Prime Ministers of Interwar Years

Question 1

1908-1916

Answer 1

Herbert Asquith

Question 2

1916-1922

Answer 2

David Lloyd George

• Coupon Election
• Splits Liberal Party
• Cash for honours

Question 3

1922-1923

Answer 3

Andrew Bonar Law

Question 4

1923-1924

Answer 4

Stanley Baldwin

Question 5

1924-1924

Answer 5

Ramsey Macdonald

- First Labour PM

Question 6

1924-1929

Answer 6

Stanley Baldwin

Question 7

1929-1935

Answer 7

Ramsey Macdonald

• Minority govt.
• National Govt. forms in 1931

Question 8

1935-1937

Answer 8

Stanley Baldwin

Question 9

1937-1940

Answer 9

Neville Chamberlain

- Followed appeasement policy towards Hitler + rise of Nazism in Germany

Question 10

1940-1945

Answer 10

Winston Churchill

- Celebrated wartime leader

Question 11

1945-1951

Answer 11

Clement Attlee

• “Let us face the future”
• Welfare state creation

Question 12

1951-1955

Answer 12

Winston Churchill

Question 13

1955-1957

Answer 13

Anthony Eden

- Suez crisis leads to his resignation

Question 14

1957- 1963

Answer 14

Harold Macmillan

• Never had it so good
• Corporatism

Question 15

1963-1964

Answer 15

Alec Douglas-Home

Question 16

1964-1970

Answer 16

Harold Wilson

• White Heat
• In Place of Strife

Question 17

1970-1974

Answer 17

Edward Heath

• Beginning of end of consensus politics
• Who Governs Britain?
• Oil crisis
• 3 day week

Question 18

1974-1976

Answer 18

Harold Wilson

Question 19

1976-1979

Answer 19

James Callaghan

• IMF crisis
• Winter of Discontent