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History Paper 2: Section 3 - Macmillan > Social - Key Facts > Flashcards

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What aimed to change the Lords

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Attendence expenses

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Name of the act that created life peers to bring new blood and eminent people into the Lords

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Life Peerage Act 1958

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Name of the cases that hightened controversy around the death penalty

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  • Bentley
  • Evans
  • Ellis
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Who led the pressure group against the death penalty

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Arthur Koestler

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Name of the Labour MP that introduced a Private Memebers bill to suspend executions

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Sidney Silverman

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Name of the act which significantly reduced the categories of murder and allowed the defence of ‘diminished responsibility’

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Homocide Act 1957

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Name of the act that aimed to rationalise the Lunacy Acts and destigmatise mental health

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Mental Health Act 1959

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Act that decriminalised attempted suicide

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Suicide Act 1961

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9
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Act that backfired massively

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Rent Act 1957

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Name of the horrible landlord

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Peter Rachman

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Name of the report that increased the school leaving age

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Crowther Report 1959

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12
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Number of new hosuing units built under the Conservatives

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1 million

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Number of slum dwellings cleared under the Conservatives

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253,000

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Number of miles of motorway built under the Conservatives

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260 Miles

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Act that gave government aid to certain areas

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Local Employment Act 1960

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Number of jobs the Local Employment Act created

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900,000

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Name of the act which aimed to moderise the railways

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Transport Act 1962

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Name of people involved in political corruption of the ‘New Towns’

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  • T Dan Smith (Mr Newscastle)
  • John Poulson
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19
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Percentage rise in education spending

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10%

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Name of the report which recommended a massive expansion of higher education

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Robbins Report 1963

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21
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Number of universities founded in 1961 to 1965

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7

22
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Number of immigrants arriving in Britain in 1961

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136,000

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Name of the act which meant immigrants could only enter if they had jobs or skills needed

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Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962

24
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Number of immigrant coming into the UK in 1964

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46,626

25
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Number of emigrants in the 1960s

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1.92 Million

Inward Migration was 1.25 Million

26
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Nickname of economically insecure, white, working class, young men

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Teds

27
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Name of Racist Groups

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  • White Defence League
  • League of Empire Loyalists
  • National Socialist Movement
28
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Name of the Cambridge graduate that could not get a job

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Eric Braithwaite

29
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Who was murdered in Notting Hill in May 1959

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Kelso Cochrane

30
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Event that highlighted the racist employment practices in the UK

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Bristol Bus Boycott

31
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Conservative MP that played the ‘race card’ in the Smethwick Constituency in the 1964 General Election

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Peter Griffiths

32
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Right Wing Politicians

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Oswald Mosley

33
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How much did crime increase

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More than doubled

34
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Name of the ‘respectable’ criminals

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Kray Twins

35
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Number of teenager in Brtiain in 1959

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5 million - 10% of the Population

36
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Name of the two youth cultural sub groups

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  • Mods
  • Rockers
37
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Where did riots between the Mods and Rockers in May 1964

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  • Clacton
  • Margate
  • Brighton
38
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Books that illustrated social realism

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  • A Clockword Orange - Anthony Burgess
  • Cathy Come Home - Ken Loach
39
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Name of media that broke down social taboos

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  • Taste of Honey - Shelagh Delaney
  • Victim
40
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Name of media that increased satire

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  • Beyond the Fringes
  • Private Eye
41
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Name of the Trial which ended press censorhip in the UK

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Lady Chatterley Trial

42
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Who led the campaign against immorality and depravity

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Mary Whitehouse

43
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Number of nobility in Macmillan’s government

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  • Duke
  • Marques
  • Three Earls
43
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Number of nobility in Macmillan’s government

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  • Duke
  • Marques
  • Three Earls
44
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Name of the sociologists that attacked British class

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  • Richard Hoggart
  • CP Snow
45
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Things that increase women’s lives in the home

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Labour-saving devices

46
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Percentage of households owning a washing machine and refrigerator

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54% and 58%

47
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Name for the Hotpoint washing machine

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The Liberator

48
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Women’s movement that was beginning to pick up

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Second-Wave feminism

49
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Benefit that was paid to families that had stay at home mothers

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Family Allowances

History Paper 2: Section 3 - Macmillan (6 decks)

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