Topic 1 - Dates Flashcards

1
Q

When was Churchill prime minister (second term)?

A

1951-55

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2
Q

when was anthony eden prime minister

A

1955-57

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3
Q

when was harold macmillan prime minister

A

1957-63

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4
Q

when was alec douglas home prime minister

A

1963-64

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5
Q

when did churchill end rationing

A

mid-1954

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6
Q

when did macmillan publish his booked which was influential for conservatives

A

1938 - ‘The middle way’

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7
Q

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

A

february 1957

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8
Q

when did macmillan sack a third of his cabinet

A

July 1962

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9
Q

when did the vasall affair take place

A

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

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10
Q

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

A

1953

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11
Q

by what year had conservatives built 1.7 million homes

A

1964

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12
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from what year were all primary school students given a bottle of milk each day

A

1952

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13
Q

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

A

1953

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14
Q

when was ruth ellis hanged for murder

A

july 1955

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15
Q

when was the clean air act

A

1956

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16
Q

when did butler make £134m of tax cuts

A

april budget 1955

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17
Q

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

A

1959 budget

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18
Q

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

A

july 1957

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19
Q

when was the pay pause introduced by selwyn lloyd

20
Q

when did unemployment reach 800k

21
Q

when were the tax cuts of nearly £300m

A

1963 budget

22
Q

when did 57 bevanites vote against government rearmament programme

A

march 1952

23
Q

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

A

spring 1955

24
Q

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

A

october 1960

25
when did gaitskell become labour party leader
1955
26
when did bevan nye die from cancer
july 1960
27
when was there a sterling crisis under thorneycroft
summer 1957
28
when did macmillan's entire treasury resign
jannuary 1958
29
when did lloyd ask the IMF for a loan
1961
30
when was the Beecham report published
1963
31
when were maudling's tax cuts of nearly £300 million
1963 Budget
32
when was equal pay secured for teachers
1952
33
when was equal pay secured in the civil service
1954
34
when did windrush dock in the UK
1948
35
when did the teddy boys begin a regime of racial violence against west indians
1958
36
when did Sir Oswald Mosely emerge from exile to compete in a general election
1959
37
when was kelso cochrane murdered
17th May 1959
38
when did notting hill riots start
30th August 1958
39
when was the act to limit immigration
1962
40
when was there fighting in brighton between mods and rockers
may 1964
41
when was national service introduced
1948
42
when was indian independence finalised
1947
43
when was the european coal and steel committee set up
Treaty of Paris 1951
44
when did eden take over from morrison as foreign secretary
1951
45