Jake - Affluent Society key dates

Question 1

First Conservative election victory

Answer 1

1951

Question 2

UK’s first atomic bomb tested

Answer 2

1952

Question 3

End of the Korean War

Answer 3

1953

Question 4

Second election of the period

Answer 4

1955

Question 5

Suez Affair

Answer 5

1956

Question 6

UK’s first hydrogen bomb tested

Answer 6

1957

Question 7

Homicide Act

Answer 7

1957

Question 8

Rent Act

Answer 8

1957

Question 9

Life peerages introduced

Answer 9

1958

Question 10

Race Riots

Answer 10

1958-9

Question 11

Third consecutive Conservative general election victory

Answer 11

1959

Question 12

Britain became a founding member of European Free Trade Association

Answer 12

1959

Question 13

Macmillan’s ‘wind of change speech’

Answer 13

1960

Question 14

Labour Party adopts unilateralism

Answer 14

1960

Question 15

Commonwealth Immigration Act

Answer 15

1962

Question 16

Cuban missile crisis

Answer 16

1962

Question 17

Britain’s application to join European Economic Commission vetoed by France

Answer 17

1963

Question 18

Profumo affair

Answer 18

1963

Question 19

Macmillan retired as PM

Answer 19

1963

Question 20

Robbins Report

Answer 20

1963

Question 21

Vassall inquiry

Answer 21

1963

Question 22

Philby affair

Answer 22

1963

Question 23

Argyll divorce

Answer 23

1963

Question 24

Douglas-Home as PM

Answer 24

1963-4

Question 25

Built 300,000 homes annually

Answer 25

1951 - 1954

Question 26

Denationalisation of iron and steel

Answer 26

1951

Question 27

Eden’s resignation for ‘ill-health’

Answer 27

1957

Question 28

Notting Hill riot

Answer 28

August 1958

Question 29

Balance of payment deficit of £800m

Answer 29

1964

Question 30

Macmillan’s ‘never had it so good speech’

Answer 30

July 1957

Question 31

CND founded - campaign for nuclear disarmament

Answer 31

1958

Question 32

Gaitskell beats Bevan to become Labour party leader

Answer 32

1955

Question 32

Gaitskell shred Eden’s attempts to justify Suez

Answer 32

1956

Question 33

Bevan rejects unilateralism as an ‘emotional spasm’ at the Labour Party conference

Answer 33

1957

Question 34

Unilateralism dropped at Labour Conference

Answer 34

1961

Question 35

Gaitskell followed Attlee in publicly declaring that the Labour Party were against Britain’s joining the EEC

Answer 35

1962

Question 36

Gaitskell dies at the age of 57

Answer 36

1963

Question 37

Britain detonates its first atomic bomb

Answer 37

1952

Question 38

Treaty of Rome creates the European Economic Community

Answer 38

1957

Question 39

Conservative government ends rationing

Answer 39

1954