Topic 1 - Dates Flashcards
When was Churchill prime minister (second term)?
1951-55
when was anthony eden prime minister
1955-57
when was harold macmillan prime minister
1957-63
when was alec douglas home prime minister
1963-64
when did churchill end rationing
mid-1954
when did macmillan publish his booked which was influential for conservatives
1938 - ‘The middle way’
when did the tories lose the london suburb of North Lewisham to labour
february 1957
when did macmillan sack a third of his cabinet
July 1962
when did the vasall affair take place
March 1963 - Kim Philby flies from Moscow to the Middle East
when did macmillan deliver his promise of 300,000 homes per year as minister for housing
1953
by what year had conservatives built 1.7 million homes
1964
from what year were all primary school students given a bottle of milk each day
1952
what year was the guillebaud committee set up to report on the finances of the NHS
1953
when was ruth ellis hanged for murder
july 1955
when was the clean air act
1956
when did butler make £134m of tax cuts
april budget 1955
when did heathcoat amory lower standard income tax from 42.5% to 38.75%
1959 budget
when did macmillan say the people of britain have ‘never had it so good’
july 1957
when was the pay pause introduced by selwyn lloyd
july 1961
when did unemployment reach 800k
1962
when were the tax cuts of nearly £300m
1963 budget
when did 57 bevanites vote against government rearmament programme
march 1952
when did nye and 62 other MPs abstain on a debate regarding H-bombs
spring 1955
when did a row break out at the labour party conference regarding a unilateral defence policy
october 1960
when did gaitskell become labour party leader
1955
when did bevan nye die from cancer
july 1960
when was there a sterling crisis under thorneycroft
summer 1957
when did macmillan’s entire treasury resign
jannuary 1958
when did lloyd ask the IMF for a loan
1961
when was the Beecham report published
1963
when were maudling’s tax cuts of nearly £300 million
1963 Budget
when was equal pay secured for teachers
1952
when was equal pay secured in the civil service
1954
when did windrush dock in the UK
1948
when did the teddy boys begin a regime of racial violence against west indians
1958
when did Sir Oswald Mosely emerge from exile to compete in a general election
1959
when was kelso cochrane murdered
17th May 1959
when did notting hill riots start
30th August 1958
when was the act to limit immigration
1962
when was there fighting in brighton between mods and rockers
may 1964
when was national service introduced
1948
when was indian independence finalised
1947
when was the european coal and steel committee set up
Treaty of Paris 1951
when did eden take over from morrison as foreign secretary
1951
