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    This document provides a timeline of key historical, political, and literary events from 1979 to today. It outlines important developments in the UK such as Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister in 1979 and Boris Johnson taking office in 2019. In the US, it notes presidential administrations from Reagan to Biden and events like the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The document also mentions select literary works published between 1980 and 2005 from authors like Nadine Gordimer, Don DeLillo, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

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    This document provides a timeline of key historical, political, and literary events from 1979 to today. It outlines important developments in the UK such as Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister in 1979 and Boris Johnson taking office in 2019. In the US, it notes presidential administrations from Reagan to Biden and events like the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The document also mentions select literary works published between 1980 and 2005 from authors like Nadine Gordimer, Don DeLillo, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

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    This document provides a timeline of key historical, political, and literary events from 1979 to today. It outlines important developments in the UK such as Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister in 1979 and Boris Johnson taking office in 2019. In the US, it notes presidential administrations from Reagan to Biden and events like the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The document also mentions select literary works published between 1980 and 2005 from authors like Nadine Gordimer, Don DeLillo, and Kazuo Ishiguro.

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    HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: 1979: In the UK

    M.Thatcher becomes Prime Minister/ 1982: The


    Falkland Islands War/ 1989: The Fall of the Berlin
    Wall/ 1990: in the UK J.Major (conservative)
    becomes Prime Minister/ 1997-2010: New Labour
    Governments (Blair and Brown)/ 2001: 9/11 terrorist
    attack on the Twin Towers in New York/2010-2016:
    in Britain the Conservative Party regains power with
    D.Cameron/ 2019: Boris Johnson becomes Prime
    Minister/ 2020: the UK ceases to be an EU member
    state/

    LITERATURE: 1980: Nadine Gordimer (A Soldier's


    A NEW GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE (1979-
    Embrace), 1997: Don DeLillo: (Underworld)/ 2005:
    TODAY) Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go)

    IN THE USA: 1981-9: Reagan (republican)/ 1989-


    93: G.W.Bush (Persian Gulf Crisis, Saddam
    Hussein. Operation Desert Storm)/ 1993-2001: Bill
    Clinton/ 2001-2009: G.W.Bush , terrorist attacks,
    retaliation on Afghanistan against Al Qaeda, war
    against Iraq/ 2009-17: B.Obama and his social
    reforms/ 2017-21: Donald Trump (anti-immigration,
    dismantling Obama's reforms),/ Today: Joe Biden
    and Kamala Harris

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