1 - Conservative Governments And The Reasons For Political Dominance

Question 1

Which snap election did the Conservatives win? Who became PM?

Answer 1

1951

Winston Churchill

Question 2

How old was Winston Churchill in 1951? What was a main problem about this?

Answer 2

77

Frequently ill

Question 3

When was Anthony Eden PM? What was his previous role?

Answer 3

1955-57

Foreign Secretary

Question 4

What event cut Eden’s premiership short?

Answer 4

Suez Crisis

Question 5

When was Macmillan PM from? What did he preside over?

Answer 5

1957-63

Increased prosperity

Question 6

When was Alec Douglas-Home PM from? What happened before he made his mark?

Answer 6

1963-64

Defeated in October 1964 election

Question 7

How long did the Conservatives govern Britain for?

Answer 7

1951-64 - 13 years

Question 8

What board agreement was there between the 3 parties?

Answer 8

Post-war consensus

Question 9

What was the important saying of the post-war consensus?

Answer 9

“From the cradle to the grave”

Question 10

What 2 systems were introduced from the post-war consensus?

Answer 10

Welfare state/NHS

Question 11

What did the government intervene in with the post-war consensus? Why?

Answer 11

The economy

To ensure employment and growth

Question 12

What was the foreign policy of the post-war consensus based on? What did the UK oppose?

Answer 12

US support

Communism

Question 13

Who received independence from the post-war consensus?

Answer 13

Colonies of the Empire

Question 14

What did the Labour Party label the Conservative period of 1951-64 as? How was this contradicted?

Answer 14

“13 wasted years”

Conservatives retained popularity

Question 15

What 2 reasons did the economic policies seem successful?

Answer 15

Minimal unemployment/Increased standards of living

Question 16

What Age were the Conservatives associated with? What monarch was coronated in 1953?

Answer 16

Elizabethan Age of optimism

Queen Elizabeth II

Question 17

How did Britain seem a world power? What event showed this?

Answer 17

Nuclear weapons

Korean War

Question 18

What did the Conservatives maintain? What did they attempt to engender?

Answer 18

Welfare spending and planning

Full employment

Question 19

How many houses did Churchill build per year? What was the purpose of these?

Answer 19

300,000

To be purchased

Question 20

How many new schools were built? What was being planned to double?

Answer 20

6,000

University places

Question 21

When did the first motorways open up? What was the name of the first one?

Answer 21

1959

M1

Question 22

When did Britain become an atomic power? Why?

Answer 22

1952

Explosion of the first British atomic bomb

Question 23

Which 3 elections did the Conservatives win? How many seats were won for each?

Answer 23

1951, 1955, 1959

321, 344, 365

Question 24

What topic caused a split in the Labour Party? What was wanted over this?

Answer 24

Defence spending

Social welfare

Question 25

What did the Labour Party oppose?

Answer 25

Nuclear weapons

Question 26

What main problem of the Labour Party occurred in 1963?

Answer 26

Sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell