Changing Political And Economic Enviroment

Question 1

What happened to the liberals?

Answer 1

Been dominant before 1914
However were now in decline 
Middle class and there artesian working class voters began to look elsewhere as they were no longer seen to be the party of social reform.

Question 2

What were the divisions between the liberals?

Answer 2

Many opposed the growth of the govt power especially since the introduction of conscription

Many liberals Felt when the coalition began in 1906 with conservatives DLG abandoned the principal a of liberals

Split party vote- DLG stood against many of the liberals opposed to him n party never recovered

Question 3

What did the Labour Party do from 1918?

Answer 3

Labour Party had evolved from trade unionists
Aimed to advance working men’s pagans working conditions

1906 they had nearly 1 million members and 29 MP’s in Parliament
1910-40 MP’s

Question 4

What did the representations of the people act do for the Labour Party?

Answer 4

Wages for MP’s so was no longer only for rich
British electorate Tripoli in size from 7.7 million to 21.4 million
Voter base grew drastically

Question 5

what did the Conservative party do in 1918

Answer 5

The electoral reform had forced the party to change and attract new supporters

By the end of the first world war of the Conservatives presented themselves as a party of the middle class

The Conservatives continued to support David Lloyd George until 1922
After 1918 many of the Conservative voters were new property owning women

Question 6

How did the 1918 and 1922 election because the decline of the liberal party

Answer 6

1918 David Lloyd George had effectively split the liberal party

Although the Liberal Conservative coalition won the Conservatives in the coalition were by far the most popular political party

Question 7

Who was David Lloyd George and what does he do?

Answer 7

1918 David Lloyd George was national hero

He made it clear he was not in support of the House of Lords

Question 8

How did the first Labour party rise to power in 1924

Answer 8

Ramsey McDonald was the first Leader. it was a minority government and the election was seen as deeply alarming
Members of the Conservative obsession accuse the party of supporting Soviet Russian regime and suggested they might be Soviet sympathisers among the cabinet

Question 9

What were the main problem is that Ramsay MacDonald and is government faced

Answer 9

McDonald was forced to make choices which affected the poorest of the voters this was in order to manage the threat of industrial action

As it was minority government they relied on the support of liberals therefore if the liberals took away their support the government would collapse

Question 10

What did Ramsay MacDonald achieve?

Answer 10

As the government only lasted for nine months it was too short to try to introduce much legislation

However he did pass a Housing act in 1924 which increased the amount of money available to local authorities to build homes for poor workers

Question 11

How did McDonald’s first government collapse

Answer 11

McDonald was accused by Conservative government of having secret Communist sympathies

The government collapsed in autumn 1924 following a motion of no confidence which McDonald’s only narrowly won

McDonald was forced to resign and call an election

Question 12

How did the general election of 1924 play out?

Answer 12

Conservative supporting newspaper claimed the letter from the Russian Communist revolutionaries sent a letter to the British communist party.
The letter was believed to tell British communist supporters to prefer to overthrow the government the Daily Mail hoped it would discourage people from voting labour or any other left-wing party

although the labour party did not collapse the Conservatives won the election

Question 13

How did the Conservative party dominate between 1924 1929?

Answer 13

The new Conservative leader was Stanley Baldwin he wanted to be able to appeal to all social classes

He did not believe in the class war that was formed under McDonald’s government

Question 14

What did McDonald do in his returned to power in March 1929?

Answer 14

McDonald’s was still relying on the liberal government to pass legislation he had more ambitious reforms planned and due to his good relationship with the liberals he was able to pass some social reforms

Question 15

The 1930 Housing act

Answer 15

By 1939 the act had cleared three quarters of 1 million slum homes and replaced them with modern homes

Question 16

The coal mines act of 1930

Answer 16

Attempted to ensure better pay for workers and more efficient hours and better working conditions

However the weakness of the legislation ensured that the mine owners could ignore it

Question 17

Amendment to the unemployment insurance act

Answer 17

Government power to create public works schemes to alleviate unemployment it was funded with £25 million of government money

Question 18

What were the economic issues that Ramsey McDonald and his government faced during 1931

Answer 18

There were rumours that the forthcoming budget would be unbalanced meaning the government had plans to spend more than it could afford leading to an increase in borrowing

This caused panic in American banks and panic selling of the pound exchanging it for other currencies had begun causing the pound to slump in value

Question 19

What did the government do to reassure investors and finansers that that money was safe

Answer 19

The government proposed they’re spending cuts and tax hikes

However the main solution was the introduction of a 10% unemployment cut this was expected to keep the value of the pound stable

Question 20

What came from the threat to Hot temper sent of employment to stable the pound

Answer 20

Another split was caused within the government the Labour Party a McDonald’s cabinet with spirit leading to the resigned of the government on August 24, 1931

Question 21

Who formed the national government and what did they plan to do between 1931 to 1945?

Answer 21

The national government won the election by huge majority but it was a consensus within it who won the vast majority of the seats

Although Ramsey continued as PM he was just a figurehead

At this point the Conservatives aren’t most of the control as they were in the majority of the seats in the house

Question 22

Britain emerged from the first ww victorious- who did they owe debts to? And how much?
What state did this leave the country in?

Answer 22

America
£3.2 billion
Britain lost world markets, trade was disrupted and they were left in a serious economic problems

Question 23

What happened room Donnells premiership during 1931 to 35

Answer 23

It was dominated by the economic challenges caused by the Great Depression
Ramsey had to deal with the threat of fascism at home and the rise of fascism in Europe
They said the government to make some moves to try and rearm

Question 24

What was the economic policy and its effects?

Answer 24

Low interest rates are going to stimulate and economic recovery and the national government popularity increased.
The national government re implemented the spending cuts the previous government had used.

McDonald became increasingly isolated and is replaces Prime Minister by Stanley Baldwin in 1935

Question 25

How to deliver party oppose the national government

Answer 25

The letter possibly can the official opposition of the government after we organising itself through the first half of the 1930s

It’s going to be a leader Clement Attlee and managed to get 154 seat in the 1935 general election

Question 26

How did the growth of extreme political parties come about

Answer 26

But Communist and fascist parties signing crease in the membership as more people became convinced Liberal democracy no longer have the answers to the economic crisis

By 1934 British union of Fascists had 50,000 members

In the same year the Communist Party of Great Britain had 9000 members however throughout the 1930s organise The National unemployed workers movement – this represented hundreds of thousands of unemployed men

Question 27

Who was Oswald Mosley?

Answer 27

Charismatic and Fokal Labour MP was inspired by the economic policy of Mussolini’s Italy a facist state
Mostly resigned from the national government and sense of his own organisation ‘the new party’
The Nipah to put forward a manifesto for change title of the Mosley memorandum which attracted bells people from left and right wing parties it demanded a call noted national economic plan to do with the economic crisis however many of Moses supposes from concept to my other parties that staff when Mosley establishes angry violent and forces called ‘biff boys’.

Question 28

How do use Oswald Mosley create his ultimate party

Answer 28

Arsenal drew all the fattest organisations in Britain together to form the British union of Fascists (BUF)
This car is a national government to pass the public order act in 1936 running groups and wearing uniforms and requiring permission for marches and demonstrations is called Moses movement to decline after 1936

Question 29

Stanley Baldwin’s premiership 1935-37

Answer 29

This was Baldwins third time into presidency he called a general election in October of the first year in power in his manifesto he pledged new houses jobs in government help for the most economically deprived parts of the country.

He also pledged to improve Britain’s defences although there was little desire among the public for rearmament

Question 30

Chamberlains premiership 1937 to 1940.

Answer 30

Boldon resigned in 1937 due to ill health making way for his Chancellor Neville Chamberlain to become prime minister trembling as prime minister during a period of economic recovery falling unemployment and stable prices

The national government under tremblant was facing a breakdown of international orders which made war increasingly likely
However the anti-war movement in Britain was growing in strength of that so which made rearming more difficult

Question 31

Churchill coming to power from 1940 to 1945

Answer 31

Church is what I’m covenant was a mix of Conservative Labour and Liberal politicians.

Question 32

The rise of consensus politics and political challenge

Answer 32

Both Labour and Conservative party is of the early 1970s shared a consensus they both believed in:
Attempting to achieve full employment even that this might allow a degree of inflation

A mixed economy with heavy industry railways in other parts of national infrastructure in state ownership

Are well Thursday in national health service

Cooperation between the government industry and the trade union is in managing wages and prices

Question 33

The 1945 general election

Answer 33

The Labour Party signals its intention to withdraw from the correlation in July 1945 a general action is called