1951-64 key dates

Question 1

Conservative Election victories

Answer 1

1951, 1955 and 1959

Question 2

UK’s first atomic bomb is tested

Answer 2

1952

Question 3

Korean war

Answer 3

1950 - 1953

Question 4

suez affair

Answer 4

1956

Question 5

UK’s first hydrogen bomb tested

Answer 5

1957

Question 6

homicide act

Answer 6

1957

Question 7

rent act

Answer 7

1957

Question 8

life peerages introduced

Answer 8

1958

Question 9

Britain becomes a founding member of the EFTA

Answer 9

1959

Question 10

Macmillan’s ‘winds of change’ speech

Answer 10

1960

Question 11

Labour party adopts unilateralism

Answer 11

1960

Question 12

commonwealth immigration act

Answer 12

1962

Question 13

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 13

1962

Question 14

Britain’s application to join the EEC is vetoed by France

Answer 14

1963

Question 15

profumo affair

Answer 15

1963

Question 16

Macmillan retires

Answer 16

1963

Question 17

Douglas Home becomes conservative prime minister

Answer 17

1963

Question 18

Winston Churchill

Answer 18

1951-55

Question 19

Anthony Eden

Answer 19

1955-7

Question 20

Harold Macmillan

Answer 20

1957-63

Question 21

Alec Douglas-Home

Answer 21

1963-4

Question 22

Robbin’s Report

Answer 22

1963

Question 23

Argyll Divorce Case

Answer 23

1963

Question 24

Kim Philby Scandal

Answer 24

1963

Question 25

Vassal Inquiry

Answer 25

1963

Question 26

Treaty of Rome

Answer 26

1957`

Question 27

Macmillan announces his intent to apply for the EEC

Answer 27

1961

Question 28

the Economist coined teh phrase Butskellism

Answer 28

1954

Question 29

Race Riots

Answer 29

1958, ten years after Windrush (1948)

Question 30

when did Hugh Gaitskell become leader of the Labour party

Answer 30

1955

Question 31

Gaitskell loses the vote and the party must adopt unilateralism - victory of the left

Answer 31

1960 conference

Question 32

Gaitskell dies as party leader

Answer 32

1963

Question 33

the Labour party rejects unilateralism

Answer 33

1961

Question 34

Gaitskell follows Atlee in publicly declaring that Labour was against joining the EEC

Answer 34

1962

Question 35

rationing ended

Answer 35

1954

Question 36

Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne - ‘Elizabethan age’

Answer 36

1952

Question 37

Britain gave independence to all the colonies in Africa and the majority of those elsewhere

Answer 37

1957-68

Question 38

clashes between British forces and Kenyan nationalists

Answer 38

1952-60

Question 39

Korean war

Answer 39

1950-53