Kq1

Question 1

Gallipoli campaign?

Answer 1

• Taking Constantinople,
• FAILURE, blamed for poor organisation
• Churchill was demoted afterwards

Question 2

Membership of trade unions by the end of WWII ?

Answer 2

8 million

Question 3

Trade union activity 1919?

Answer 3

Glasgow- wage strike (troops sent in)

Sept 1919- rail strike (50,000 troops)

Question 4

Was Churchill right to be worried about social unrest in 1919?

Answer 4

Russian revolution 1917
Italy 1922
Germany 1918

But no revolutionist groups in Britain

Question 5

Churchills view on communism

Answer 5

Despised communism

“Strangle communism in the cradle”

Question 6

Why did Churchill hate communism?

Answer 6

• ^ trade unions
• Easter rising
• Russian Bolshevik Revolution

Question 7

Easter rising 1916?

Answer 7

Rise of republicans in Ireland
(Extreme nationalists supplied by Germany)

Easily suppressed -> caused British backlash

Question 8

What did BR do about Russian revolution?

Answer 8

Sent troops and £20M to assist whites

By 1920 intervention ended

Question 9

Why did Churchill feel the need to assist the whites?

Answer 9

Morale obligation as they helped BR during the war

Question 10

What was the initial problem in Ireland?

Answer 10

|Act of union abolished parliament

|-> Westminster governed all of Ireland

Question 11

When and what was the home rule act?

Answer 11

1912-gave Ireland parliament back

Question 12

Government of Ireland act 1920?

Answer 12

Separated British and Irish Parliament from N&S

Question 13

Anglo- Irish war 1921-22

Answer 13

Civil war between Britain and IRA

• Churchill deployed black n tans
• brutality drove Irish to IRA

Question 14

Churchills attitudes to Ireland by 1922?

Answer 14

Showed political acumen

• couldn’t defeat IRA
• BR reputation suffering

Question 15

Anglo Irish treaty?

Answer 15

South Ireland became free state

Question 16

Gold standard?

Answer 16

Foundation of economic prestige and stability

-came off it during the war

Question 17

What was economic problem in 1925?

Answer 17

Churchill brought back the gold standard

-over valued it to dollar

Question 18

Effect of return to the gold standard?

Answer 18

Very negative

• exports more expensive
• wages decreased
• coal (biggest export) fell

Question 19

When was the general strike?

Answer 19

3rd - 12th May 1926

Question 20

Reasons for general strike?

Answer 20

• Gold standard 1925

- Sankey commission 1919

Question 21

What was the Stanley commission 1919?

Answer 21

Recommended nationalisation of coal industry, LG ignored it

Question 22

What was the Samuel commission 1926?

Answer 22

Govt subsidy should be withdrawn

-wages should be reduced to save profits

Question 23

What did govt do to prepare for general strike?

Answer 23

• Stock piled coal

- patriotic volunteers

Question 24

Churchills attitude towards the general strike 1926?

Answer 24

• despised it
• Bolshevik inspired
• no sympathy for miners
• did try to conciliate afterwards

Question 25

Why did the general strike fail?

Answer 25

• govt planned

- too expensive for trade unions

Question 26

What happened after the general strike?

Answer 26

1927- illegal to general strike

• conciliated miners
• labour 1929 victory

Question 27

Abdication crisis affect on Churchill?

Answer 27

Made him very unpopular amongst people as he supported the King

Question 28

Ton-y-pandy?

Answer 28

1910-Welsh miners strike

     Churchill sent tanks and troops in. Violent response.