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Britain theme 1 evidence Flashcards

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David Lloyd George (…) …

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Lib.
1916-22

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Andrew Bonar Law (…) …

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Con.
1922-23

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Stanley Baldwin (…) … … …

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Con.
1923-24
1924-29
1935-37

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James Ramsey MacDonald (…) …. …

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Lab.
1924
1929-35

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Neville Chamberlain (…) …

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Con.
1937-40

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Winston Churchill (…) … …

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Con.
1940-45
1951-55

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Anthony Eden (…) …

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Con.
1955-57

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Harold Macmillan (…) …

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Con.
1957-63

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Alec Douglas-Home (…) …

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Con.
1963-64

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Harold Wilson (…) … …

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Lab.
1964-70
1974-76

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Edward Heath (…) …

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Con.
1970-74

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James Callaghan (…) …

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Lab.
1976-79

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Representation of the People Act … (also called …)

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1918
Fourth Reform Act

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ROPA (1918) expanded franchise to men over … & women over …, expanded electorate from … to …, extended to … wc men

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21
30
over 7mil
over 21mil
5mil

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ROPA (1918) increased num constituencies … to …, most created in urban centres e.g. … & …

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670
707
Manchester
Birmingham

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ROPA (1918) enfranchised … women

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over 8mil

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Defence of the Realm Act …

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1914

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LG opposed Asquith in … -> Asquith’s removal along with … other MPs

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1916
142

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Asquith’s failed … to … vote of no confidence against LG in …

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293
106
1918

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1918 election coalition Lib.s … vote, Asquithians … = Lib.s only in office through reliance on …

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13.5%
12.1%
Bonar Law

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(1918 election) LG’s Lib.s only … seats, coalition Con.s …)

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133
335

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… ‘cash for honours’ scandal = LG sold … knighthoods & … peerages

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1922
1,500
over 100

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Arthur Henderson included in coalition gov.s under Asquith in … & LG in …

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May 1915
Dec 1916

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Henderson resigned from LG wartime coalition in … during …

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1917
Stockholm Conference

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new Lab. constitution adopted …

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Feb. 1918

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in … Lab. had … agents to campaign, Con.s had …

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1939
133
450

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by … women’s branches of Con. party had … members

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1930
over 1mil

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(20s & 30s) … gave full support to Con.s, magazines e.g. … demonised Lab

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The Times
Punch

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(20s) Con.s won … vote in …, … in … & … in …

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39%
1922
49%
1924
38%
1929

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1918 election Lab … vote

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22%

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first Lab gov led by … in …, forced to resign … but increased …

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Ramsay MacDonald
1923
1924
unemp benefit, housing, education

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Lab … of vote in 1910, … in 1929

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7.1%
37%

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econ. challenges essay!!

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.

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Lab conference … embodied public’s desire for change & manifesto … reflected public appetite

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May 1945
‘Let Us Face the Future’

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(post-WWII) … opinion poll = … respondents identified housing as central issue

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April 1945
41%

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(1945) James Callaghan’s election slogan in … = …

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Cardiff
‘we built the Spitfire, now we can build the houses’

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Beveridge Report … = … public approved, bestseller sold … copies

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1942
95%
600,000+

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(1945 election) … Con party agents abandoned constituency duties to join armed forces/war work

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246

39
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(WWII) Attlee …, … Minister for Labour & … Home Secretary

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Deputy PM
Ernest Bevin
Herbert Morrison

40
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(1945) Churchill increasingly influenced by friends & colleagues e.g. … & newspaper tycoon …

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Brendan Bracken
Lord Beaverbrook

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… broadcast Churchill declared socialist programme could only be realised with assistance of gestapo style apparatus

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4th June (1945)

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… claimed ghost of … lost 1945 election, not Churchill

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Harold Macmillan
Neville Chamberlain

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Lab 1945 election campaign led by only … full-time agents

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58

44
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Attlee … loan from US in …

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$3.75bn
1946

45
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Attlee devalued £ in … -> exports grew … by …

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1949
nearly 80%
1951

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… … described Churchill’s econ policies as … = combination Con Chancellor … & Lab Shadow Chancellor …

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1954
The Economist
Butskellism
R. A. Butler
Hugh Gaitskell

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Macmillan = …

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One Nation Tory

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(Heath failure) inflation … by … & unemp …

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15%
1972
6%

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Butler cut income tax twice in … & …

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1953
1955

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Churchill de-nationalised … & broke up … by …

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iron & steel
British Road Services authority
1953

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… Chancellor … & other key members of treasury resigned in protest to …’s high welfare budget

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1959
Peter Thorneycroft
Macmillan

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Macmillan … giveaway budget

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1959

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…’s Prices & Incomes Act … & … - first did …, second = …

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Wilson
1966
1967
enforced wage freeze for 6 months
only allowed wage increases if companies could prove output & productivity increasing

54
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Heath challenged consensus in … at … = wanted …

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1970
‘Selsdon Park’ meeting
‘quiet revolution’

55
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Wilson forced to make major cuts to welfare to receive … loan from IMF in … -> unemp more than doubled to … by …

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$3bn
1976
1.4mil
1979

56
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Attlee New Towns Act …

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1946

57
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Macmillan target of … houses per year

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300,000

58
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Wilson committed to …, … & building … homes a year

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full employment
improving pensions
500,000

59
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Heath’s … National Insurance Act extended pension rights to extra … people, established …, increased … & …

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1975
100,000
disability benefit
child allowances given to mothers
made rent subsidies available to low-income families in private accomodation

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Wilson - high taxation paid for … increase in pension rates, Invalid Care Allowance Act … & Universal Child Benefit Act …

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25%
1975
1975

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econ progress 1918-39!!

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.

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A-level History - Britain 1918-97 (7 decks)

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