Churchill's Second Term
A summary of Churchill's second term.
- Created by: B_R_D
- Created on: 16-03-14 16:54
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- CHURCHILL'S SECOND TERM 1951-1955
- Ailing health meant that Churchill was little more than a 'figurehead'
- R.A. Butler; Churchill's Chancellor of the Exchequer - also H. Sec. and F. Sec. in other posts - most influential figure of period.
- MacMillan, as housing minister, built more than 300,000 new homes
- FOREIGN POLICY
- First atomic bomb of Britain detonated in 1952
- Ended Korean war in 1953
- 'Butskellism'
- There was supposedly convergence between the economic policy of R.A. Butler and Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee's Chancellor.
- Some believe that 'Butskellism' never really existed.
- Beginnings of post-war consensus?
- Gaitskell used taxation, Butler used interest rates
- 'socially conscious' economics
- Ailing health meant that Churchill was little more than a 'figurehead'
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