Decolonisation and independece
Experiences of people of Caribbean origin in the Uk after WW2
Migration to and from Britain
Europe
100

This was the President of Egypt who nationalised the Suez Canal in 1956.

Nasser

100

This is the political activist who started the West Indies Gazette (and the Notting Hill Carnival)

Claudia Jones

100

This is one push factor that encouraged migration from Jamaica to Britain after 1944

Hurricane

100

This is when Britain was finally accepted in the EEC

1973

200

These are the leaders of the independence mouvements in Ghana and Kenya

Kwame Nkrumah and Jomo Kenyatta

200

This is the politician that delivered a very racist speech in 1968.

Enoch Powell, "Rivers of Blood"

200

This is the main factor for Irish migration to Britain after WW2

Employment (economic factor, pull factor)

200

This was the largest group of European migrants in 2004 in the UK.

Polish 

300

This is the Indian organisation that campaigned for Indian independence and was founded in 1885.

Indian National Congress.

300

This is the law that stated that all Commonwealth citizens could have British passports and work in the UK

1948 British Nationality Act

300

These are at least 4 countries or regions from which people migrated to the UK after WW2.

Caribbean, Europe, East Asia and South East Asia, Kenya and Uganda, Cyprus, Ireland.

300

These are the first 6 counties that joined the steel and coal industries together in 1951.

Germany, Italy, France, Luxemburg, Belgium, NL.

400

This was the leader of Argentina during the Faulklands War

General Gualtieri

400

These are 2 legislations that made it more difficoult for people from the Caribbean to migrate to Britan after the 1960s.

1962 Immigration Act

1968 Commonwealth Immigration Act

400

This is a factor why many people from south Asia migrated to Britain between 1948 and 1955

Partition (government, push factor)

400

This is when:

The ECSC becomes EEC

EEC becomes EU

The UK referendum decides that the UK should leave the EU

The ECSC becomes EEC - 1957

EEC becomes EU - 1993

The UK referendum decides that the UK should leave the EU -2016

500

This was the organisation that started the independence movements in West Africa from the 1920s.

National Congress of British West Africa

500

These are 2 places in London where people orginally from the Caribbean suffered racist attacks and violence (and dates).

Notting Hill 1958

Brixton 1995

500

This is a group of around 70,000 people who moved to Britain in the 1960s and 1970s pushed to move by government actions.

Kenyan and Ugandan Asians.

500

This is the treaty signed that formed the EU (and date)

Maastricht Treaty 1990