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The Prime Ministers 1918 -79 Flashcards

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DLG

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1916-1922

COALITION LIBERAL w/ conservatives

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DLG: Key Points

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  • Split liberal party to form a coalition w/ tories to strengthen support
  • cash for peers scanal
  • promised a ‘land fit for heros’ post-ww1
  • Retrenchment
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Bonar Law

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1922 - 1923

CONSERVATIVE

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Bonar Law: Key Points

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  • Two-party system begins as Liberal go into decline

* Electoral reform/re-brand means the tories become an MC & WC (for the aspirational WC) party

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(1st term) Baldwin

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1923 - 24

CONSERVATIVE

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(1st terms) Baldwin: Key Points

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  • PM because Bonar Law resigned
  • called a GE to seek support for a policy of trade protection
  • failed to win a majority so a few months later his gov resigned
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(1st term) MacDonald

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1924-24

LABOUR

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(1st term) MacDonald: Key Points

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  • Minority Gov (coalition w/ liberals)
  • strained relations w/ The National Executive Committee of the Labour party
  • led to several notions of no confidence
  • The Campbell Case
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(2nd term) Baldwin

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1924-29

CONSERVATIVE

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(2nd term) Baldwin: Key Points

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Lots of achievements 
* expansion of pensions & housing
* local gov reform 
* 1928 - women 21+ got the right to vote 
* 1925: return to the GOLD STANDARD 
"Saftey First" approach
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(2nd term) MacDonald

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1929-31 LABOUR

1931 - 35 NATIONAL GOV

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(2nd term) MacDonald: Key Points

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  • minority gov - support from liberals
  • cooperation allowed for social reforms (1930 Housing act, 1930 Coal mines act, unemployment insurance act)
  • called a GE & remained as head of the national gov
  • gold standard abandoned 1931
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(3rd term) Baldwin

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1935 - 37

NATIONAL GOV

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(3rd term) Baldwin: Key Points

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  • rise in extremism in Britain & across Europe (Hitler & Mussolini)
  • Severe housing shortages
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Chamberlain

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1937 - 40

NATIONAL GOV

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Chamberlain: Key Points

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  • policy of appeasement - a desire for peace
  • debate whether to begin rearmament or not
  • economic recovery: falling unemployment & stable prices
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(1st term) Churchill

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1940 - 45

NATIONAL/WARTIME GOV

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(1st term) Churchill: Key Points

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The nation loved his heroicness as he promised “blood, toil, tears and sweat”

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Attlee

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1945-51

LABOUR

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Attlee: Key Points

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  • landslide victory
  • ‘New Jersualm’
  • Creation of the Welfare State - NHS
  • reform of voting system (got rid of plural voting)
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(2nd term) Churchill

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1951 - 55

CONSERVATIVE

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(2nd term) Churchill: Key Points

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  • post-war consensus
  • Butskellism
  • Keynesian economics
  • resigns due to ill health - his foreign affair guy stepped up
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Eden

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1955 - 57

CONSERVATIVE

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Eden: Key Points

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  • gained more seats than help in 1951
  • achieved lowest unemployment figures in recent history
  • Suez crisis
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Macmillan (supermac)

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1957 - 63

CONSERVATIVE

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Macmillan: Key Points

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  • ‘stop-go economics’
  • ‘night of long knives’
  • Profumo scandal
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Douglas-Home

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1963 - 64

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(1st term) Wilson

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1964 - 70

LABOUR

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(1st term) Wilson: Key Points

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  • devalued the £
  • sg economic & social reforms
  • Abortion Act 1967
  • Sexual Offenses Act 1967
  • In place of strife 1969
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Heath

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1970 - 74

CONSERVATIVE

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Heath: Key Points

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  • promised radical political change at the beginning
  • tax cuts for rich & public spending cuts
  • Inflation on the RISE
  • 3 DAY WORKING WEEK (1973 - 74)
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(2nd term) Wilson

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1974 - 76

LABOUR

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(2nd term) Wilson: Key Points

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  • hung parliament (meant they had to call a GE which they won by a slender majority)
  • the ‘social contract’ = a policy attempting to return to corporatism
  • Party divided into three factories:
    1. centre right
    2. ‘soft’ left
    3. ‘hard’ left
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Callaghan (Sunny Jim)

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1976 - 79

LABOUR

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Callaghan: Key Points

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  • proposed a ‘siege economy’
  • began to abandon key aspects of the post-war economic consensus
  • Ruskin College Speech (1976)
  • Winter of discontent (1978 - 79)
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Thatcher

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1979 - 90

CONSERVATIVE – NEW RIGHT

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