Modern

Question 1

What did the Liberal Part do to improve health ?

Answer 1

Passed laws to make life better for the poor

Question 2

Give two examples of Liberal laws passes in Early 1900s

Answer 2

Old Age Pension
Free school meals

Question 3

How was religion challenged?

Answer 3

People turned to science to explain things

Question 4

What was the NHS?

Answer 4

National Health Service

Question 5

Why was the NHS set up?

Answer 5

To solve the nation’s poor health
Provide free healthcare for all

Question 6

What work did people do in the early 1900s?

Answer 6

Working class had manual jobs

Question 7

How much of the population lived in towns/cities?

Answer 7

Half the population

Question 8

How did work change after 1950s?

Answer 8

Less manual jobs

Question 9

What is the problem with a growing population?

Answer 9

Very demanding on welfare state and NHS

Question 10

What did the government do to improve housing in 1909?

Answer 10

Banned back-to-back housing

Question 11

What did the 1919 Housing Act do?

Answer 11

Council housing would be funded by taxes
Set standards for new houses: Water supply, preventing damp

Question 12

What was important about the 1930 Housing Act?

Answer 12

Landlords had to sell slums to councils to build nicer houses

Question 13

How did housing change after WWII?

Answer 13

More high rise flats built

Question 14

How did Margret Thatcher cause housing issues?

Answer 14

In 1980 she allowed people to buy their council houses so their weren’t enough left for the people who really needed them

Question 15

What changed with food?

Answer 15

Cheaper imports led to varied diet
Convenience food was unhealthy
Supermarkets opened

Question 16

How did rationing improve health?

Answer 16

People were growing their own food , which was healthier

Question 17

What was BSE?

Answer 17

A disease spread from cows in 1996
Could affect the brain

Question 18

Why did cases of rickets increase?

Answer 18

Less fresh fruit was eaten
Lack of Vitamin D from living in dark alleys

Question 19

What was smog?

Answer 19

Smoky fog caused by factories burning too much coal

Question 20

What was the danger of smog?

Answer 20

Led to lung diseases like bronchitis

Question 21

When was the Great Smog in London?

Answer 21

1952

Question 22

What was the Clean Air Act?

Answer 22

Factories and homes had to burn smokeless fuels

Question 23

How many people died of Spanish Flue globally?

Answer 23

50 million

Question 24

State symptoms of Spanish Flu

Answer 24

High temp
Bleeding ears and nose
Chills

Question 25

What did James Niven do?

Answer 25

Successfully slowed spread in Manchester
Advice in newspapers, closed schools+ cinemas

Question 26

What spreads HIV

Answer 26

Sexual contact
Sharing needles

Question 27

What did the media report on for AIDs

Answer 27

Called it the ‘Gay Plague’

Question 28

How did religion respond to AIDs?

Answer 28

Said it was a punishment for being gay or using drugs

Question 29

How did people respond to AIDs?

Answer 29

Stopped doing mouth-to-mouth
Parents took children out of school

Question 30

How did understanding of AIDs grow?

Answer 30

Provided clean needles
Free testing for HIV
Princess Diana shook hands with victims

Question 31

What medication slows AIDs?

Answer 31

Retrovirals

Question 32

What did the Royal College of Physicians do in 1962?

Answer 32

Published a report on the dangers of smoking

Question 33

How has the government tried to stop smoking?

Answer 33

1963 banned cigarette ads on TV
1907 banned it in public