Harold Macmillan Flashcards

1
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What year is it seen that Macmillan’s political skills began to decrease?

A

1962

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2
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When did Macmillan resign?

A

October 1963?

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What was Macmillan’s famous line he used to excuse political ups and downs?

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“Events, dear boy, events”

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4
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I) What was the biggest concern at the beginning of the 1960s?
II) what did this lead to?
III) What was the result?

A

I) The economy
II) An application to join the EEC in 1961
III) They were rejected in 1963

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I) What was the “Night of the Long Knives”?
II) When did it happen?
III) What was it’s effect?

A

II) Macmillan reshuffled his cabinet, sacking a third of it
II) July 1962
III) The cabinet became weaker

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How did Macmillan’s image change, and eventually damage him, in the 60s?

A

He was seen as out of touch, which was re-enforced by his marriage into the aristocracy

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Give 2 examples of Spy Scandals during the Macmillan administration

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1) George Blake was convicted of being a soviet spy in 1961

2) John Vassall was blackmailed, on the grounds of homosexuality, into passing information to the Soviet Union

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What was the Profumo affair

A

Secretary for War John Profumo had an affair with 19-year-old model Christine Keeler and lied to the commons about it

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What was the effect of the Profumo affair

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I) The effects were short-lived BUT

II) It re-enforced the idea that the conservative government were out of touch

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What was the final thorn in the side of the MacMillan administration?

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Serious illness led to his resignation in October 1963

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I) Who succeeded MacMillan?

II) Why was this a strange choice?

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I) Sir (Lord) Alec Douglas-Home

II) He was a compromise between Rab Butler and Lord Hailsham

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