1964-70

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Labour - 317
Conservative - 304

Question 2

What did Wilson suggest his premiership would be like?

Answer 2

“white heat of the technological revolution”

Question 3

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

Answer 3

• weakness of Conservatives
• Conservative scandals
• How Home became PM
• high unemployment
• EEC failure 1963
• Labour’s younger image
• satire

Question 4

What was the Labour majority after the 1966 election?

Answer 4

110

Question 5

What did the Prices and Incomes board do?

Answer 5

try to regulate pay settlements

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Frank Cousins - minister of technology

Question 7

How much was borrowed from the IMF in 1964?

Answer 7

£1 billion

Question 8

Who did Wilson blame the IMF loans on?

Answer 8

The unions

Question 9

When was the seconds IMF loan?

Answer 9

1967

Question 10

What was the overall balance of payments by 1969?

Answer 10

+ £420 million

Question 11

How many working days were lost to strikes in 1964?

Answer 11

2,277,000

Question 12

How many working days were lost to strikes in 1970?

Answer 12

10,980,000

Question 13

How many Labour MPs opposed the EEC application?

Answer 13

36

Question 14

What happened to their EEC application?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

How did the other EEC members feel about France?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

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

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What did Wilson say about Castle and her white paper?

Answer 17

She was clinging onto it like a dead baby

Question 18

Who was most disappointed by Wilson’s administration?

Answer 18

Traditional Labour supporters

Question 19

Why did many see this period as a failure?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

When was Roy Jenkins Home Secretary?

Answer 20

1965-7

Question 21

Which other MP can be credited with the Liberal Reforms?

Answer 21

David Steel - abortion

Question 22

Which party did David Steel belong to?

Answer 22

Liberals

Question 23

How did Jenkins help the social reforms?

Answer 23

He created an encouraging and supportive environment for social change.

Question 24

What did Jenkins describe the new age as?

Answer 24

the ‘civilised age’

Question 25

What were the criticisms of Labour?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Why was the USA involved in Vietnam?

Answer 26

They were communist

Question 27

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

Answer 27

'We can't kick our creditors in the balls'

Question 28

When did Healy announce foreign withdrawals?

Answer 28

1967

Question 29

Where was Britain going to withdraw from? By when?

Answer 29

Borneo, Malaysia, Singapore and the Persian Gulf. 1971

Question 30

Why did the govt decide to withdraw east of Suez?

Answer 30

- expensive - stretched resources - Suez Crisis and Britain's reputation - decolonisation - Britain would remain a world power regardless

Question 31

How did Wilson feel about the 1970 election?

Answer 31

Confident - he thought he would win

Question 32

How did Powell impact the Conservatives?

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What was Heath's majority in 1970?

Answer 33

30

Question 34

When was Northern Ireland established?

Answer 34

1921

Question 35

What was the situation in Queens Uni, Belfast?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What was founded in 1967

Answer 36

Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association

Question 37

Where was the NICRA's first public demonstration?

Answer 37

Dungannon in August 1968

Question 38

What happened in 1969 in Northern Ireland?

Answer 38

disorder grew and protests began

Question 39

When did the IRA emerge?

Answer 39

August 1969 after British troops came to Northern Ireland.

Question 40

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

Answer 40

2.3% of GDP

Question 41

How many people owned a car in 1965?

Answer 41

11.8 million

Question 42

What became widely available in the 60s?

Answer 42

the female contraceptive pill

Question 43

How many abortions took place in 1968 and 1975?

Answer 43

1968 - 22,300 1975 - 106,600

Question 44

What did the Theatres Act 1968 do?

Answer 44

ended theatre censorship that was previously controlled by the Lord Chamberlain

Question 45

When was the National Viewers and Listeners Association set up?

Answer 45

1963

Question 46

How did Mary Whitehouse feel?

Answer 46

the permissive society was wrong and censorship should remain strong

Question 47

What did Lord Longford do?

Answer 47

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

Question 48

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

Answer 48

- ban discrimination in public places - making racial hatred a criminal offence - setting up a race relations board - creating the Community Relations Commission

Question 49

What did the Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968 do?

Answer 49

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

Question 50

What did young people do with their disposable income?

Answer 50

spent over 60% of it on clothes

Question 51

How did attitudes towards sex change?

Answer 51

- pre-martial sex became more common - cohabitation became more common pre-marriage - single mothers more accepted - homosexual relationships accepted too

Question 52

What happened at LSE in 1967?

Answer 52

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