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1964-70 Flashcards

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1
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How many seats did Labour and Conservatives get in the 1964 election?

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Labour - 317
Conservative - 304

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2
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What did Wilson suggest his premiership would be like?

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“white heat of the technological revolution”

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What were the reasons for Labour’s victory in 1964?

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  • weakness of Conservatives
  • Conservative scandals
  • How Home became PM
  • high unemployment
  • EEC failure 1963
  • Labour’s younger image
  • satire
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4
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What was the Labour majority after the 1966 election?

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110

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5
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What did the Prices and Incomes board do?

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try to regulate pay settlements

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6
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Who resigned over the creation of the Prices and Incomes board?

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Frank Cousins - minister of technology

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7
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How much was borrowed from the IMF in 1964?

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£1 billion

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8
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Who did Wilson blame the IMF loans on?

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The unions

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9
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When was the seconds IMF loan?

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1967

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10
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What was the overall balance of payments by 1969?

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+ £420 million

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11
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How many working days were lost to strikes in 1964?

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2,277,000

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12
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How many working days were lost to strikes in 1970?

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10,980,000

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13
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How many Labour MPs opposed the EEC application?

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36

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14
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What happened to their EEC application?

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It was vetoed by de Gaulle as he thought Britain would be an obstructive member.

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15
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How did the other EEC members feel about France?

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They were openly frustrated with the vetoes. However, this was no consolation to Wilson who still felt humiliated.

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16
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Why is it ironic that Castle tried to introduce In Place of Strife?

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she was previously very left-wing and this seemed like a Tory measure.

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17
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What did Wilson say about Castle and her white paper?

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She was clinging onto it like a dead baby

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18
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Who was most disappointed by Wilson’s administration?

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Traditional Labour supporters

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19
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Why did many see this period as a failure?

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Wilson had promised a lot and not delivered on it properly.

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20
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When was Roy Jenkins Home Secretary?

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1965-7

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21
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Which other MP can be credited with the Liberal Reforms?

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David Steel - abortion

22
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Which party did David Steel belong to?

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Liberals

23
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How did Jenkins help the social reforms?

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He created an encouraging and supportive environment for social change.

24
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What did Jenkins describe the new age as?

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the ‘civilised age’

25
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What were the criticisms of Labour?

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  • rising unemployment
  • growing inflation
  • wage controls
  • trade union restrictions
  • immigration controls
  • failed EEC application
  • USA foreign policy
26
Q

Why was the USA involved in Vietnam?

A

They were communist

27
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What did Wilson say when asked why he was supporting the USA in Vietnam?

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‘We can’t kick our creditors in the balls’

28
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When did Healy announce foreign withdrawals?

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1967

29
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Where was Britain going to withdraw from? By when?

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Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore and the Persian Gulf. 1971

30
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Why did the govt decide to withdraw east of Suez?

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  • expensive
  • stretched resources
  • Suez Crisis and Britain’s reputation
  • decolonisation
  • Britain would remain a world power regardless
31
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How did Wilson feel about the 1970 election?

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Confident - he thought he would win

32
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How did Powell impact the Conservatives?

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His rivers of blood speech in 1968 gained them an estimated 2.5 million votes in the 1970 election.

33
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What was Heath’s majority in 1970?

A

30

34
Q

When was Northern Ireland established?

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1921

35
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What was the situation in Queens Uni, Belfast?

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Nearly 1/3 of their students came from a Catholic background by 1969

36
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What was founded in 1967

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Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association

37
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Where was the NICRA’s first public demonstration?

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Dungannon in August 1968

38
Q

What happened in 1969 in Northern Ireland?

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disorder grew and protests began

39
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When did the IRA emerge?

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August 1969 after British troops came to Northern Ireland.

40
Q

How much did Britain spend on R&D in 1960?

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2.3% of GDP

41
Q

How many people owned a car in 1965?

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11.8 million

42
Q

What became widely available in the 60s?

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the female contraceptive pill

43
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How many abortions took place in 1968 and 1975?

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1968 - 22,300
1975 - 106,600

44
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What did the Theatres Act 1968 do?

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ended theatre censorship that was previously controlled by the Lord Chamberlain

45
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When was the National Viewers and Listeners Association set up?

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1963

46
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How did Mary Whitehouse feel?

A

the permissive society was wrong and censorship should remain strong

47
Q

What did Lord Longford do?

A

match her efforts by trying to campaign against their availability of porn

48
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What did the Race Relations Acts of 1965 and 1968 do?

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  • ban discrimination in public places
  • making racial hatred a criminal offence
  • setting up a race relations board
  • creating the Community Relations Commission
49
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What did the Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968 do?

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prohibits people settling in the UK if they don’t have already established family connections

50
Q

What did young people do with their disposable income?

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spent over 60% of it on clothes

51
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How did attitudes towards sex change?

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  • pre-martial sex became more common
  • cohabitation became more common pre-marriage
  • single mothers more accepted
  • homosexual relationships accepted too
52
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What happened at LSE in 1967?

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some staff and students organised a 10 day occupation of the administration block in protest of their new director, Walter Adams - he had previously been principle of University College Rhodesia

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