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AQA Modern History: The Making of Modern Britain: 1951-1964
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Mapa Mental sobre AQA Modern History: The Making of Modern Britain: 1951-1964, creado por Sophie Evans el 24/05/2016.
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modern history
1951
1964
british governement
churchill
eden
macmillan
wilson
conservative
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AQA Modern History: The Making of Modern Britain: 1951-1964
Post War Consensus
Expand the Welfare State
Build up Nuclear Weapons
Mixed Economy
Conservatives denationalised steel but kept the rest
State subsidies for farmers
Butskellism
Conservative Key Figures
Churchill
1953- had a stroke
Resigned in 1955
1951-1955
Butler
Best PM there never was
Buskellism
Conservative with left wing views
Eden
Resigned over Suez in 1957
1955-1957
Helped Churchill with government whilst he was unable to
People had very high expectations of him as PM
Macmillan
Supermac
Foreign secretary for Eden
Retired 1963
1957-1963
Sir Douglas-Home
1963-1964
Conservatives
Achievments
Continued consensus
Rise in affluence
Survived the Suez Crisis
Ended rationing
Weaknesses
1963 EEC application was rejected
Balance of payments crisis
Night of the Long Knives- 1962
Profumo and Vassal Scandals
Out of touch
All occurerd within early 60s
Establishment still in force
Satire became popular
1964 Election
More Conservatives losing it, than Labour winning
Labour only won by 3 seats
Conservatives lost 6% of previous vote
1951 Election
Labour
Weaknesses
Didn't win 1959 despite Suez Crisis
Out manouvered by slick conservatives
Ill thought out policy on pensions- didn't make sense
Split over EEC and CND
Made them seem like they weren't a progressive party
Trade Unions
CND turned some Labour voters away in 1959
Some with pro USSR views
Achievements
Wilson
Rise in living standards paved way for social revolution
Bevan and Gaitskell both dead so split in party is less obvious
White heat of technological revolution
Time for a change
"Thirteen Wasted Years"
Labour Key Figures
Clement Attlee
Wilson
HP Sauce
Baked Beans
From Huddersfield
Hugh Gaitskell
Right of the party
Won over Bevan
Unlucky
Leader of Labour whilst party was most divided
Economy was prosperous
Economy
The Golden Age
Consumer goods payed on higher purchase
Farmers helped with government subsidies
1.7 million new homes built by 1964
Unemployment went from 30% to 2%
Wage rises
Stop Go economics
Stop
Increase taxes and inflation
Wages and imports rise above productivity
Increase import controls
Go
1955/1959
Butler gave away massive incentives to people
Balance of payments increases because Britain can't produce enough consumer goods
Reacting rather than dictating
Thirteen Wasted Years
1957 Crisis
Run on the £
Changed to Keynesism
Sterling recovered against the dollar
Society
Rise in living standards
Maintained and developed welfare state
Few gender quality laws passed
Immigration
Notting Hill riots 1958
No laws put in place
Macmillan boom 1960
56000 immigrants came in
1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act to limit numbers
Education
Tripartite system
Foreign Policy
Winds of change
Suez Crisis 1957
1963 EEC application rejected
Decolonisation
Before suez- slow, gradual, to more 'clever' countries
1947- India and Pakistan
After Suez- fast, unprepared, more African countries
1957- Ghana
1960- Nigeria
1962- Jamaica, Uganda
1963- Kenya
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