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| Question | Answer |
| Blitzkrieg | a swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment |
| Luftwaffe | German term for an airforce |
| William Beveridge | produced a report in 1942 that served as the basis for the post-war welfare state |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of the UK, 1940-45 |
| Clement Atlee | Prime Minister of the UK, 1945-51 |
| Commonwealth of Nations | a voluntary association of independent states, most of which are former colonies of the British Empire |
| Kindertransport | name of the mission which saw the UK rescue thousands of children (mainly Jewish) from Nazi-occupied territory |
| alien | a legal term for a person in a country who is not a national citizen |
| Communism | a theory which argues for an equal and classless society where there is common ownership of all the means of production and property |
| multicultural | a state of racial, cultural and ethnic diversity within a specified place |
| pogrom | extensive violence directed against a particular ethnic or religious group |
| Idi Amin | military dictator who was President of Uganda, 1971-79 |
| discrimination | giving prejudicial treatment to either a person or a group |
| prejudice | a pre-determined feeling, either favorable or unfavorable |
| work permit | legal authorisation which allows a person to take employment |
| Harold Macmillan | Conservative politician who was British PM, 1957-63 |
| Enoch Powell | a British right-wing politician who held particularly outspoken views on immigration |
| Teddy boys | a subculture of young men who wore clothes inspired by the styles of the Edwardian period |
| National Front | a British political party, mostly active during the 1970s and 1980s, which was widely considered to be racist |
| right-wing | a political viewpoint which generally seeks to retain traditional values |
| Nazi | a term to denote someone who believes in the policies adapted by the Hitler government in Nazi Germany, 1933-45 |
| Edward Heath | Conservative politician, British PM, 1970-74 |
| Kelso Cochrane | an Antiguan immigrant whose murder in Britain in 1959 sparked racial tensions in London |
| Claudia Jones | a black nationalist and feminist who is remembered for starting the Notting Hill carnival |
| Bob Marley | a Jamaican musician and song writer who was most famous for his performance of reggae music |
| Rastafarian | a belief in a monotheistic religion that accepts both Jesus Chris and Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as reincarnations of God |
| Huegenots | members of the Protestant reformed church of France who left France in the 16th century to escape from religious persecution |
| prescription | medicine prescribed by a doctor |
| Insurance System | a system where people derive a benefit as a result of paying into a fund along with others such as a government and an employer |
| nationalised | taken over by the government |
| Anthony Eden | Prime Minister of the UK, 1955-57 |
| Alec Douglas-Home | Prime Minister of the UK, 1963-64 |
| James Callaghan | Prime Minister of the UK, 1976-79 |
| Anuerin Bevan | Labour Minister of Health 1945-51, responsible for the passing of the National Health Service Act |
| Hugh Gaitskell | Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1950-51 |
| John Freeman | resigned with Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson over National Health Service charges |
| domesticity | home and family life |
| feminist | someone who believes in the equality of the sexes |
| heavy industry | the manufacture of large, heavy items |
| light industry | the manufacture of small, light items such as clothes and furniture |
| Margaret Thatcher | Conservative politician who was British Prime Minister, 1979-90 |
| undergraduate | a student in post-secondary education, usually an university |
| Beveridge Report | a report written in 1942 containing a series of recommendations for social reform |
| free vote | a vote where Members of Parliament vote according to their own beliefs rather than following party policy |
| Private Member's Bill | a proposed law which is introduced by a Member of Parliament who is not a government minister |
| Germaine Greer | an Australian journalist and academic who championed the cause of feminism in the later part of the 20th century |
| European Economic Community (EEC) | an organisation founded in 1957 which aimed to bring about economic integration between European countries |
| boom | a time of rapid growth in wealth |
| Elvis Presley | an American singer and cultural icon, known as the 'King of Rock and Roll' |
| James Dean | an American actor who became a cultural icon despite his premature death at the age of 24 |
| Marlon Brando | Academy-Award winning American actor who starred in films such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now |
| The Beatles | enormously successful pop and rock band from Liverpool that formed in the 1960s |
| Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) | a movement which calls for all countries to dismantle their nuclear weapons |
| Mods | subculture that originated in London during the 1950s whose interest included pop music and tailor-made suits |
| Rockers | a subculture that originated in Britain in the 1960s among motorcycle-riding youths |
| Tripartite System | education system which divided secondary schools into grammar schools, technical schools and modern schools |
| Grammar school | schools that select their pupils on the basis of their intellectual ability |
| Polytechnic | a higher education institution that aimed to teach both academic and vocational subjects |
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