AIC CONTEXT

Question 1

Key context listed

Answer 1

-Titanic
-WW1
-Women’s rights
-labor strikes
-the Great Depression
-JB Priestley political

Question 2

Titanic

Answer 2

Largest ship at time
-3 ‘classes’ of tickets echoed social classes
-first class passengers deck to themselves
-2nd class had restaurants and smoking rooms
-3rd class lower down in boat

‘Unsinkable’
-sank on first voyage (Southampton to New York) killing over 1500

-symbol of old class system that should disappear

Question 3

Women’s rights

Answer 3

-1912 no vote
-no benefits system so had to turn to prostitution to survive
-expected to marry few opportunities of work
-patriarchy control
-women’s social and political union founded 1903 and achieved right to vote 1918
-ward gave them opp to work and prove

Question 4

Labor strikes

Answer 4

-1930-1940 many workers strike
-war proved importance of contribution of working class people

Question 5

Great Depression

Answer 5

-worst economic downturn of industrialized world 1929-1939
-began stock market crash In wall street 1929 and wiped out investors

Question 6

World wars

Answer 6

-brought people from different classes together in army
-helped show people were the same and after people wanted changes to continue

Question 7

JB priestly

Answer 7

-passionate socialist and beloved privileged should use advantages to help poor

-worked as regular radio broadcaster (very influential in ww2 when expressed faith in ordinary people)

-in last year of war he was writing AIC we a contribution to public understanding that might lead to labor victory after war (happened 1945)