Conservative gov 51-57

Question 1

Historiography

Answer 1

• David Goldsworthy ‘keeping change within bounds’
• David Mcintyre ‘the ambiguous 1950s’
• Martin Lynn ‘determined attempt at imperial reassertion’
• L.J. Butler ‘limiting change where feasible’
• Hubbard argues that the Churchill and Eden governments viewed economic prospects much less favorably thus led to a turn away from the colonies and imperial preference
• Politician Denis Healy argues that the Suez Crisis marked the end of Empire

Question 2

Hardline conservatives

Answer 2

• Lord Salisbury, President of the Council 1952-1957
• Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden
• Oliver Lyttleton colonial sec 1951-54
• Alan Lennox-Boyd colonial sec from July 1954
• Suez Group founded 1951

Question 3

Colonial policy: imperial revival

Answer 3

• CAF formaton 1953
• Mau Mau, 1954 Swynnerton land reforms
• Counterinsurgency in Malaya
• Colonial defence
• 1956 Suez Crisis

Question 4

Colonial policy: retreat

Answer 4

• Egypt, October 1954 Britain agree to withdraw troops

- Gold Coast, 1951 constitution and 1954 constitutional change

Question 5

Impact of settlers

Answer 5

-Federation of CAF 1953

Question 6

Primary Sources

Answer 6

• Foreign Office document ‘The Problem of Nationalism’ mid-1952
• Lord Salisbury wrote in 1953 about ‘Primitive Peoples’ and losing ‘the black countries and white countries if allowed to be hustled’

Question 7

Slowing down pace of decolonisation

Answer 7

• Lennox-boyd’s Qualitative democracy proposed in 1955

- Churchill and Eden disinterested in colonial policy

Question 8

Impact of Suez Crisis on Conservative party

Answer 8

• Split conservative party

- Suez Groups immediately grew to over 100 members