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Section 3 - 1929 Election
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- 1Why election significant?-First time all population voted
-Last three horse race in inter war years - 2Opposition to flapper vote from who? What did they fear?-Conservatives and conservative newspapers
-Socialist takeover - 3What won Balfour over to equal voting? Why did he do it?-Women mostly voted conservative and played a key role in funding
-Realised would lose a lot of support if didn't - 4Conservative party in election campaign?-'Safety first' with Baldwin as 'the man you can trust'
-Baldwin presented himself as moderate and principled - 5Why was the Labour Party confident before the election?-Showed they could handle it in 1924
-Hadn't supported general strike - 6Labour promises in campaign?-Moderate policies - 'socialist commonwealth'
-Labour led the way for unions to try and achieve stuff through them rather than through strikes - 7Signs that Liberals would do well?-Won 6 by election 1927-29
-Had £40k of LGs money to fund them - put up over 500 candidates vs only 300 in previous
-LG had reorganised party - 8Liberal slogan in campaign?-'We can conquer unemployment'
-Most radical party - hoped to employ scheme of public works to reduce unemployment - 9why was 1929 a turning point for Labour?-Officially second party
- 10Why did labour win?-MacDonalds moderate approach had convinced people he could be trusted
-'Safety first' not appealing - didn't seem to be much danger
-First past the post bad for Liberals
-Unemployment main issue - people thought sticking with same government wouldn't change this - 11Labours aims in govn?-Moderate and cautious
-Gain more experience and remove any doubt about Labours capabilities
-Raise school leaving age, build council houses, take control of transport system, decrease unemployment - 12Key innovation in cabinet?-First female member - Margaret Bondfield
- 13Describe the turning points for political parties in 1929?-Libs - irreversible decline
-Labour - ascent to top, new age of socialism
-Conservatives - had broad based support, needed to modernise - 14Public opinion on state intervention?-Necessary
-All three parties had issued major social reforms since 1906
-Now expected as part of a war on poverty - 15Main economic problems in 1929? Why was this?-Gold standard
-Decline of staple industries
-Unemployment
-Fundamental flaws in economy existed before WW1 and were enhanced by the war - 16Describe the international situation in 1929?-Growing economic and cultural influence of USA
-Revolution in Russia inspired fears of the same in the UK and produced anti labour propaganda
-Germany rejoined international scene but still issues ie disarmament
-Britains empire hard to maintain - 17Britains role in the world?-Status as world leader destroyed by WW1
-Still had lots of land but hard to maintain and independence movements emerging
-US world leader
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