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6. when did Churchill become Prime minister of the war time coalition?

  • December 1939
  • June 1941
  • May 1940
  • April 1939

7. what year was the first devaluation of the pound?

  • 1950 (£4.80-£2.50)
  • 1949 (£4.80-£2.80)
  • 1949 (£4.30-£2.80)
  • 1948 (£4.40-£2.40)

8. how did the NHS improve 1948-1979?

  • antismoking campaigns were introduced in 1957 and advertisment on tv was banned in 1965
  • the number of antibiotics increased from 1-33
  • the number of staff doubled
  • Mental health act of 1959 was introduced

9. what happened in December 1945?

  • Bloody sunday in Ireland
  • US loan agreement (50 year loan of $3.75 billion plus 2% interest)
  • the Suez crisis
  • the end of bread rationing

10. what was Frank Cousins the leader of?

  • Transport and General worker's union (TGWU)
  • the taxidermy industry
  • trade union leader of press and publications
  • bus and train ways union

11. when was the suez crisis?

  • 1972
  • 1956
  • 1957
  • 1955

12. what happen on the 29th of October 1956

  • Israel attacked Egypt as part of a plan for France and Britain to come in to restore peacec
  • the middle east's stopped giving us oil anyway
  • the canal collapse
  • Nasser died

13. what were the 5 gaints in Beveridge report?

  • rude, mean, racism , youth and money
  • greed, poverty, idleness, sin and stupidity
  • want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness
  • need, illness, stupidity, dirty and lazy

14. what happened in July 1962?

  • the 'night of the long knives'
  • Nottinghill Riots
  • bloody sunday
  • the general election

15. what were reactions to this?

  • 75% of people didnt support interracial marriages and 4/5 wouldnt live next to an immigrant
  • in April 1968 Enoch Powell (Conservative politican) made his 'rivers of blood' speech about immigration
  • London docker workers, smithfield meat porters and heathrow airport workers all showed their support for Powell and he recieved 20,000 letters in support.
  • the Nottinghill riots in 1958

16. what is NATO?

  • never allow terrorism organisation
  • not all tories organisation
  • the north altantic treaty organisation
  • new allies treaty organisation

17. why did labour win the 1945 election (labour's achievements)

  • represented a progessive zeitgeist which encouraged reform anf reconstruction
  • seen as better fit to do post-war construction
  • the first past the post system worked in their favour
  • ministers had respect of the electorate
  • people overlooked their failure due to being a minority government

18. main problems labour faced?

  • Hugh Dalton Chancellor of the Exchequer got loan of $60000 from US and canada in 1945-1947
  • overworked ministers
  • in debt of £4198 million
  • invisible exports dropped by £248 million in 1938 to £120 million in 1946
  • cost of oversea military commitments between 1938 and 1946
  • a balance of payments (1945-46) spent £750 million abroad
  • exports dropped by 60% in wartime

19. what problems did Jim ( James) Callaghan face as Chancellor of the Exchequer?

  • Conservatives lefted it in too bad of a shape
  • seamen's union strike in 1966
  • Bank rate increased
  • one year freeze on wages while prices increased
  • protential devaluation ($2.80-$2.40) and balance of payment crisis
  • restrictions on hire purchase

20. what were the events of the Profumo affair 1962?

  • John Profumo cheated on his wife and lied about it in the house of commons
  • John Profumo minister of the army had an affair with call girl Christine Keeler who aslo had an relationship with a russian spy
  • there was a national security risk
  • Macmillan handly it poorly ;) and Aledc Douglas-Home took over