Flashcards
Britain 1951 to 1964
Flashcards do conjunto (20)
- 1Churchill1951 - 1955
- 2Eden1955 - 1957
- 3Macmillan1957 - 1963
- 4Home1963 - 1964
- 5CHURCHILL Political Events and Personalities1. 'Cautious, conciliatory and undogmatic' - Paul Adelman.
2. A general continuation of Labour's welfare and employment policies.
3. key Personalities: Rab Butler (Chancellor), Anthony Eden (Foreign Secretary) and Harrold Macmillan (Housing Secretary). - 6CHURCHILL Economic1. Chancellor Rab Butler - full employment, mixed economy and military defence spending.
2. Short term plans only - looking to the next election.
3. 'Butskellism'. - 7CHURCHILL Social1. Immigration - Empire Windrush, 1948.
2. Ealing comedies.
3. Television Act, 1954, established commercial TV.
4. Coronation of Elizabeth II, 1953. - 8CHURCHILL Foreign1. Benning of the retreat from Empire (India 1947).
2. Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, 1952.
3. Schuman Plan, 1950 (the beginnings of the EEC). - 9EDEN Political Events and Personalities1. Serious political fallout from the Suez Crisis.
2. Resigned on the grounds of ill health in 1957. - 10EDEN Economic1. Short turn plans, only looking to the next election.
2. Wages, car ownership and TV licences rose.
3. Economic problems from America following Suez. - 11EDEN SocialThe Age of Affluence
- 12EDEN Foreign1. Suez Crisis, 1956.
2. Decolonisation.
3. 'Missed the bus' in Europe. - 13MACMILLAN Political Events and Personalities1. 'Never had it so good' speech.
2. Aristocratic in his dress and demeanour, but actually had quite radical views on social justice. Almost joined the Labour Party in the 1930s.
3. Classical post-war consensus views.
4. Limited opposition as there were internal divisions in Labour between 'Gaitskellities' and 'Bevanites'.
4. Scandal - Vassal Scandal and the Profumo Affiar. - 14MACMILLAN Economics1. Mixed economy and lose Keynesianism.
2. Aimed to avoid the extremes of inflation and deflation by a series of adjustments to meet particular problems as they came along.
3. Budget Politics - Criticism that they were used as short-term measures to buy votes.
4. 'Stop-go' and stagflation. - 15MACMILLAN Social1. One-Nation Conservatism, The Middle Way was concerned with the mass unemployment of the 1930s and built on Labour's significant reforms.
2. Commonwealth Immigrants Act, 1962.
3. Nottinghill Riots, 1958.
4. British 'New Wave' of cinema produced realistic films such as 'Don't Look Back in Anger', 1959.
5. Full uncensored version of Lady Chatterley's Lover published by Penguin. - 16MACMILLAN Foreign1. Hola Camp Massacre, 1959.
2. 'Wind of change' speech - South Africa, 1960.
3. Cost-Benefit analysis.
4. Decolonisation.
5. Applied to join the EEC, 1961, but it was vetoed by De Gaulle. - 17HOME Political Events and Personalities1. Was a Peer but resigned and fought a bi-election.
2. '[His] aristocratic background, his lack of experience in the Commons and his remoteness from ordinary people, made him totally unsuitable for the leadership of the country'. - 18HOME Economic1. Poor industrial growth rate.
2. Too much spent on military defence - in 1964 10% of GDP was spent on defence (only the USA spent more).
3. 'Stop-go'. - 19HOME Foreign1. Decolonisation.
2. 'Britain had lost an empire and has not yet found a role' - Dean Acheson. - 20Key Themes throughout the period1. Decolonisation and an finding a new position in the world.
2. The ECC - 'missed the bus' and then trying to join.
3. The post-war consensus.
4. 'Stop-go' and short term economic planning.
5. Youth subculture and social disorder - Teddy Boys.
6. Tony Benn - 'a decade of hope'.
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- An overview of each Prime Minister in the period and the similarities running throughout.
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