edward heath (1970-1974)

Question 1

Positives of Heath.

Answer 1

• Educated at state school.
• Cheif negotiator 1961-1963.
• Detailed plan.

Question 2

The Selsdon Park Programme.

Answer 2

Reforms to amend manifesto, law, trade union relation, lame-duck industry, etc, in order to end the post-war consensus.

Question 3

The ‘Barber Boom’.

Answer 3

Anthony Barber’s changes in public spending and tax cuts, causing rapid inflation.

Question 4

When was Rolls Royce nationalised.

Answer 4

1971.

Question 5

When was the Yom Kippur war.

Answer 5

1973.

Question 6

What did the Yom Kippur war cause.

Answer 6

• Oil exports stopped.
• Prices for oil increased by 4x.
• National Union of Miners demanded pay rise.

Question 7

The Industrial Relations Act (1971).

Answer 7

• Abolished National Board for Prices and Incomes.
• Set up an Industrial Relations Court.
• Strike ballots.
• ‘Cooling off’ periods between strikes.

Question 8

How many workings days lost in 1972 due to strikes.

Answer 8

23,000,000.

Question 9

When was the second oil crisis.

Answer 9

1973.

Question 10

When and why did Heath introduce the three day working week.

Answer 10

1974, to conserve electrisity.

Question 11

Results of the 1974 general election.

Answer 11

Labour won 5 more seats than the Tories, leading to hung parliment.

Question 12

Why did policy under Industrial Relations Act not work.

Answer 12

Trade Union Congress and Confederation of British Industry opposed.

Question 13

The Industry Act (1972).

Answer 13

Tried to involve the government in the Trade Union Congress and the Confederation of British Industry with decisions in wages, prices, investments, etc.

Question 14

What did many of the Conservative party view of the Industry Act (1972).

Answer 14

Disapproved.

Question 15

Who did Heath back in the ‘Troubles’, over what issues.

Answer 15

Brian Faulkner, in policies like curfews and internment.

Question 16

How many of those interned between 1971-1975 were Catholics.

Answer 16

95%.

Question 17

Bloody Sunday (1972).

Answer 17

The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Associations protest was fired on by the army, with 26 shot and 13 killed.

Question 18

What was the IRA’s response to Bloody Sunday.

Answer 18

Burning down the British Embassy.

Question 19

Why was 1972 the worst year for the Troubles.

Answer 19

• 1000 explosions.
• 10,000 shootings.
• 480 deaths.

Question 20

When did Heath suspend the Stormont Parliment and bring in direct Westminster rule.

Answer 20

1972.

Question 21

When was the Sunningdale agreement formed.

Answer 21

1973.

Question 22

What was the Sunningdale Agreement.

Answer 22

A power sharing plan with support from the Social Democratic Labour Party, the Alliance and the Ulster Unionist Party rule.

Question 23

When did the Ulster Unionist Party pull out of the Sunningdale Agreement.

Answer 23

1973.

Question 24

Why did the Ulster Unionist Party stop supporting the Conservatives.

Answer 24

Because of the Sunningdale Agreement.

Question 25

When did the NHS made the contraceptive pill more avaliable.

Answer 25

1971.

Question 26

When was the disruption of the Miss World Contest protest.

Answer 26

1970.

Question 27

Where were the hot-spots of feminist protests in 1971.

Answer 27

London and Liverpool.

Question 28

What were the two main ideologies in feminism that developed.

Answer 28

- Radical feminism. - Socialist feminism.

Question 29

What were women permitted to do after 1971 without a male guarantor.

Answer 29

Take out a mortgage.

Question 30

The Immigration Act (1971).

Answer 30

People entering Britain would need a guaranteed job and one British-born grandparent.

Question 31

How many Ugandan Asians entered Britain in the early 70s.

Answer 31

28,000.

Question 32

When and why was there a rush of Bangledeshi immigrants.

Answer 32

1974, due to Bangladesh break from Pakistan.

Question 33

When did Friends of the Earth come into Britain.

Answer 33

1971.

Question 34

When was The Peoples Party formed.

Answer 34

1973.

Question 35

How many candidates did The Peoples Party put up in 1974.

Answer 35

5.

Question 36

When was Britain accepted to the EEC.

Answer 36

1973.

Question 37

Who was the French leader by 1973 that wanted Britain in the EEC.

Answer 37

Georges Pompidou.

Question 38

What did many of the Conservatives think of the EEC, with a main critic example.

Answer 38

- That it was surrendering British sovereginity. - Enoch Powell saw Heaths signing of the Treaty before its debate was betrayal.

Question 39

Why did Heath reject bonding oppirtunities with Kissinger.

Answer 39

Believed America should negotiate with Europe directly instead of through Britain.

Question 40

What was Heaths position on Vietnman and Nixon.

Answer 40

- Got on with Nixon. - Supported the USA's intervention in Vietnam.

Question 41

Why did Britain and Europe reject USA's ask to use NATO airbases to airlift supplies to Isreal during the Yom Kippur War.

Answer 41

To prevent putting oil supply at risk.

Question 42

When did Heath make visits to China.

Answer 42

1974.