Modern British History 13 wasted years

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When did Churchill become postwar prime minister?
October, 1951
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Who succeeded Churchill as prime minister?
Anthony Eden
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When was Churchill succeeded as prime minister?
April 1955
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When did the third Tory prime minister take office?
January, 1957
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When did the fourth Tory prime minister take office?
October 1963
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What was the name of the third Tory prime minister?
Harold Macmillan
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What was the name of the fourth Tory prime minister?
Alec Douglas-Home
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What was the name of the labour leader who ended Tory electoral dominance?
Harold Wilson
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When did the "thirteen years" end?
October 1964
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What is consensus politics?
the period from 1951 until the early 70's where there seemed very little fundamental difference between the two main parties
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What role did R.A Butler play in Churchill's government?
Chancellor of the exchequer
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Who was Labour leader from 1955 till his death in 1963?
Hugh Gaitskell
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How old was Churchill upon reelection?
77
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What was the labour split during the 13 years
A split between the majority of moderate labour members led post 1955 by Hugh Gaitskell who believed in rearmament and other conservative style values. Against the Bevanites who were more socialist anti-capitalist and pro-nationalisation
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Why did the labour split cause problems for labour
labour seemed not to know its own mind, and many found the overly leftist Bevanites cause for concern
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What was the Suez Crisis?
The occupation of the newly nationalised suez canal by Britain and France on the pretext of forcing a ceasefire between Egypt and Israel, in truth part of a secret pact by Israel, France and Britain to take the Suez back.
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Why did the Suez crisis fail?
America was firmly against the invasion and so refused to offer Britain economic support, Eden lost his nerve and withdrew over fears Britain's economy would collapse
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How many of Macmillan's cabinet attended public schools?
14 out of 16
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What was the name of Macmillan's 1938 book?
The Middle Way
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What was Macmillan's nickname and what he often misquoted as having said?
Supermac and he is often misquoted as having said "you've never had it so good"
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When did the Tory's miss an opportunity to join the EEC?
At its inception in 1957
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How many were unemployed by 1963?
900,000
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What was the first step away from austerity?
The end of all rationing when the Tory's came into power
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How much did wages and inflation rise respectively between 1951 and 1963?
wages rose 72% and inflation just 45%
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Name two of the years the conservatives surpassed house building targets and how many they built in said years.
327,000 in 1953 and 354,000 in 1954
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What did the Mental health act say and what year was it passed?
that mental health was passed in 1959 and said that mental illness was to be treated the same as physical illness
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What two things regarding the NHS were the Tory's criticised for?
Building few new hospitals and introducing a 2 shilling prescription charge
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How many new schools did the Tory's build?
6000
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When was the first motorway built?
1959
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What is stop-go economics?
A policy where inflation and the balance of balance of payments deficit were reduced by restricting imports and raising interest rates. removing said controls then causes an industry boom (go phase) which causes more imports so another stop's needed
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R.A Butler started the Stop-Go trend name the other three chancellors who would be involved.
Thorneycroft, Amory and Lyoyd
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In 1961 the Tory's were refused entry into the EEC by De Gaulle what two organisation were set up after this to try and improve the economy?
Neddy (National Economic Development Council 1961) and Niddy (National Incomes Commission)
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What was the balance of payments deficit in 1964?
£748 million
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What is the balance of payments?
an accounting record of all monetary transactions between a country and the rest of the world. Sources of income (exports etc) are positive sources of expenditure (imports etc) are negative
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How can the conservatives be criticised regarding housing?
They helped construct many new houses but few of these were council houses, forcing impoverished councils to build the notorious tower block flats.
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What was Macmillan's Night of the Long Knives?
A major cabinet reshuffle without giving prior notice to said cabinet ministers, outraged Macmillan's ministers and caused much stress contributing to his retirement.
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In October 1962 an attempted cover up by 2 ministers for an admiralty clerk who spied for the USSR following blackmail over his homosexuality was made public, what was the clerks name?
John Vassall
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When was the Profumo affair made public?
June 1963
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Who was Profumo?
Minister for War
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Who did Profumo have an affair with
Christine Keeler
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Why was the affair significant?
Keeler had also been associating with a Russian Naval attache and suspected spy, thus it was a security breach. (Bonus) Profumo lied to parliament which is high treason.
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What about Macmillan retiring caused problems?
An unseemly leadership struggle made the party look bad and meant the three likely candidates were bypassed for compromise candidate Douglas-Home
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Why was Home unsuccessful
Home's aristocratic background allowed Labour to claim he was entirely out of touch and unfit to rule. (bonus) Enoch Powell and Ian Macleod wouldn't join his cabinet so he failed to unify the party.
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Labour reorganised under it's post Gaitskell leader but on what revitalizing policies did labour campaign?
improved wellfare, better economic planning and modernisation with the "white heat of technology"
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By 1964 how did the Tory's and Labour compare
the Tory's seemed out of ideas and the embodiment of the corrupt upper class establishment, Labour seemed modern and classless
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What was Clause IV in the labour party?
A clause committing Labour to the Nationalisation of industry largely ignored by the centre but a keystone of Bevan's divisive splinter group
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