Economic questions

Question 1

Percentage of houses privately owned during consumerism?

Answer 1

60%

Question 2

When did Macmillan’s chancellor set up the NEDC?

Answer 2

1962

Question 3

What was the NEDC?

Answer 3

attempt to get economic cooperation between governments

Question 4

sales of private quadroupled from 1.5 to?

Answer 4

5.5

Question 5

By 1961, how many people were living in Britain?

Answer 5

51 m

Question 6

When did Britain form the EFTA?

Answer 6

1959

Question 7

Butlers give-away budgets provided middles class with how much tax cuts?

Answer 7

£134 m

Question 8

What year did Britain get rejected from EEC?

Answer 8

1963

Question 9

Why did Britain get rejected from EEC?

Answer 9

de Gaulle vetoed - didn’t want 2 powers

Question 10

How much did the birth rate increase by?

Answer 10

2 m

Question 11

What did Thorneycroft want to limit?

Answer 11

wage increase

Question 12

What were Britain spending too much on?

Answer 12

defence

Question 13

How much money were Britain spending on defence?

Answer 13

1.7 b

Question 14

When was the financial crisis?

Answer 14

1957

Question 15

Which country had the poorest GDP rate?

Answer 15

Britain