Life in the UK test (2022) ✅️ PREPARE for the Test! MOST IMPORTANT test! (Episode 7) 🎓

hi are you taking the life in the UK test this video is the seventh in a series of videos by me showing you how to prepare for and pass the test first time it contains all the knowledge and facts that you need to know for the test do subscribe and click the notification bell to get the updates on this subject as I release them and the rest of the series if you have any questions then put them in the comments below and I will answer them good luck with the test Britain since 1945 the welfare state although the UK had won the war the country was exhausted economically and the people wanted to change during the war there had been significant reforms to the education system and people now looked for wider social reforms in 1945 the British people elected a Labour government the new prime minister was Clement Attlee who promised to introduced the welfare state outlined in the Beveridge report in 1948 ineuron Bevin the Minister for Health led the establishment of the National Health Service which guaranteed a minimum standard of healthcare for all free at the point of use a national system of benefits was also introduced to provide Social Security so that the population would be protected from the cradle to grave the government took into public ownership in other words it nationalized the railways coal mines and gas water and electricity supplies another aspect of change was self-government for former colonies in 1947 independence was granted to nine countries including India Pakistan and what is now sri lanka other colonies in Africa the Caribbean and the Pacific achieved independence over the next 20 years the UK developed its own atomic bomb and joined the new Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO an alliance of Nations set up to resist the perceived threat of invasion by the Soviet Union and its allies Britain had a Conservative government from 1951 to 1964 the 1950s was a period of economic recovery after the war and increasingly prosperity for working people the prime minister of the day Harold Macmillan was famous for his wind of change speech about decolonization and independence for the countries of the Empire Clement Attlee Clement Attlee was born in London in 1883 his father was a solicitor and after studying at Oxford University Atlee became a barrister he gave this up to do social work in East London and eventually became a Labour MP he was Winston Churchill's Deputy Prime Minister in the wartime coalition government and became prime minister after the Labour Party won the 1945 election he was prime minister from 1945 to 1951 and led the Labour Party for 20 years at leas government undertook the nationalization of major industries like coal and steel and created the National Health Service and implemented many of beverages plans for a stronger welfare state Atlee also introduced measures to improve the condition of workers William Beveridge 1879 to 1963 William Beveridge later Lord beverage was a British economist and social reformer he served briefly as a Liberal MP and was subsequently the leader of the Liberals in the House of Lords but is best known for the 1942 report Social Insurance and allied services known as the beverage report the report was commissioned by the wartime government in 1941 it recommended that the government should find ways of fighting the five giant evils of one's disease ignorance squalor and idleness and provided the basis for the modern welfare state are a butler Richard Austin Butler later Lord Butler was born in 1902 he became a Conservative MP in 1923 and held several positions before becoming responsible for education in 1941 in his role he oversaw the introduction of the Education Act 1944 often called the butler Act which introduced free secondary education in England and Wales the education system has changed significantly since the Act was introduced but the division between primary and secondary schools that it enforced still remains in most areas of Britain Dylan Thomas 1914 to 1953 Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer he often read and performed his work in public including for the BBC his most well-known works include the radio play Under Milk Wood first performed after his death in 1954 and the poem do not go gentle into that good night which he wrote for his dying father in 1952 he died at the age of 39 in New York there are several memorials to him in his birth pace Swansea including a statue and the Dylan Thomas Center migration in post-war Britain rebuilding Britain after the Second World War was a huge task there were labor shortages and the British government encouraged workers from Ireland and other parts of Europe to come to the UK and help with the reconstruction in 1948 people from the West Indies were also invited to come and work during the 1950's there was still a shortage of labour in the UK further emigration was therefore encouraged for economic reasons and many industries advertised for workers from overseas for example centers were set up in the West Indies to recruit people to drive buses textile and engineering firms from the north of England and the Midlands sent agents to India and Pakistan to find workers for about 25 years people from the West Indies India Pakistan and later Bangladesh travelled to work and settle in Britain social change in the 1960s the decade of the 1960s was a period of significant social change it was known as the swinging 60s there was growth in British fashion cinema and popular music two well-known pop music groups at the time were the Beatles and The Rolling Stones people started to become better off and many bought scars and other consumer goods it was also a time when social laws were liberalized for example in relation to divorce and to abortion in England Wales and Scotland the position of women in the workplace also improved it was quite common at the time for employers to ask women to leave their jobs when they got married but Parliament passed new laws giving women the right to equal pay and made it illegal for employers to discriminate against women because of their gender the 1960s was also a time of technological progress Britain and France developed the world's only supersonic commercial airliner Concorde new styles of architecture including high-rise buildings and the use of concrete and steel became common the number of people migrating from the West Indies India Pakistan and what is now Bangladesh fell in the late 1960s because the government passed new laws to restrict immigration to Britain immigrants were required to have a strong connection to Britain through birth or ancestry even so during the early 1970s Britain admitted 28,000 people of Indian origin who had been forced to leave Uganda some great British inventions of the 20th century Britain has given the world some wonderful inventions examples from the 20th century include the television which was developed by Scotsman John Loki barred from 1888 to 1946 in the 1920s in 1932 he made the first television broadcast between London and Garko radar was developed by Scotsman Sir Robert watson-watt 1892 to 1973 who proposed that enemy aircraft could be detected by radio waves the first successful radar test took place in 1935 working with radar led Sir Bernard Lovell 1913 to 2012 to make new discoveries in astronomy the radio telescope he built at Ural Bank in Cheshire was for many years the biggest in the world and continues to operate today a Turing machine is a theoretical mathematical device invented by Alan Turing 1912 to 1954 a British mathematician in the 1930s the theory was influential in the development of computer science and the modern day computer the Scottish physician and researcher John McLean 1876 to 1935 was the co-discoverer of insulin used to treat diabetes the structure of the DNA molecule was discovered in 1953 through work at British universities in London and Cambridge this discovery contributed to many scientific advances particularly in medicine and fighting crime Francis Crick 1916 to 2004 won one of the awards for the Nobel Prize for this discovery he was British the jet engine was developed in Britain in the 1930s by Sir Frank Whittle 1907 to 1996 a British Royal engineering officer Sir Christopher cockerel 1910 to 1999 a British inventor invented the hovercraft in the 1950s Britain and France developed Concorde the world's only supersonic passenger aircraft it first flew in 1969 and began carrying passengers in 1976 Concorde was retired from service in 2003 the Harrier Jump Jet an aircraft capable of taking off vertically was also designed and developed in the UK in the 1960s James good fellow born 1937 invented the cash dispensing ATM automatic teller machine or cash point the first of these was put to use by Barclays Bank in Enfield North London in 1967 IVF in vitro fertilization therapy for the treatment of infertility was pioneered in Britain by physiologist Sir Robert Edwards 1925 to 2013 and gynecologist Patrick Steptoe 1913 to 1988 the world's first quote test-tube baby was born in Oldham Lancashire in 1978 in 1996 two British scientists Sir Ian wilmut born 1944 and Keith Campbell born 1954 to 2012 led a team which was the first to succeed in cloning a mammal Dolly the sheep this has led to further research into the possible use of cloning to preserve endangered species and for medical purposes Sir Peter Mansfield born 1933 a British scientist is the co-inventor of the MRI magnetic resonance imaging scanner this enables doctors and researchers to obtain exact and non-invasive images of human internal organs and has revolutionised diagnostic medicine the inventor of the World Wide Web Sir Tim berners-lee born 1955 his British information was successfully transferred via the web for the first time on the 25th of December 1990 problems in the economy in the 1970s in the late 1970s the post-war economic boom came to an end prices of goods and raw materials began to rise sharply and the exchange rate between the pound and other currencies was unstable this caused problems with the balance of payments imports of goods were valued at more than the price paid for exports many industries and services were affected by the strikes and this caused problems between the trade unions and the government people began to argue that the unions were too powerful and that their activities were harming the UK the 1970s was also a time of serious unrest in Northern Ireland in 1972 the Northern Ireland Parliament was suspended and Northern Ireland was directly ruled by the UK government some 3,000 people lost their lives in the decades after 1969 in the violence in Northern Ireland Mary Peters born 1939 born in Manchester Mary Peters moved to Northern Ireland as a child she was a talented athlete who won an Olympic gold medal in the pentathlon in 1972 after this she raised money for local athletics and became the team manager for the women's British Olympic team she continues to promote sport and tourism in Northern Ireland and was made a dame of the British Empire in recognition of her work Europe and the common market West Germany France Belgium Italy Luxembourg and the Netherlands formed the European Economic Community AEC in 1957 at first the UK did not want to join the EEC but it eventually did so in 1973 conservative government from 1979 to 1997 Margaret Thatcher born 1925 to 2013 Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer from Grantham in Lincolnshire she trained as a chemist and lawyer she was elected as a Conservative MP in 1959 and became a cabinet minister in 1970 as the Secretary of State for Education and science in 1975 she was elected as leader of the Conservative Party and so became leader of the Opposition following the conservative victory in the general election in 1979 Margaret Thatcher became the first woman Prime Minister of the UK she was the longest-serving Prime Minister of the 20th century remaining in office until 1990 during her Premiership there were a number of important economic reforms within the UK she worked closely with the United States President Ronald Reagan and was one of the first Western leaders to recognise and welcome the changes in the leadership of the Soviet Union which eventually led to the end of the Cold War Margaret Thatcher Britain's first woman Prime Minister led the Conservative government from 1979 to 1990 the government made structural changes to the economy through privatization of nationalized industries and imposed legal controls on trade union powers deregulation saw a great increase in the role of the City of London as an International Centre for investments insurance and other financial services traditional industries such as shipbuilding and coal mining declined in 1982 Argentina invaded the and Islands a British overseas territory in the South Atlantic a naval task force was sent from the UK and military action led to the recovery of the islands John Major was Prime Minister after mrs. Thatcher and helped establish the Northern Ireland peace process roald dahl 1916 to 1990 Roald Dahl was born in Wales to Norwegian parents he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War it was during the 1940s that he began to publish books and short stories he is most well known for his children's books although he also wrote for adults his best works include charleen Chocolate Factory and George's marvellous medicine several of his books have been made into films the Labour government from 1997 to 2010 in 1997 the Labour Party led by Tony Blair was elected the Blair government introduced a Scottish Parliament and a Welsh Assembly the Scottish Parliament has substantial powers to legislate the Welsh Assembly was given fewer legislative powers but considerable control over public services in Northern Ireland the Blair government was able to build on the peace process resulting in the Good Friday Agreement signed in 1998 the Northern Ireland Assembly was elected in 1999 but suspended in 2002 it was not reinstated until 2007 most paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland have decommissioned their arms and are inactive Gordon Brown took over as Prime Minister in 2007 conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq throughout the 1990s Britain played a leading role in coalition forces involved in the liberation of Kuwait following the Iraqi invasion in 1990 and the conflict in the former Republic of Yugoslavia since 2000 British Armed Forces have been engaged in the global fight against international terrorism and against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq British combat troops left Iraq in 2009 the UK now operates in Afghanistan as part of the United Nations mandated 50 nation international security assistance force so I think Intel you need to understand you need to understand the establishment of the welfare state you also need to understand how life in Britain has changed over the decades including in the 1960s and 70s in terms of inventions you don't need to remember dates of birth and death of the various inventors and key figures of the 20th century but you do need to be aware of who they are and what they did and the key dates of their main actions if you like and also events since 1979 are important to get on top of and memorize so in terms of the questions that you might get in relation to Britain since 1945 in the life in the UK test here are some sample questions who invented the Turing machine Alan Turing a Turing machine is the theoretical mathematical device invented by Alan Turing who invented radar Sir Robert watson-watt radar was developed by Sir Robert watson-watt who proposed that enemy aircraft could be detected by radio waves who developed the jet engine Sir Frank Whittle the jet engine was developed in Britain in the 1930s by Sir Frank Whittle thanks for watching if you'd like to check out the rest of the lessons in this series in total it contains all the knowledge and facts you need to have to pass the test first time if you have any questions on the life in the UK test just put them in the comments below and I'll answer them if you'd like to subscribe and click the notification bell you'll get my updates on the life in the UK test and how to prepare also my practice tests so that you can do a trial run if you have any questions on securing indefinite leave to remain and naturalizing as a british citizen i have a free consultation service so contact me on the details below good luck in the test and i'll see you in the next video

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Length: 26min 11sec (1571 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 21 2018