The Twentieth Century

Question 1

Describe Titanic

Answer 1

• 10th April 1912- set sail from Southhampton
• unsinkable
• 2,224 passengers, life-boats available for half that number
• late 14th April- hit ice
• early 15th April- sank
• 1,513 passengers and crew members died

Question 2

Describe the effects of conscription

Answer 2

women took over men’s jobs

Question 3

Describe Maud Pember Reeves

Answer 3

• 1913

* Round About a Pound a Week

Question 4

Describe the employment shift

Answer 4

• unemployment caused by Depression

* new industries- manufacture of motor cars and washing machines created jobs

Question 5

Describe the 60s

Answer 5

• Harold Macmillan- you’ve never had it so good
• 1964- 90% British homes owned a tele
• Maggie T’s ‘right to buy’

Question 6

Describe the Means Test

Answer 6

• 1931
• government struggling to pay its way
• test undertaken before 3 million unemployment could collect benefits
• family income and savings taken account before you could receive unemployment pay
• very unpopular, demeaning