Politics

Question 1

How many knighthoods and peerages were sold 1922?

Answer 1

1500 Knighthoods
100 Peerages

Claimed he was no friend to the house of lords so bad

Question 2

How did the Conservatives rebrand 1920s?

Answer 2

For the MC and WC who wanted to better themselves

Question 3

Why were the liberal split?

Answer 3

Half wanted to create a centre party with the conservatives (Lloyd George)

lib-cons won landslide 1918

Question 4

Where did the conservatives meet 1922 to vote against the coalition?

Answer 4

Carlton club

Question 5

How many MPs were the liberals reduced to 1922

Answer 5

53

Question 6

Why did Macdonald not raise taxes?

Answer 6

He did to want to be seen as radical socialists by MC

Also wasn’t radical because needed the support of Liberals

Question 7

What the only act passed by Labour 1924?

Answer 7

1924 housing act (increased money for low income homes)

Question 8

Why was there a motion of no confidence against Macdonald 1924?

Answer 8

Attorney general Patrick Hastings dropped charges against socialist newspaper the workers weekly for incitement to mutiny by John Cambell

Didn’t help he had been trying to ease tension with soviets.

Question 9

What as the Zinoviev letter?

Answer 9

Fake letter released saying a communist party in uk was planning to overthrow gov

Question 10

What was Stanley’s view on class?

Answer 10

Thought class war was damaging so discouraged cons criticising LBP as communists

Question 11

What led to Baldwin needing to change industrial relations laws?

Answer 11

1926 general strike

Question 12

What did Baldwin do to reduce union power 1927?

Answer 12

1927 amendment to 1906 trade dispute act

outlawed general strikes and sympathetic strikes

Made TU members have to opt in to pay political levy for LP lost 35% of funding

Question 13

What acts were passed under Macdonald 1929-31?

Answer 13

1930 housing act 750,000 slum houses replaced with modern homes by 31

Coal mines act 1930 tried to ensure better pay + pits(weak legislation)

Public work schemes created under amendment to unemployment insurance act

Question 14

What was the economic blizzard?

Answer 14

1931- may report

rumours of unbalanced budget so gov began borrowing more

US banks start panic selling currency, value slumps

Question 15

How did the 1931 gov (LBP) respond to economic blizzard?

Answer 15

Either iintroduce tariffs or 20% cut unemployment benefits. They cut unemployment insurance 10% (caused hardship)

Led to LBP resignation

Question 16

Why did votes for LBP lessen during election for NG?

Answer 16

People thought they were puttinng their own interests above nations.

Painted as ‘running away’ from difficult decisions by Conservatives.

Seen to be rejecting NG

Question 17

How did the NG respond to 30s depression?

Answer 17

Public sector pay cuts by 10%

Reaction was mutiny in Royal Navy (Invergordon)

also limited number of tariffs

Question 18

Why did the economy recover by 1933?

Answer 18

Due to low interest rates

Ending of the gold standard

Question 19

How many members did the BUOF have 1934?

Answer 19

Oswald Moseley
50,000 members
But fell apart when ‘Biff’ boys discovered who were tasked to attack opponents.

Communist had 9000

Question 20

What caused growing extreme political ideas in the thirties?

Answer 20

the growing depression as people thought democracy would not solve it.

Question 21

What did the BUOF cause from GOV?

Answer 21

Public orders act 1936

Banned uniform and made demonstrations need permission

Question 22

What did people join for disarmament?

Answer 22

Peace Pledge union

League of nations

from those who remembered the war

Question 23

What led to rearment 1934?

navy expanded…

Answer 23

Germany leaving the World disarmament conference in 1933

they wanted equal arment

Question 24

What made Attlee’s collective security less possible?

Answer 24

Hitler breaking Treaty of Versailles 1936 (Rhineland)

Split over rearmament or disarmament as left labour thought it made it more likely

Question 25

What led to Chamberlains resignation?

Answer 25

Hitler invading poland led to war.

Chamberlain’s failed expenditure to help save Norway 1940

Question 26

What did Churchill do during his premiership?

Answer 26

Included labour

‘blood, toil, tears and sweat’ speech

25th may Halifax offered settlement deal for Germany but Churchill said we would be a ‘slave state’

Question 27

What was the consensus on?

Answer 27

Full employment
A mixed economy (heavy industry under state)
Welfare state + NHS
Good co-operation between GOV and TU