Quiz questions so far (British History)

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What % lead did the Labour have over the Conservatives in the polls from 1943 onwards?
10-20%
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According to Harold Macmillain, whose ghost cost the Conservatives the 1945 general election?
Neville Chamberlain
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What decade of unemployment and deprivation influenced the public mood in 1945?
1930s
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Who did Churchill liken the Labour Party to when he tried to discredit them in a speech?
Gestapo
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What year was the Beveridge Report? What was its aim?
1942. introduce comprehensive social insurance schemes
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Why did the public's perception on the Labour Party change?
Labours role in the war time coalition
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What are the surnames of the following wartime Labour MPs ministers 1945? Hugh... , Stafford... , Ernest... , Clement...
Hugh Gaitskell, Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin, Clement Attlee
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What was the title of Labour's Manifesto?
Lets face the future together
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What was the name of the Conservatives 1945 election manifesto?
declaration to the voters
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What did the conservatives fail to focus their general election campaign on in 1945?
basic, domestic issues
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How old was Churchill in 1945?
70
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What did Churchill fail to do in his speeches that turned off many of the electorate
Focus on after war issues like unemployment
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3 negative things in the nations memory in 1951?
second world war, depression of the 1930s, Attlees government 1950s
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what period is generally accepted as the period of the post-war consensus
1945-1979
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Post war consensus - A belief in a mixed ...
mixed economy
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Post war consensus - Support for the NHS and the...
the welfare state
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Post war consensus - Keynesian economics with a commitment to ...
a commitment to full employment
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Post war consensus - Government working in partnership with...
with trade unions
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Post war consensus - Foreign Policy based on support for... and opposition to ...
support for US and opposition to USSR
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Post war consensus - Independence for the...
the European colonies
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Who was seen as the party of mass unemployment in the 1930s?
Conservatives
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Why did the Conservatives realise it was important to have a relationship with the trade unions in 1951?
To prevent strikes
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Why were the Conservatives not in a position to dismantle Labour's welfare reforms in 1951?
Didn't have a big enough majority and it was too popular with the people
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Which two industries did the Conservatives denationalise in 1951?
Transport and Steel
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Which magazine came up with the term 'Butskellism'?
Economists
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The names of which Conservative chancellor and which former Labour chancellor did the term 'Butskellism' refer to?
R.A. Butler and High Gaitskell
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There was never a unanimous agreement between the parties and sharp policy differences still existed. True or False
True
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Who is credited with destroying the post-War consensus?
Margret Thatcher
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Between 1952-53, the team at the Ministry of Housing led by Harold Macmillain achieved and even exceeded their goal when ... houses were built annually
318,750 houses
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The general uplift in the economy felt in the early 1950s was mainly due to Marshall Plan and Britain remained in debt by £... billion as a result
In debt by £26 billion
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Churchill's government was convinced that Great Britain can only restore its glory by the ownership of nuclear weapons. Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated in ....
in 1953
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In .... Churchill have the go ahead to develop the H bomb.
in 1955
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In 1951 there were ... unemployed. It began to rise in 1952 so the government responded with public work schemes.
above 300,000
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As a result to the public work schemes, in the period 1951-55 unemployment never exceeded ...
never exceeded 500,000
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Rationing ended in ... on sugar
in 1953
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Rationing ended on butter and meat in ... This made people better off.
in 1954
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When Churchill became PM in 1951 for the second time aged ... his health was failing. He was incapacitated by a stroke for months in 1953, after which his leadership ability was lost
aged 77
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Inner party tensions emergered from 1953 as Churchill refused to stand down- the frustration of ... became apparent
Eden
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This was a period of ...- broad agreement between the two sides on economic issues. Stop go economic policies were accepted
Butskellism
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The beginnings of affluence occurred. ... ownership for example grew as well as ... ownership
TV as well as Car ownership
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New towns such as ... and ... were created to replace wartime slums
Basildon and Crawley
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Ian Macleod tried to fight for more money for ..., which he recognised were in need of modernisatio, but found himself in a queue very much behind housing. Few improvements were therefore made.
Hospitals
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The Churchill government inherited a £.... million Balance-of-Payments deficit from Labour but they were in the black by £... million by 1953.
£700 million b.o.p deficit but were in the black by £300 million in 1953
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which senior ministerial post had Eden held for 10 years?
Foreign secretary
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what was Eden's majority in parliament following the 1955 General Election
70%
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Why was the 1955 election victory by Eden so significant
First time in 90 years that the majority had gone up for the party after the first election of being in power
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how did the Chancellor Butler increase the election prospects of the Conservatives in 1955
£134 million give away budget
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The Labour Party did not suffer a crushing defeat in the 1955 general election because...
they still achieved 46% of the votes
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What happened at Eden's first press conference that suggested that he had very little experience of domestic politics?
R.A. Butler answered all the questions on domestic policies
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Which Labour leader made life uncomfortable for Eden in the House of Commons
Hugh Gaitskell
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Which newspaper said that Eden's policies lacked the 'smack of firm government' ?
Daily telegraph
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Eden's popularity fell from ... % to ....% in the space of twelve months
from 70% to 40%
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When was the Suez crisis?
1956 (On the 29th October Israel invaded the canal)
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Which newspaper accused Eden of lying to the House of Commons during the Suez crisis
Manchester Guardian
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Where is the Suez Canal
Near Egypt in the Middle East
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Who was the Egyptian leader in 1956
Colonel Nasser
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What did Nasser promise to build
Aswan Dam
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Who was also involved in Suez
Israel and France (as well as Britain and the US (also Egypt))
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Eden claimed 'The Egyptian had its ...... on Britain's .....'
Had its thumb on Britain's windpipe
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What did Macmillain successfully deliver whilst Housing Minister in Churchill's government?
The promised 300,000 houses
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What had Macmillain opposed in the 1930s that Butler supported which went against him to succeed Eden as PM?
Appeasement and National Government Policies
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What month/year did Macmillain call a general election
October 1959
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How much was given away in tax cuts to help ensure election victory for the Conservatives and who was the Chancellor at that time?
£370 million in tax cuts. Derek Heathcoat-Amory was the Chancellor
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What was the parliamentary majority of Conservatives after the election in 1959?
100
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Mac believed that all classes in society have obligations to one another and that theres a particular responsibility for those better off to ensure the well-being of those less fortunate.What's this belief more commonly known as to some Tories?
One-Nation Conservatives
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What is the name of the social reform introduced during Macmillan's premiership, The C........ A...... A
The Clean Air Act (1952) - in response to London's Great Smog
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What is the name of the social reform introduced during Macmillan's premiership, The H .... and F...... A...
The Housing and Factory Act
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What is the name of the social reform introduced during Macmillan's premiership, The H....... A....
The Homicide Act (1957) - Abolish the death penalty
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What did the Wolfenden Committee recommend
Homosexuality to no longer be a crime
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Which word incorporating the surnames of a Conservative and a Labour politician is often referred to as evidence of a post-war consensus between the two major parties?
Butskellism
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What two word term is used to describe the inconsistent economic policies of the 1950s Conservative governments?
'Stop-go'
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What was the average weekly wage of male workers in 1950 and then in 1964
from £8.30 (1950) to £18.35 (1964)
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By the early 1960s, which 3 countries were pulling ahead of Britain in terms of economic growth?
Germany, Japan, France
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Unemployment had reached ......... by 1963
878,000 unemployed in 1963
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As a consequence of Britain's declining economic position, Macmillain applied to join the EEC in what year?
1961
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Who rejected Britain's application to the EEC and when?
The French President Charles de Gaulle in January 1963
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How did Macmillain frequently respond to the ups and downs of politics?
'Events dear boy events'
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When did Macmillain radically reshuffle his cabinet? (month/year)
July 1962
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What did this reshuffle become known as?
Night of the Long Knives
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Which two things about Macmillain made him seem 'out of date' in the early 1960s
Aristocracy and Edwardian Image
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Spy scandals in the early 1960s also reflected badly on Macmillain. Why? What did this suggest about Macmillain?
In the time of the Cold war Profumo lied to parliament about his affair but Macmillain believed him, making him seem out of touch with his cabinet
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who was convicted of being a Soviet double agent in 1961
George Blake
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which 3 people were involved in the infamous politics, sex and spying scandal that came to light in 1963
Christine Keeler, John Profumo, Sergie Ivanov
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When did Macmillain resign as PM (month/year)
October 1963
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Who were the two most obvious candidates to replace Macmillain as PM
Butler and lord Hailsham
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Who replaced Macmillain
Sir Alec Douglas Home
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what did he have to give up and why prior to becoming PM
Had to give up his peerage to be in the House of Commons
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who became Labour leader in 1963
Harold Wilson
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One of the new leader's most effective campaign speeches had promised that Britain would catch up with 'the ......'
'the white heat of the technological revolution'
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The deaths of which two Labour 'titans' helped the new leader unite the Labour Party?
Bevan and Gaitskell
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In which Yorkshire town was the new Labour leader (Wilson) born?
Huddersfield
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How many people were unemployed in 1955? (number and percent)
200,000, about 1%
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Name two traditional industries which the numbers employed were falling in the 1950s
farming/fishing/mining
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Name two industries in which the numbers employed were rising in the 1950s
steel/car/electrical
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By 1960, the numbers working in service industry has risen dramatically to ...
5 million
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what causes inflation
when prices rise
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why can deflation lead to unemployment
business need to make cuts to survive
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what was Macmillan referring to when he said 'what we need is restraint and common sense'
referring to wage demands by trade unions and how the public spent their money
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what was the financial consequence for Britain for Britain when the USA put pressure on Britain to end the Suez crisis in 1957
run on the pound exposed economic weakness
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which of macmillans chancellors suggested 'monetarism' as the solution to Britain's long standing economic problems
Peter Thornecroft
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The economy continued to expand despite the underlying problems, So much so that the budget of April 1959 contained tax cuts of ......
370 million
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what was the b.o.p deficit facing the incoming Labour government in 1964
750 million
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how many people were unemployed in 1962
800,000
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which two general elections had a 'give-away; budget to help the Tories with electioneering
1955 (134 million) and 1959 (370 million)
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Car ownership grew from ..... to ...... across the period. This was a sign of growing affluence
from 3 million to 7 million
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Britain was known as the '..........' because her economic growth rates lagged behind which 3 countries
known as the 'sick man of europe' . germany, france, italy
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what indicators were used to say that people were spending beyond their means in 1952-62
amount of goods bought and repossessed on hire purchase doubled
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interest rates are ............ when the economy is overheating
increased
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what % of Britains research and development budget was spent on defence
35%
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why was the percentage spent on defence a problem for the British economy
it was at the cost of industry
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why was the USA essentially Britain's creditors
they financed our recovery
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britains share of world trade fell from ...... (in ....) to .... (in ..)
fell from 25% in 1950 to 15% in 1964
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By 1964, the Conservatives could successfully claim to be well on their way to creating a property owning democracy, why?
successfully built the promised amount of houses and maintained full employment, there was also a growth in affluence
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Who were Macmillan's for chancellors- in chronological order
Peter Thornecroft, Derek Heathcoat-Amory, Selwyn Lloyd, Reginald Maulding
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Britain in 1951 was a very ...... and ....... society.
a very traditional and deferential society.
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Most families in 1951 Britain were ........
patriarchal
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In order to access a grammar school education students would have to sit which examination?
11 plus test
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Immigration began when which ship docked in London from the West Indies in 1948?
The Empire Windrush
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what took place in 1951 to give 'a tonic to the nation' post-WW2?
Festival of Britain
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Which book (title and author) published in 1958 gave Britain a contemporary view of working class life in Nottingham
Saturday night and Sunday morning by Alan Sillitoe
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Give 5 examples of 'new towns' that emerged/grew in the 1950s
Crawley, Harlow, Kirkby, Stevenage, Corby
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Name Britain's first residential tower block that opened in Harlow (1951)
The Lawn
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ownership of what intensified population shift in the 1950s?
Car ownership
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Between 1952 and 1964, ........... new homes were built. ...% of these were private homes
1.7 million new homes, 60% of which were private homes
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Why did home ownership increase in this period
low mortgage rates and ease in borrowing and repaying loans
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With regard to housing, how do we know that not everyone was experiencing the same level standard of living rise
people in council or rental housing still exceeded those in private dwelling
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what was the most obvious sign of the new affluence of this period
rise in ownership of consumer goods
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How did some women in London mark Derationing Day, and in what year
they burnt their rationing books in 1954 at Trafalgar square
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How did Macmillan aim to stimulate the rental property market?
Rent Act of 1957, which removed rent controls
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what was the downside of Macmillan's actions for many prospective renters
many could no longer afford cost of rent so were made homeless
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what was the name of the unsrupulous London landlord who took advantage of Macmillan's actions?
Rachman
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The working classes were able to widen their leisure activities/opportunities by receiving paid holidays- how many annually were they allowed
2 weeks
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what percentage of people were taking foreign holidays in the early 1960s?
2%
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which industry was a visible sign of new affluence in this period
advertising
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When was ITV (commercial TV) launched
1955
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By 1960, how man TV sets were in use and what percent of the population watched TV in the evenings
10 million TV sets watched by 50% of the population in the evenings
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Name as many TV programmes which were popular in this period
Barry Bucknell's Do it Yourself, Gardening club, coronation street, dixon of dock green, come dancing, emergency ward 10, bill and Ben the flower-top men, the wooden tops
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which three social activities declined with the rise of TV as an entertainment medium
cinema, pub, sport, theatre
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The network of public-school and oxbridge boys who dominated key institutions of british political life, aristocracy civil servants, judges bishops diplomats officers, big business/media leaders are better known as the ....
establishment
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what other term was used to describe the establishment?
Old Boy Network
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describe a fall in the respect offered to the 'establishment' figures and social elites just because of who they were
decline in deference
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which newspaper claimed it was giving the public what it wanted when it covered the Profumo Affair for a number of weeks
News of the world
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...... refers to the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary ploitics and other topic issues.
satire
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ideas of holidays and destinations were changed by ......
the increase in car ownership
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