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What is the post-war consensus?

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A broad agreement by the 3 parties

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What does “from the cradle to the grave” mean?

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How the welfare state will look after the people

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What is public sector housing?

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Council houses

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What was the Korean War?

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War against North and South Korea

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What was “New Britain”?

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Equal opportunities and decline of deference

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Who are Satirists?

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People who mock politicians and figures

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What does NATO stand for? What is it?

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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Western military alliance

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What was the Cold War? When did it take place?

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War with no actual fighting

1945-89

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What was the peace caravan?

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A group that protested against nuclear weapons

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What is Stop-go? What government used it and when?

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Interest rates being used to control economic growth

Tories 1951-64

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What is Butskellism?

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Similarities in economic Labour and Conservative policies

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What was stagflation?

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Inflation at an economic downturn

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What was the Marshall Aid?

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US aid to help economic recovery

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What was the New Commonwealth?

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Former colonies in Asia and Africa

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What was the “baby boom”?

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The large number of children born after WW2

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What were conscripts?

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Men in forced service

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Who were Local Shop Stewards?

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Union officials with power in their workplace

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What was the Sterling?

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British currency

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What was the Trade Union Congress (TUC)?

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Main trade union organisation

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What MPs introduced Private Members’ Bills?

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Backbench MPs

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What was the “pay pause”?

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A period of no pay increase

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What was the Vietnam War?

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War between North and South Vietnam

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What does UDI stand for? What did this mean?

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Unilateral Declaration of Independence

Illegal declaration of independence

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What is meant by a cooling-off period?

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The time between the calling of a strike and the actual strike

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What is meant by a White Paper?

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Document of government policies and proposals

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What is meant by a “white backlash”?

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Reaction of immigration under the New Commonwealth

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What was the New Commonwealth?

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Former colonies in Africa and Asia

28
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Who were the Royal Ulster Constabulary? What religious group dominated them?

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Northern Ireland police force

Protestants

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What is meant by second-wave feminism?

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1960s feminism which sought more than just political rights

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What is meant by a “clean-up” campaigner?

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Someone who tried to improve “morality” by attacking the media

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What is meant by the “New Right”?

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Less government intervention and more responsibility to the people

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What is meant by internment?

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Imprisonment without trial

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What is meant by direct rule?

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Direct NI rule after Stormont parliament suspension

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What is meant by Hard-line Protestants?

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Protestants who opposed any compromise with Catholics

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What was the National Union of Miners (NUM)? Under who did it become more left-wing?

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Trade union that represented miners

Arthur Scargill

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What is meant by flying pickets?

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Strikers who prevented people going to work or moving goods

37
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What is Stop and Search? Who was it primarily used against?

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The right of police to investigate a suspect of a crime

Black people

38
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What is meant by sovereignity? What did Eurosceptics fear?

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Issues where power lies

Too much power would be given to the EU

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What is the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP)?

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An EEC agricultural policy where farmers were subsidised if produce couldn’t be sold at a favourable price

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What was the Social Contract?

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An agreement over wage restraints between Labour and the trade unions

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What was British Leyland?

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Large-scale car manufacturer

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What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?

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An organisation designed to loan money to struggling countries

43
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What was the “Winter of Discontent”?

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The industrial disputes over 1978-79

44
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What is a referendum?

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National vote

45
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What is meant by bureaucracy?

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Those involved in administrations and paperwork

46
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What is meant by the “first past the post” system?

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System where the candidate with the most votes are elected regardless of whether they have the majority vote

47
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Who were Militant Tendency?

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Radical left-wing group that infiltrated Labour

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What is meant by unilateral nuclear disarmament?

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Where a country wants to get rid of nuclear weapons in the hope other countries follow

49
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What is meant by mass picketing?

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Protests outside workplaces to prevent people going to work

50
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What is the National Coal Board (NCB)?

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Organisation that manages the coal mining industry

51
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What is “supply-side economics”?

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Where the economy’s supply-side is encouraged for growth

52
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What is popular capitalism?

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Theory that everyone should be able to own shares and property

53
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What is the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)?

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Precursor to the Euro that tied member currencies with the Deustchmark

54
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What is a flat-rate tax?

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Where everyone pays the same amount

55
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What is a Eurosceptic?

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Politicians opposed/wary of the EU

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What is meant by sleaze?

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Corruption/sex scandals - particularly associated with Major’s government

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What is “New Labour”?

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Reform and modernisation of Labour under Tony Blair

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What is meant by Cool Britannia?

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Making Britain seem more fashionable through promotion of popular culture

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What is institutional racism?

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An organisation with deeply embedded racism

60
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What is a “glass ceiling”?

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Discrimination in the workplace which isn’t formally acknowledged

61
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What is Daesh?

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IS movement

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What is the European Economic Community (EEC)?

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Economic alliance introduced in 1957

63
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What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?

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Measuring a country’s wealth through production

64
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What is meant by the “permissive society”?

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Liberalisation in the 1960s

65
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What is the Suez Canal?

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Canal that connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea

66
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What is meant by wets and dries?

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Term used to describe Tories who supported/opposed Thatcher’s policies

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What is meant by white heat?

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Term referring to science and technology development in the 1960s

A-Level History: The Making Of Modern Britain - 1951-2007 (40 decks)

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