Eden

Question 1

who is prime minister in 1955

Answer 1

Eden

Question 2

how many seats dis the conservatives win

Answer 2

345

Question 3

what TV station launched in 1955 to rival BBC

Answer 3

ITV

Question 4

when Attlee retired from being labour leader who was competing for the role

Answer 4

Bevan and Gaiskell

Question 5

who became labour leader after Attlee

Answer 5

Gaitkell

Question 6

how many people were unemployed

Answer 6

200 000 or less than 1%

Question 7

what was the give away budget for the 1955 election

Answer 7

£134 million

Question 8

what did the French and English try to invade

Answer 8

Suez Canal

Question 9

why did they invasion stop

Answer 9

international pressure from USA

Question 10

what crisis did the Suez invasion cause

Answer 10

financial

Question 11

whose reputation did the invasion sour

Answer 11

Eden

Question 12

what did the invasion show

Answer 12

Britains illusions of imperial power

Question 13

when did the EEC form

Answer 13

1956

Question 14

why did Eden get replaced by Macmillan

Answer 14

due to health and his reputation being destroyed by the Suez invasion