Fact Test 5

Question 1

Before the GRA, how many MPs were there per counties?

Answer 1

8 counties had fewer than 30 electors and the South West had 1/4 of all MPs

Question 2

What did Pitt raise as part of the national revival?

Answer 2

Tax on luxury goods (hair powder, servants, horses)

Question 3

How much did the sinking fund reduce debt by and who was it controlled by?

Answer 3

almost £11 million, it was controlled by the board of commissioners

Question 4

Who published Reflections on the Revolution in France?

Answer 4

Burke in 1790, it attacked Paine’s the rights of man

Question 5

When/where was the National Convention of societies?

Answer 5

Dec 1793, Edinburgh, it was planned but closed by authorities.

Question 6

What two acts did Peel pass in Dec 1795?

Answer 6

Seditious meetings act and Treasonable practices act

Question 7

Who infiltrated the Pentrich Uprising?

Answer 7

Oliver the spy, he may have been an agent provocateur

Question 8

When/where did Henry Hunt speak and how many came to listen?

Answer 8

16th August 1819, 60,000 gathered peacefully to hear him speak at St Peter’s field

Question 9

Who ran the Birmingham Political Union?

Answer 9

Attwood/Place- they planned run on banks and tax boycotts in 1832

Question 10

How many MPs were lost after the GRA?

Answer 10

56 rotten boroughs lost both MPs and 31 lost one MP

Question 11

Who was peel the son of?

Answer 11

A Northern Cottage Magnate, non aristocratic

Question 12

How many whigs returned to the conservatives 1832-1837?

Answer 12

40

Question 13

Why did Peel decline to become PM in 1839?

Answer 13

The ladies of the bedchamber affair

Question 14

What did the companies act do? 1844

Answer 14

1844, made businesses publish accounts which gave investors more confidence

Question 15

What did peel ban that ended the repeal movement?

Answer 15

The monster meeting at Clontarf , O’connell was arrested

Question 16

What was the Maynooth Bill? 1845

Answer 16

1845- gave one off payment of £30,000 and upped annual grant to £26,000

Question 17

What did the 1834 poor law aim to do?

Answer 17

Bring standardisation and end ideas such as the Speenhamland system

Question 18

What did the 1834 poor law act do?

Answer 18

refused outdoor relief to the able bodied poor and introduced workhouses

Question 19

Who was a critic of the workhouses?

Answer 19

Richard Oastler, he organised demonstrations and riots

Question 20

How many people demonstrated in support of the Tolpuddle martyrs?

Answer 20

100,000 in 1834, organised by the GNCTU

Question 21

Where did russia claim up to in poland following WW2?

Answer 21

up to the Curzon line which was agreed at the Tehran conference

Question 22

By potsdam, where was the west border of poland?

Answer 22

On the Oder-Neisse line

Question 23

How much was being supplied to west berlin in the airlifts by April 1948

Answer 23

8,000 tonnes a day using 1,000 aircraft

Question 24

Who was the first leader of the GDR?

Answer 24

Ulbricht, a Stalinist

Question 25

What secured Ulbricht’s position of power?

Answer 25

The East German Uprising June 1953, argued that he deliberately allowed uprising to happen

Question 26

When was the Hallstein Doctrine announced

Answer 26

1955 by Adenauer, he refused to aknowledge GDR by others

Question 27

How many people fled the GDR in 1960 and 1961 ?

Answer 27

1960- 199,000

1961, a further 103,000

Question 28

What did Khrushchev use as an excuse to cancel the 1960 Paris Summit?

Answer 28

The shooting down of a U2 spy plane

Question 29

What was SALT 1

Answer 29

1972, Nixon and Brezhnev signed agreement reducing missiles and defences

Question 30

What massively improved travel to west berlin?

Answer 30

1971- four power treaty on berlin as part of Ostpolitik.

Question 31

Who tutored Alexander iii and Nicholas ii

Answer 31

Povedonostev- a strong autocrat/traditionalist

Question 32

When did the social democrats split?

Answer 32

1903, into the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks at London conference

Question 33

What did order no.1 do?

Answer 33

Gave the Petrograd soviet control over the military and restricted the power of the provisional government.

Question 34

The ideal soviet worker was exemplified through what?

Answer 34

The propaganda of the Stakhanovite movement.

Question 35

How many cinemas were there in Russia in 1917 vs Khrushchev

Answer 35

1917- 1,000

Khrushchev- 59,000

Question 36

What were the Soviet’s main newspapers?

Answer 36

Pravada

Izvestiya they were used for propaganda purposes

Question 37

How many killings did the SR’s do?

Answer 37

2,000 political killings including Plehve and Grand Duke Sergei

Question 38

Who was Milyukov?

Answer 38

Leader of the liberal kadets and became foreign minister for PG

Question 39

How much trade was the Nepman responsible for by 1923?

Answer 39

1923- 60% of trade through wheeling and dealing in

Question 40

How much was the rouble worth after the impact of the civil war.

Answer 40

Worth 1% of its value it’s 1917 value by 1920 (because of civil war)