harold macmillan (1957-1963)

Question 1

1958 CND demonstration.

Answer 1

8000 people at Aldermaston research base.

Question 2

Mutual Defence Agreement (1958).

Answer 2

US agreed to share nuclear technology with Britain, making Britain reliant on US weaponry.

Question 3

1958 Nottinghill Riot.

Answer 3

Racial tensions peaking in Nottinghill between mainly black immigrant population and white population.

Question 4

How many immigrants in Britain by 1958.

Answer 4

21,000.

Question 5

How many Britons emigrating a year by 1958.

Answer 5

1.32 million.

Question 6

Inward vs Outward immigration during 60s.

Answer 6

1.25 million inward; 1.92 million outward.

Question 7

Oswald Mosley.

Answer 7

MP and founder of the British Union of Facists, promoting violence towards African-Caribbean’s.

Question 8

Majority by 1959.

Answer 8

100 seat.

Question 9

Satire boom.

Answer 9

Began in 1960, mocking the Establishment and the government.

Question 10

George Blake scandal.

Answer 10

1961 exposure of a British politican working for the USSR.

Question 11

Why did Macmillan apply to the EEC in 1961.

Answer 11

• Boost industrial production.
• Increase trade.
• Stimulate economic growth.
• Appease the USA trying to link to Europe through Britain.

Question 12

Britain in the 1961 Berlin Crisis.

Answer 12

Did not provide military support.

Question 13

Britain in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

Answer 13

“Bystanders” - Peter Thorneycroft.

Question 14

‘Nigh of the Long Knives’ (1962)

Answer 14

Macmillan’s reshuffling of his Cabinet.

Question 15

John Vassal scandal.

Answer 15

1962; British politican exposed for handing information to the USSR.

Question 16

Commonwealth Immigration Act (1962).

Answer 16

Temporary provision for controlling immigration into the UK.

Question 17

Why and when was Penguin books taken to court.

Answer 17

1962, for publication of ‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’.

Question 18

Cuban Missile Crisis.

Answer 18

1962.

Question 19

When and why was Britain rejected from the EEC.

Answer 19

1963, veto-d by Charles de Gaulle because of personal prejudice to the British and issues with government MPs.

Question 20

Profumo Affair (1963).

Answer 20

Government Secretary for State of War exposed for having an affair with a sex worker also in contact with USSR government members.

Question 21

Who takes over from Macmillan in 1963.

Answer 21

Lord Hume.

Question 22

Beeching Report (1963).

Answer 22

Recommending closure of over 30% of railroads.

Question 23

When does Kenya gain independance.

Answer 23

1963.