60s Social Issues

Question 1

What was one of the biggest areas of advancement and progress in the 60s

Answer 1

The dissemination of news from sources such as TV and independent radio stations

Question 2

How many tv licenses were there by 1975

Answer 2

nearly 18 million

Question 3

When did The Sun launch

Answer 3

1964

Question 4

By 1969, TV accounted for what % of leisure time

Answer 4

23%

Question 5

By 1974, cars accounted for what % of journeys

Answer 5

77%

Question 7

When and why was Brittania Airways founded

Answer 7

1964; To cater to the increasing number of people who could afford holidays abroad/

Question 8

What, opening in 1965, was the tallest tower in Britain

Answer 8

The post office building

Question 9

What role did the office of Lord Chamberlain provide

Answer 9

It had the power to prevent or cennsor certain plays due to offensive content

Question 10

When was George Strauss’s bill to aboliosh theatrical censorship passed into law

Answer 10

1968

Question 11

What controversial musical was one of the first to take advantage of the new lack of censorship with nude scenes

Answer 11

Hair

Question 12

What year did second wave feminism begin

Answer 12

1963 with the puoblishing of the Feminine Mystique

Question 13

What % of womenn ever reached managerial posts in 1970

Answer 13

5%

Question 14

What issues were involved with being a working women

Answer 14

Portrayed as selfish and unhappy
lack of real careers-lots of clerical and service oppurtunites but no growth
lack of childcare except for the v wealthy

Question 15

When were contraceptives and family advice allowed to be issued by the NHS

Answer 15

1967

Question 16

A feminist rally in 1969 brought what movement together and what were their 4 demands

Answer 16

Womens national coordination committee
Equal pay
Contraception and abortion free and on request
Equal job and education opportunities
Free 24 hour childcare

Question 17

What two policies were passed in 1970 to make life fairer for women

Answer 17

Matrimonial property act-took into account the wifes job and earnings in divorces
Equal pay act-although coming into effect 5 years later, was still extremly important

Question 18

Did the feminist movement achieve all its goals by the end of the 1960s

Answer 18

No-equality was still a far way off , discimrination adn sterotyping were commonplace and inequality was ever prevalent

Question 19

What was the new era of a more morally lax society known as

Answer 19

The permissive society

Question 20

Which moral campaigner was responsible for huge protests against the new lack of censorship and the ‘tide of immorality and indecency’ and was she succesful

Answer 20

Mary whitehouse-although her actions led to the setting up of the 100,000 strong national viewers and listeners association in 1965, it failed to have a tangible impact on any program shown by the BBC

Question 21

What grew in the 1960s and was subsequently banned by an act 1967

Answer 21

Drug use-heroin and cocaine addiction was ten times more prevalent in the first half of the 1960s

Question 22

What did the 1968 Wooton report propose and why was it rejected

Answer 22

The Legalization of Marijuana-rejected by Callaghan who was much less liberal and wanted to cut down on permisiveness in society compared to his predecessor roy jenkins

Question 23

When did top of the pops begin airing

Answer 23

1968

Question 24

Where did anti vietnam teachins in 1965 take place at

Answer 24

LSE and Oxford university

Question 25

What battle took place on 28th march 1968 in central london over the vietnam war and how many were arrested

Answer 25

Battle of Grosvenor square. 200 arrested

Question 26

How many people took part in the final anti war demonstration in london in 1968

Answer 26

over 30,000

Question 27

What proprtion of people objected to working with a black or asian people and what proportion condemned mixed race marriages

Answer 27

1/5 and 1/2 respectively

Question 28

What was passed in 1965 in order to nominally reduce racial discimination

Answer 28

the first Race Relation Act

Question 29

What did the first race relation act impose

Answer 29

It forbade discrimination in public places on the grounds of race or ethnicity. however, discimination in housing or empoloyment was still unpunishable

Question 30

What event caused the passing of a new commonwealth immigration act

Answer 30

The influx of Kenyan asians in 1968

Question 31

What did the new commonwealth immigration act

Answer 31

The right of return to Britain for non-white commonwealth citizens

Question 32

When was Enoch Powells rivers of blood speech made

Answer 32

1968

Question 33

What consequences did Powell face for his speech

Answer 33

Condemned by the stablishment; Heath not only sacked him from the shadow cabinet but never spoke to him again. However, a gallup poll found around 3/4ths of people supported what he said

Question 34

When was the second Race Relation Act introduced and what did it entail

Answer 34

1968 and it banned discimination in housing employment and insurance, among other fields, with complaints to the board being the way to arbitrate such issues.

Question 35

What % of complaints did the Race Relations board uphold, leading some to doubt its efficacy

Answer 35

10% of the 1241 complaints it received

Question 36

When did the Notting Hill Carnival; an event to celebrate immigrant culure begin

Answer 36

1968