Margaret Thatcher by tiffanyluikert

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Margaret Thatcher

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

MARGARET THATCHER

BY TIFFANY LUIKERT

EARLY LIFE

- Margaret Thatcher was born in Grantham, Lincolnshire on October 13th, 1925.
- Her father, Mayor of Grantham, was a major influence in her childhood.
- She arrived at Oxford in 1943 and graduated in 1947.
- She became President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1946.
- After graduating in 1947, she got a job working as a chemist.

WAYS SHE INFLUENCED BRITAIN:

1. She became the first female prime minister in Britain.
2. She privatized the industries and utilities that were costly, outdated and uneconomic.
3. She restored Britain's standing in the world by facing up to Argentine aggression.
4. She did a good job of driving down government debt.
5. She turned a ruined country into an economic powerhouse and restored her peoples faith in themselves and their future.

WAYS SHE INFLUENCED THE WORLD:

1. She stood up to communist dictatorship and helped win the Cold War.
2. She worked with Presidents Reagan and Gorbachev to secure the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987.
3. She inspired a generation of young people to take an active interests in politics.
4. She freed the Falklands and, indirectly, caused the downfall of dictatorship in Argentina.
5. She was among the first world leaders to recognize the reality and threat of climate change.

ISSUES SHE FACED:

1. In April 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands. She responded with a demonstration of military force, which forced Argentinians to surrender.
2. In 1984, an assassination attempt nearly took her life. Just a few years before, she had refused to meet the demands of Irish terrorists. In retaliation, a bomb was planted in the Grand Hotel in Brighton, where the Conservative Party was held.
3. The poll tax triggered anger because of its inherently regressive nature: a flat rate levied on every adult regardless of their income. This caused a series of riots and protests up and down the country against the changes.

THINGS PEOPLE DID NOT APPROVE OF:

1. She destroyed Britain's manufacturing industry and her policies led to mass unemployment.
2. She instituted a widely unpopular poll tax which shifted the tax burden from the rich to the poor.
3. She cut public funding for free milk for school children, which had been in place since the Second World War.

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