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Question 1

Geddes axe

Answer 1

Recommended cuts of 86 million but was actually 64 million

Question 2

House And Town Planning Act

Answer 2

1919, cost three times the amount it should have. 200,000 built, still leaving shortages of 800,000

Question 3

‘Shotgun wedding between liberal fair maid and Tory militarism ogre’

Answer 3

Mawick on coalition due to conscription

Question 4

WW1 made unprecedented demands on economy’

Answer 4

Peden

Question 5

‘Advance of state control cautious limited and temporary’

Answer 5

Bourne

Question 6

‘Ministry of Munitions a temporary phenomenon’

Answer 6

Smith

Question 7

‘The lion [labour party in 1906] has no teeth or claws and is losing its growl too’

Answer 7

Tillet

Question 8

‘Government showed no long term needs of agriculture’

Answer 8

Bourne

Question 9

‘Never again enjoyed the financial stability it had before war’

Answer 9

Simpson

Question 10

Seats won by Labour 1906

Answer 10

30

Question 11

Liberal legislation blocked by Lords

Answer 11

Abolition of plural voting bill, liscencing Bill 1908

Question 12

How much would dreadnoughts and reforms cost

Answer 12

£15 million and £16 million

Question 13

People’s budget did what

Answer 13

Income tax for over 30,000 p/a and super tax for over 50,000 p/a and death duties on inherited property

Question 14

New and old industry export, 1900s

Answer 14

51% old industry. 2.2% aircraft and cars.

Question 15

Uboat crisis sunk ___ causing lots of shortages in ___

Answer 15

3.7 million tonnes, 1915

Question 16

War funded through taxation

Answer 16

88 million direct taxation, 75 million indirect taxation

Question 17

Class divide

Answer 17

75% manual labourers, 5 million upper class accounted for 50% of income

Question 18

How much spent per year on army and navy put together before war

Answer 18

£80 million

Question 19

National debt

Answer 19

625 million to 7,980 million start and end of war

Question 20

Trade union membership at end of war

Answer 20

8 million

Question 21

Coalition liberals and conservatives amount of seats won in 1918 coupon election

Answer 21

332

Question 22

Labour seats won 1922

Answer 22

142 this is more than the liberals won

Question 23

All liberals together won how many seats in 1922

Answer 23

116

Question 24

Irish seats 1918

Answer 24

Sinn Fein had 73 of 105

Question 25

Britain vs USA coal cutting methods

Answer 25

8% mechanic compared to 25% in USA

Question 26

Trade union membership 1927 and why

Answer 26

Below 5 million as a result of the failure of the general strike and the consequential trades disputes act

Question 27

Volunteers in general strike

Answer 27

100,000

Question 28

Sankey commission

Answer 28

Set up in 1919 to investigate conditions and pay in mining. Recommended rise in wages and a shorter working day.
Recommended nationalisation but government refused.

Question 29

TU membership 1910-1914

Answer 29

2.5 million to 4million (25% of population)

Question 30

May predicted ____ budget deficit by 1932

Answer 30

120 million

Question 31

Conservative votes for 1931 National Government

Answer 31

12 million, 6.6 million Labour

Question 32

Unemployment in Jarrow (n) and St Albans (mid) in 1934

Answer 32

68%, 4%

Question 33

Budget deficit 1951

Answer 33

700 million

Question 34

Rise in pensions

Answer 34

£1.30 per week 1946

Question 35

Conservative record membership 1951

Answer 35

2.8 million

Question 36

50s wages rose %

Answer 36

70%

Question 37

1911-1913 TUs

Answer 37

1.6 to 2.6 million

Question 38

46 policy

Answer 38

NT NI NA fampen

Question 39

Conservative policy 25-9

Answer 39

26 Electricity Act
28 Equal Franchise Act
29 Local Government Act

Question 40

Unemployment interwar period

Answer 40

Always over 9%, 23% in 1932, 46% in mining and ships

Question 41

45 Lab seats

Answer 41

393

Question 42

1935 Lab votes

Answer 42

35%

Question 43

Housing

Answer 43

Addison 1919 170,000
22 Subsidy 6 20
24 Wheatley 9 40