Section 2- 1964-70

Question 1

when was the race relations act?

Answer 1

1965

Question 2

when was the immigration act?

Answer 2

1968

Question 3

when was the abolition of death penalty?

Answer 3

1965

Question 4

when was the sexual offences act?

Answer 4

1967

Question 5

when was the abortion act

Answer 5

1967

Question 6

when was the divorce reform act?

Answer 6

1969

Question 7

when was birth control introduced?

Answer 7

1968

Question 8

What was Wilson reluctant to do in relation to the economy?

Answer 8

use deflation to deal with inflation as it could restart ‘stop-go’

Question 9

what other economic policies were considered by Wilson?

Answer 9

devaluation was considered to make British goods cheaper

Question 10

What was the DEA?

Answer 10

Department of Economic Affairs- set up and led by George Brown
setting growth targets, ‘economic planning councils’, and discussions with trade unions – entirely ineffective due to government rivalry

Question 11

When was the DEA abandoned?

Answer 11

1967

Question 12

What economic policies were actually used?

Answer 12

Introduction of prices and incomes policy, implemented by a Prices and Incomes Board, to keep down inflation

Roy Jenkins took over from James Callaghan as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1967 and used deflationary methods to improve balance of payments, achieving a surplus by 1969 but inflation still ran at 12%

Question 13

When was a surplus achieved?

Answer 13

1969, inflation still ran at 12%

Question 14

When was the sterling Crisis and what was it caused by?

Answer 14

1965 and 1966- national union of seamen strikes

Question 15

What did the outbreak of war in the middle east in 1967 cause?

Answer 15

an oil crisis and sterling plummeted – Labour also had to make defence cuts and introduce higher purchase restrictions and higher interest rates – return to ‘stop-go’​

Question 16

when was britain’s second failed attempt at joining the EEC?

Answer 16

1967

Question 17

when was Wilson’s pound in your pocket speech?

Answer 17

1967

Question 18

How did Wilson feel about trade unions?

Answer 18

positive- labour always had good relations with trade unions

Question 19

What did Brown introduce to deal with pay?

Answer 19

voluntary incomes and wages policy, agreed with union leaders and employers, intending to keep pay increases to 3.5%

Question 20

what tore the voluntary incomes and wages policy apart?

Answer 20

1966 strike by NUS
they asked for a pay increase of 17%, and pay had already increased by 10%​

Question 21

What was Wilson’s reaction to the NUS strike?

Answer 21

While the ship-owners were ready to make a deal, Wilson blocked this compromise, accusing NUS leaders of intending to harm Britain from information from MI5​

Afterwards, Wilson named 8 NUS leaders as having links to the Communist Party, which ended the strike but meant that Wilson lost public and party trust​

Question 22

how many days were lost to strikes?

Answer 22

tripling from 2 to 6 days between 1966 and 1970), the majority of the public saw these strikes as unacceptable​

Question 23

How did the government attempt to end the wildcat strikes?

Answer 23

1968, produced a white paper to make strikes more organised and therefore less disruptive​

Question 24

who passed the wildcat white paper?

Answer 24

Barbra Castle - In place of Strife

Question 25

What were the reactions to the in place of strife?

Answer 25

press and public were impressed by the strong stance however unions and workers were opposed to the measures and caused open revolt against the labour party

Question 26

How did Labour respond to the open revolts?

Answer 26

Castle and Wilson attempted to negotiate but were not successful and trade unions won

Question 27

when did ITV launch?

Answer 27

1955

Question 28

when was BBC2 launched?

Answer 28

1963, with colour - 1967

Question 29

when was BBC2 launched?

Answer 29

1963, with colour - 1967

Question 30

when did radio one launch?

Answer 30

1967- pirate radios launched to give people more option

Question 31

when was the divorce reform act?

Answer 31

1970

Question 32

when was the abolition of capital punishment?

Answer 32

1965

Question 33

when was the contraceptive pill introduced?

Answer 33

1968

Question 34

when was the dangerous drug act introduced?

Answer 34

1967

Question 35

1961-1965 (education)

Answer 35

4 universities opened

Question 36

sexual offences act

Answer 36

1967- made homosexuality decriminalised between two consenting men over 21

Question 37

who was the director- general of the BBC in 1960-69

Answer 37

Hugh Greene

Question 38

when were private radio stations launched

Answer 38

1967

Question 39

anti-Vietnam war riots

Answer 39

1965- teach-ins on Vietnam at Oxford and LSE
1968- March, anti war protests
battle of grosvenor square had over 200 arrests
1968 october- 300000 people protestested- peaceful

Question 40

when was the race relations act?

Answer 40

1965- forbade discrimination in public places- did not cover employment or housing until later on

Question 41

when was the commonwealth immigration act?

Answer 41

1968- limited the right to return for non-white commonwealth citizens after influx of kenyan asians

Question 42

‘rivers of blood’ speech

Answer 42

Enoch Powell- 1968

Question 43

who vetoed britain’s entrance to the eec

Answer 43

de Gaulle (president of france)

Question 44

what was Wilson’s stance about the USA?

Answer 44

pro-american, backed america in vietnam war even though british public did not support it

Question 45

withdrawal from east suez

Answer 45

*Britain needed to reduce military commitments to improve the economy but Wilson wanted to maintain a global presence​

*Britain maintained its nuclear deterrent and continued to deploy US Polaris missiles​

*MoD Denis Healey introduced a defence white paper in 1967 that proposed troop withdrawals from Aden, the Middle East, Malaysia and Singapore​

*After 1967 devaluation crisis withdrawal had to be accelerated to the end of 1971​

*Development of new warplane, TSR2, abandoned

Question 46

when was macmillan’s ‘wind of change’ speech

Answer 46

1960

Question 47

Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland divided into two

Answer 47

1963

Question 48

northern Rhodesia became Zambia and Nyasaland became Malawi

Answer 48

1964

Question 49

who was Ian Smith?

Answer 49

PM of Rhodesia

Question 50

what did Ian Smith do?

Answer 50

issued a Unilateral Declaration of Independence – challenging Labour government​

*Wilson tried to resolve the situation through negotiatations (on HMS Tiger in 1966, and HMS Fearless in 1968), and oil sanctions, but Rhodesia continued to trade with Mozambique and South Africa so this had little effect​

*Wilson’s diplomacy was ineffective as Smith believed that he simply had to wait for a Conservative government to achieve his goals​