Conservative domination 1951-64, Dates and Stats Flashcards
Who reformed conservative party finances and organisation prior to 1951 election?
Lord Woolton
When was the Korean War?
June 1950 to July 1953
Percentage of votes won in ‘51 by:
Labour
Conservative
Liberal
-48.8%
-48%
-2.5%
Liberal votes in:
1945
vs
1951
‘45: 2.1 mil
‘51: 750,000
Seats won in ‘51 by:
Labour
Conservative
Labour: 295
Conservative: 321
Lab had more votes but less seats.
Peak of unemployment in 1950s?
500,000 - low compared to modern standards.
Percentage of home owners in:
1951
1964
1951: 25%
1964: 44%
How many schools built 1951-64?
6,000
When was the Buttler Act?
1944
Teenage groups in 50s and 60s
Mods and the Rockers
Teddy Boys
When where the ….. race riots:
Nottinghill
Nottingham and Wolverhamptom
Nottinghill - 1958
other two 1959
‘Butskellism’
indicated little difference between the economic policies of R.A. Butler and Hugh Gaitskell
1955 unemployment
1.9%
When was the Hospital Plan
1962
Hire Purchase Act
1958
When was the M1 motor ways built
1950s- finished in 1959.
When was the Beeching report
1963
Avarage annual GPD growth rates during the period:
Britain
Germany/Japan
Brit - 2-3%
5%
How much spent of defence expenditure?
10% of GDP, the annual total value of goods and service
Coal production:
1951
1960s
200 million tons in 1951
150 million tons in early 1960s
Unemployment in 1963?
800,000
When was Churchill peacetime prime minister?
1951-55
Conservative
When was Eden prime minister?
1955-57
Conservative
When was the Suez Crisis?
1956
Egyptian President during Suez Crisis?
Nasser.
When was Macmillan Prime Minister?
1957-63
Conservative
When was the national Service expanded under Macmillan?
1959
When was ‘The wind of change’ speech?
1960
-African Independence
Cabinet Shuffle under Macmillan
1962
-Nicknamed ‘The Night of Long Knives’
economic downturn under Macmillan?
-1961
-Balance of Trade deficit - importing more than exporting
Cuban Missile Crisis?
1962 - Britain univolved - not a power.
Profumo Affair?
1961
Defence Minister Profumo and Prostitute
When was Home Prime Minister?
1963-64
Conservative
Who was Labour Leader in 1955?
Hugh Gaitskell
Bevan (Labour) Speech about public ownership of industry?
‘In Place of Fear’ 1952
Labour Party vote for Disarmament?
1960
policy reversed
1959 election votes for:
Con
Lab
Lib
1959 –
13.7 million voted conservative
12.5 million voted Labour
only 1.6 million Liberal votes
decline from the ten percent who voted Liberal in 1945.
Most of Lib votes went too Conservative.
However small gap - Lab only got 1.5 mil less popular vote.
However got 107 less seats.
Who won 1964 election?
Labour
Votes in ‘64 won by:
Conservative
Labour
Liberal
Conservative: 12,001,396 (304 seats)
Labour: 12,205,814 (317 seats)
Lib: 3,092,876 (9 seats)
Leader in ‘64 election:
Conservative
Labour
Con: Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Scottish aristocrat)
Labour: Harold Wilson 47 years - politically cunning (perhaps untrustworthy).
Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1963?
What was his policy?
Reginald Maudling - cut taxes in 1963.
Affect of Maudling’s tax cut in ‘63?
-trade deficit of 800 million
however
-unemployment fell E.g. dropped from 900,000 unemployed in Feb 1963 to 300,000 unemployed ion July 1964.
Notorious result in Smethwick constituency for Labour in 1964?
-Near Birmingham
-conservative candidate ran an overtly racist campaign and succeeded in turning and 3500 Labour majority into a Tory victory by 1700 votes.
What age voters was Labour more popular with in 1964?
Under 44.
Election results in middle class Orpington in 1962?
-Show switch from Conservative to Liberal - not Labour.
-conservative majority of 14,700 overturned by victorious liberal candidate with 7850 majority.
How many more seats won by liberal in 64 than in 59?
only 3 - but their vote nearly doubled.
Leading to Labour government.
