Political Developments in the Inter-war years Flashcards

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When was the representation of the people act and what did It introduce

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  1. it introduced votes for all men over 21 and all women over 30. Elections were to be held on a single day. However, it maintained FPTP.
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When was the second representation of the people act and what it did introduce

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  1. it introduced votes for all men and women over 21. However, peers, lunatics and felons were excluded from voting
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What did the electorate grow to 1929

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it went from about 8 million in 1918 to about 28 million in 1929

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what were the issues with FPTP

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in 1918, Lloyd George and his supporters got almost 70% of the seat share with 47% of the vote

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what happened in the 1922 election

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the conservatives got 37% of the vote and 330 seats; Labour gained 29.4% of the vote and 142 seats; the Liberals (combining 3 groups) gained 29.1% of the vote and 116 seats.

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what happened in the 1929 election

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Labour won fewer votes than the Conservatives, but more seats

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what is the first election after WW1 referred to as

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the coupon election

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who won the 1918 election

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the wartime coalition led by Lloyd George

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what was the coalition’s majority

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322

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what did conservatives start to view Lloyd George as

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a liability

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where did the Conservatives choose to follow Lloyd George

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at the Maurice debate

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why was it called a coupon election

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Where Bonar Law and Lloyd George agreed they would not oppose each other’s candidates to ensure maximum seats

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what were the issues of the Lloyd George government

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the demobilisation of troops, strikes and industrial unrest, government income and expenditure and tensions between himself and the Conservatives

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what was the honours scandal

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where Lloyd George was accused of selling honours to raise money - he sold honours to a south African fraudster

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When did Lloyd George resign

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1922

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who did the king choose as Lloyd George’s long term replacement

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Stanley Baldwin

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what was the first thing Baldwin did

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he called an election, in order to secure a mandate

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what was the result

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conservatives gained 258 seats, labour 191 and liberals 159. This was not a majority

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when was the first Labour government

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1924, although it was a minority

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what was the fall of Labour in 1924 due to

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the Campbell case

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what was the Campbell case

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where J.R Campbell was charged with inciting mutiny but was excused after pressure from the Labour government

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What did the daily mail do during the election

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printed a forged letter claiming to be from Zinoviev, calling on the communists to follow instructions from Russia and carry out a revolution

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what did the daily mails article do

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won the conservatives 100 seats

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who won the 1924 election

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the conservatives and Baldwin

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who did Baldwin controversially appoint
Churchill as Chancellor
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what was Baldwin's second government defined by
the general strike of 1926
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what did the conservatives do wrong in the 1929 election
their safety first slogan
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what did Labour promise in 1929
to reverse the controversial 1927 trade disputes act.
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what was the 1927 trades disputes act
it banned secondary picketing
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who won the 1929 election
Labour with a minority
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what happened in 1929
the wall street crash
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what did Labour propose in response to the WSC
severe pay cuts for public sector workers (including a 20% pay cut for teachers). This was following a large withdrawal of Gold from the country by foreign investors
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what was the vote on the 10% cut
it passed by 11 votes to nine
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why was Macdonald called the Lucifer of the Left
MacDonald remained as PM after the divisive cut. He would lead what became known as the National Government
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what was the composition of the National Gov cabinet
4 labour, 4 conservative and 2 Liberal
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what was a prime concern of the National Government
to maintain the gold standard and stop the devaluation of the pound. They failed to do so
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what economic strategy did the National Government follow
Keynesian economics
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who won the 1931 election
the national government
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what had the National Government basically become in 1931
a conservative government
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who won a majority in 1935
the national government. However, MacDonald had lost his seat and was unwell. Baldwin become PM, being replaced by Neville Chamberlain in 1937