1951-64 Politics

Question 1

Winston Churchill PM Dates?

Answer 1

1940-45
1951-55

Question 2

Anthony Eden PM Dates

Answer 2

Apr 1955 - Jan 1957

Question 3

Harold Macmillan PM Dates?

Answer 3

1957 - 1963

Question 4

R. A. Butler CotE Dates?

Answer 4

1951 - 1955

Question 5

Harold Macmillan CotE Dates?

Answer 5

1955 - 1957

Question 6

Peter Thorneycroft CotE Dates?

Answer 6

1957 - 1958

Question 7

Derick Heathcoat-Amory CotE Dates?

Answer 7

1958 - 1960

Question 8

Selwyn Lloyd CotE Dates?

Answer 8

1960 - 1962

Question 9

Reginald Maudling CotE Dates?

Answer 9

1962 - 1964

Question 10

Order of CotE 1951-64

Answer 10

Rab Butler
Harold Macmillan
Peter Thorneycroft
Derick Heathcoat-Amory
Selwyn Lloyd
Reginald Maudling

Question 11

When was the Suez Crisis?

Answer 11

Oct 1956 - Nov 1956

Question 12

Anthony Eden Background

Answer 12

• Upper Class Background
• Rising Political Star in 1930s
• Foreign Secretary during WW2
• Many occasions 1951-55 was acting PM in Churchill’s absence
• Became PM in 1955
• Humiliated in Suez Crisis 1956
• Resigned in Jan 1957 due to ill health

Question 13

R.A. Butler Background

Answer 13

• Upper Class Background
• ‘Best Prime Minister the Conservatives Never Had’
• Played a key role in the reorganization of the party in 1951 election
• Chancellor from 1951-55
• Possible leader after Eden in 1957, lost
• Again when Macmillan resigned, lost

Question 14

Harold Macmillan background

Answer 14

• Upper Class Background
• Churchill’s Liaison officer during WW2
• Housing Minister in Churchil’s Govt from 1951
• Foreign Secretary in Eden Govt.
• 1957 emerged as the new Conservative PM after Eden.
• His politics were shaped by 2 World Wars and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
• Attlee said Macmillan had almost joined Labour in the 1930s.
• One Nation Tory

Question 15

Aneurin Bevan Background

Answer 15

• Working Class Background
• Minister of Health under Attlee Govt
• Architect of the NHS
• Hero to Labour Left
• Bevan resigned in 1951 to protest against the introduction of prescription charges
• Gained support of many Labour MPs and trade unionists.

Question 16

Hugh Gaitskell Background

Answer 16

• Upper Class Background
• CotE from 1950-51
• Introduced Prescription Charges on NHS
• Right of Labour
• Became leader in 1955, defeating Bevan in the election
• Attempted to reform Labour but was unsuccessful

Question 17

Internal Labour Divisions?

Answer 17

• Labour Leaders aging and in poor health
• Bevanite Quarrel between left and right of the party.
• Left wanted party to be more socialist