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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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