Topic 1 - Dates

Question 1

When was Churchill prime minister (second term)?

Answer 1

1951-55

Question 2

when was anthony eden prime minister

Answer 2

1955-57

Question 3

when was harold macmillan prime minister

Answer 3

1957-63

Question 4

when was alec douglas home prime minister

Answer 4

1963-64

Question 5

when did churchill end rationing

Answer 5

mid-1954

Question 6

when did macmillan publish his booked which was influential for conservatives

Answer 6

1938 - ‘The middle way’

Question 7

when did the tories lose the london suburb of North Lewisham to labour

Answer 7

february 1957

Question 8

when did macmillan sack a third of his cabinet

Answer 8

July 1962

Question 9

when did the vasall affair take place

Answer 9

March 1963 - Kim Philby flies from Moscow to the Middle East

Question 10

when did macmillan deliver his promise of 300,000 homes per year as minister for housing

Answer 10

1953

Question 11

by what year had conservatives built 1.7 million homes

Answer 11

1964

Question 12

from what year were all primary school students given a bottle of milk each day

Answer 12

1952

Question 13

what year was the guillebaud committee set up to report on the finances of the NHS

Answer 13

1953

Question 14

when was ruth ellis hanged for murder

Answer 14

july 1955

Question 15

when was the clean air act

Answer 15

1956

Question 16

when did butler make £134m of tax cuts

Answer 16

april budget 1955

Question 17

when did heathcoat amory lower standard income tax from 42.5% to 38.75%

Answer 17

1959 budget

Question 18

when did macmillan say the people of britain have ‘never had it so good’

Answer 18

july 1957

Question 19

when was the pay pause introduced by selwyn lloyd

Answer 19

july 1961

Question 20

when did unemployment reach 800k

Answer 20

1962

Question 21

when were the tax cuts of nearly £300m

Answer 21

1963 budget

Question 22

when did 57 bevanites vote against government rearmament programme

Answer 22

march 1952

Question 23

when did nye and 62 other MPs abstain on a debate regarding H-bombs

Answer 23

spring 1955

Question 24

when did a row break out at the labour party conference regarding a unilateral defence policy

Answer 24

october 1960

Question 25

when did gaitskell become labour party leader

Answer 25

1955

Question 26

when did bevan nye die from cancer

Answer 26

july 1960

Question 27

when was there a sterling crisis under thorneycroft

Answer 27

summer 1957

Question 28

when did macmillan’s entire treasury resign

Answer 28

jannuary 1958

Question 29

when did lloyd ask the IMF for a loan

Answer 29

1961

Question 30

when was the Beecham report published

Answer 30

1963

Question 31

when were maudling’s tax cuts of nearly £300 million

Answer 31

1963 Budget

Question 32

when was equal pay secured for teachers

Answer 32

1952

Question 33

when was equal pay secured in the civil service

Answer 33

1954

Question 34

when did windrush dock in the UK

Answer 34

1948

Question 35

when did the teddy boys begin a regime of racial violence against west indians

Answer 35

1958

Question 36

when did Sir Oswald Mosely emerge from exile to compete in a general election

Answer 36

1959

Question 37

when was kelso cochrane murdered

Answer 37

17th May 1959

Question 38

when did notting hill riots start

Answer 38

30th August 1958

Question 39

when was the act to limit immigration

Answer 39

1962

Question 40

when was there fighting in brighton between mods and rockers

Answer 40

may 1964

Question 41

when was national service introduced

Answer 41

1948

Question 42

when was indian independence finalised

Answer 42

1947

Question 43

when was the european coal and steel committee set up

Answer 43

Treaty of Paris 1951

Question 44

when did eden take over from morrison as foreign secretary

Answer 44

1951