AQA Modern History: The Making of Modern Britain: 1951-1964

Post War Consensus
1. Expand the Welfare State
2. Build up Nuclear Weapons
3. Mixed Economy
  1. Conservatives denationalised steel but kept the rest
4. State subsidies for farmers
5. Butskellism
Conservative Key Figures
1. Churchill
  1. 1953- had a stroke
  2. Resigned in 1955
  3. 1951-1955
2. Butler
  1. Best PM there never was
  2. Buskellism
    1. Conservative with left wing views
3. Eden
  1. Resigned over Suez in 1957
  2. 1955-1957
  3. Helped Churchill with government whilst he was unable to
  4. People had very high expectations of him as PM
4. Macmillan
  1. Supermac
  2. Foreign secretary for Eden
  3. Retired 1963
  4. 1957-1963
5. Sir Douglas-Home
  1. 1963-1964
Conservatives
1. Achievments
  1. Continued consensus
  2. Rise in affluence
  3. Survived the Suez Crisis
  4. Ended rationing
2. Weaknesses
  1. 1963 EEC application was rejected
  2. Balance of payments crisis
  3. Night of the Long Knives- 1962
  4. Profumo and Vassal Scandals
    1. Out of touch
  5. All occurerd within early 60s
  6. Establishment still in force
    1. Satire became popular
3. 1964 Election
  1. More Conservatives losing it, than Labour winning
    1. Labour only won by 3 seats
    2. Conservatives lost 6% of previous vote
4. 1951 Election
Labour
1. Weaknesses
  1. Didn't win 1959 despite Suez Crisis
  2. Out manouvered by slick conservatives
  3. Ill thought out policy on pensions- didn't make sense
  4. Split over EEC and CND
    1. Made them seem like they weren't a progressive party
  5. Trade Unions
  6. CND turned some Labour voters away in 1959
    1. Some with pro USSR views
2. Achievements
  1. Wilson
  2. Rise in living standards paved way for social revolution
  3. Bevan and Gaitskell both dead so split in party is less obvious
  4. White heat of technological revolution
  5. Time for a change
    1. "Thirteen Wasted Years"
Labour Key Figures
1. Clement Attlee
2. Wilson
  1. HP Sauce
  2. Baked Beans
  3. From Huddersfield
3. Hugh Gaitskell
  1. Right of the party
  2. Won over Bevan
  3. Unlucky
    1. Leader of Labour whilst party was most divided
    2. Economy was prosperous
Economy
1. The Golden Age
  1. Consumer goods payed on higher purchase
  2. Farmers helped with government subsidies
  3. 1.7 million new homes built by 1964
  4. Unemployment went from 30% to 2%
  5. Wage rises
2. Stop Go economics
  1. Stop
    1. Increase taxes and inflation
    2. Wages and imports rise above productivity
    3. Increase import controls
  2. Go
    1. 1955/1959
      1. Butler gave away massive incentives to people
  3. Balance of payments increases because Britain can't produce enough consumer goods
  4. Reacting rather than dictating
    1. Thirteen Wasted Years
3. 1957 Crisis
  1. Run on the £
  2. Changed to Keynesism
  3. Sterling recovered against the dollar
Society
1. Rise in living standards
2. Maintained and developed welfare state
3. Few gender quality laws passed
4. Immigration
  1. Notting Hill riots 1958
    1. No laws put in place
  2. Macmillan boom 1960
    1. 56000 immigrants came in
  3. 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act to limit numbers
5. Education
  1. Tripartite system
Foreign Policy
1. Winds of change
2. Suez Crisis 1957
3. 1963 EEC application rejected
4. Decolonisation
  1. Before suez- slow, gradual, to more 'clever' countries
    1. 1947- India and Pakistan
  2. After Suez- fast, unprepared, more African countries
    1. 1957- Ghana
    2. 1960- Nigeria
    3. 1962- Jamaica, Uganda
    4. 1963- Kenya

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