
• Similar policies:
• Private enterprises
• Tax cuts
• Anti-communist
• Free trade
• Foreign affairs
• Cold War, deterrence against Soviets

 

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Controversies

 

• Early policies of indirect taxation and end to gov. controls led to mass unemployment and business bankruptcy but later, business boomed.
• October 12, 1984: IRA tried to kill Thatcher by bombing the Brighton hotel
• Many people protested against her policies / ideas: Miner’s Strike
• Oxford University refused her an honorary degree

 

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Thatcher’s Legacy

 

• First female prime minister
• Longest serving prime minister ever
• Strove to banish socialism and instigate individualism
• Commitment to NATO
• Thatcherism has been adopted by Tony Blair; “We are all Thatcherites now.”

 

 

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Bibliography

 

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“Margaret Thatcher.” Britannica Vol. 11. 2003 ed. 

“Margaret Thatcher.” 15 March 2007. Wikipedia. 4 April 2007.  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher#Legacy>

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