Social - Key Facts

Question 1

Growth of the British population

Answer 1

50 Million in 1951 to 56 Million in 1975

Question 2

Group that formed to carry out direct action against fox hunting

Answer 2

Hunt Saboteurs

Question 3

Book by Rachel Carson that made an impact on people’s view of environmentalism

Answer 3

Silent Spring

Question 4

Radical envionmentalism groups

Answer 4

• Greenpeace
• Amimal Liberation Front

Question 5

Progressive Acts that were met with media hostility

Answer 5

• Abolition of Capital Publishment
• The Abortion Act
• The Sexual Offences Act
• Divorse Reform

Question 6

Term used to describe the decline of conventional moral standards

Answer 6

Permissive Society

Question 7

Important moral campaigner

Answer 7

Mary Whitehouse

Question 8

Group that the Mary Whitehouse set up

Answer 8

National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association

Question 9

Number of members in the National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association

Answer 9

100,000

Question 10

Protests against the Vietnam War

Answer 10

• Vietnam Solidarity Campaign
• Battle of Grosvenor Grove

Question 11

Amount of people that took part in the anti-Vietnam War demonstration in October 1968

Answer 11

30,000 People

Question 12

Book by Betty Freidan

Answer 12

Feminist Mystique

Question 13

Act that provided contraceptives to women for the first time

Answer 13

National Health Service (Family Planning) Act 1967

Question 14

Name of Women liberation groups

Answer 14

• Women’s Nation Co-ordination Committee
• National Women’s Liberation Conference

Question 15

Act that established the precedent that work of a wife should be taken into account during divorce settlements

Answer 15

Matrimonial Property Act 1970

Question 16

Act that established the principle of equal pay for equal work

Answer 16

Equal Pay Act 1970

Question 17

Percentage of women in higher education

Answer 17

28%

Question 18

Percentage of women that reached the top managerial posts

Answer 18

5%

Question 19

What event that added to the controversy of the suspension of the Death Penalty

Answer 19

Moors Murders - Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

Question 20

What did the Divorse Reform Act add

Answer 20

No fault divorce

Question 21

Number of marriages that ended in divorce

Answer 21

Nearly 10 in every 1,000

Question 22

Number of illegal abortions performed each year before the legalisation of abortion

Per Year

Answer 22

100,000 to 200,000

Question 23

Number of women admited to hospital after backstreet abortions

Per Year

Answer 23

35,000

Question 24

Number of women that died between 1958 and 1960 due to backstreet abortions

Answer 24

82

Question 25

Pressure Group that had campaign for the legalisation of abortion

Answer 25

Abortion Law Reform Association

Question 26

Event that is said to have shifted public opinion on abortion

Answer 26

Thalidomide Disaster

Question 27

Number of abortions after the Abortion Act

Answer 27

17.6 per 100 in 1975 - 141,000

Question 28

Catholic MP that wrote an essay entitled 'The Pope, the Pill and the People'

Answer 28

Norman St John-Stevas

Question 29

Pressure Group was set to oppose any legalisation of abortion

Answer 29

Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child

Question 30

Labour backbencher that propose the Sexual Offences Act 1967

Answer 30

Leo Abse

Question 31

What did the Sexual Offences Act 1967 Decriminalise

Answer 31

Homosexuality

Question 32

Act that made it unlawful to posses drugs such as cannabis and cocaine

Answer 32

Dangerous Drugs Act 1967

Question 33

Increase of cocaine and heroin addiction

Answer 33

Ten times more prevelant

Question 34

Lifestyle that emerged during this period

Answer 34

Hippie lifestyle

Question 35

Suggestions of the Wootton Report of 1968

Answer 35

Legalising soft drugs like canabis

Question 36

Lead supporter for the comprehensive system

Answer 36

Anthony Crossland

Question 37

Number of pupils being educated in comprehensive schools in 1964

Answer 37

1 in 3 pupils

Question 38

Name of the Report that Crossland published to convert to comprehensive schools

Answer 38

Circular 10/65

Question 39

Number of authories by 1970 that had failed to comprehensivise

Answer 39

8

Question 40

Number of comprehensive schools in 1970

Answer 40

1,145

Question 41

Findings of the Robbins Report

Answer 41

Found that Britain lagged behind France, Germany and the United States for work and science

Question 42

What replaced Colleges of Technology

Answer 42

Polytechnics

Question 43

Number of students the Open University had in 1980

Answer 43

70,000

Question 44

What was London capital of in the world

Answer 44

Fashion

Question 45

Percetnage of the population that had a TV in their home in 1971

Answer 45

91%

Question 46

New Media outlets that were launched

Answer 46

* ITV * BBC Radio One * The Sun

Question 47

Play that took advantage of the end of theatrical censorship

Answer 47

Hair

Question 48

Percentage of journeys that cars accounted for by 1974

Answer 48

77%

Question 49

Name of the airplane company founded in 1964

Answer 49

Britannica Airways

Question 50

Percentage of people that went on package holidays in 1971

Answer 50

8.4%

Question 51

Race Relations Act 1965

Answer 51

Forbade discrimination in public places on the grounds of colour, race or ethnic origins

Question 52

Race Relations Act 1968

Answer 52

This banned racial discrimination in housing, employment, insurance, and other services

Question 53

What event became an annual celebration of ethnic minorities

Answer 53

Notting Hill Carnival

Question 54

Number of people that objected to working with black people or Asians

Answer 54

1 in 5

Question 55

Number of people that disapproved of mixed marriages

Answer 55

9 out of 10

Question 56

Board that was set up to deal with racial housing and employment complaints

Answer 56

Race Relations Board

Question 57

Number of cases dismissed by the Race Relations Board

Answer 57

734

Question 58

Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968

Answer 58

Limiting the 'right to return' to Britain of non-white commonwealth citizens

Question 59

Names of racist groups

Answer 59

* National Front Socialist Movement * National Front * British National Party

Question 60

Speech that Enoch Powell gave

Answer 60

Rivers of Blood

Question 61

Percentage of people that agreed with Powell's speech

Answer 61

75%

Question 62

Number of people that died in the Aberfan Disaster

Answer 62

116 children and 28 adults

Question 63

Groups that striked during this period

Answer 63

* Seamen * Dockers

Question 64

White paper introduced by Barbra Castle

Answer 64

In Place of Strife

Question 65

Rebellions against In Place of Strife

Answer 65

* Jack Jones - Head of the Transport and General Workers' Union * James Callaghan * At least 50 Labour MPs