Britain spec. points

Question 1

1951-64 conservative political dominance

Answer 1

political leadership, domestic policies, internal labour divisions, conservative failures

Question 2

1951-64 economic developments

Answer 2

post-war boom, balance of payments, stop-go

Question 3

1951-64 social developments

Answer 3

living standards, impacts of affluence and consumerism, changing social attitudes and tensions, class and establishment, women, immigration, racial violence, teenagers and youth culture

Question 4

1951-64 foreign relations

Answer 4

EFTA and the EEC, relations with USA and USSR, debates over nuclear deterrents, Korean War, Suez, ‘winds of change’ and decolonisation

Question 5

1964-70 Wilson’s labour

Answer 5

Wilson’s ideology and leadership, economic policies and problems, devaluation, industrial relations, trade unions, domestic policies, labour divisions, NI ‘troubles’, end of post-war consensus, loss of 1970 election

Question 6

1964-70 liberal reforming legislation

Answer 6

private members’ bills, capital punishment, divorce, abortion, homosexuality, education

Question 7

1964-70 social and cultural change

Answer 7

mass media, leisure activities, scientific developments, censorship, female equality, changes in moral attitudes, youth, ‘permissive society’, anti-Vietnam war riots, immigration and race

Question 8

1964-70 foreign relations

Answer 8

USA and Vietnam, response to world affairs and relations with Europe, decolonisation including ‘withdrawal East of Suez’ and Rhodesia

Question 9

1970-9 Heath’s government

Answer 9

Heath as leader, political and economic policies, industrial relations and the miner’s strikes, NI and Sunningdale

Question 10

1970-9 Wilson and Callaghan

Answer 10

political, economic, industrial problems and policies, problems in NI

Question 11

1970-9 70s society

Answer 11

feminism, Sex Discrimination Act, race and immigration, youth, environmentalism

Question 12

1970-9 foreign relations

Answer 12

Europe, the ‘special relationship’ with the USA, attitudes to the USSR and China

Question 13

1979-87 Thatcher governments

Answer 13

Thatcher’s leadership, character, ideology, supporting and opposing ministers, electoral success, internal labour divisions and formation of SDP, NI ‘troubles’

Question 14

1979-87 Thatcher’s economic policies

Answer 14

monetarism, privatisation, deregulation, inflation, unemployment, economic realignment

Question 15

1979-87 Thatcherism in society

Answer 15

council houses, miners’ strike and other industrial disputes, poll tax, extra-parliamentary opposition

Question 16

1979-87 foreign affairs

Answer 16

Falklands, ‘special relationship’, Cold War, Thatcher as an international figure, Europe and Thatcher’s policies, conservative divisions

Question 17

1987-97 fall of Thatcher and rise of Major

Answer 17

Major as leader, economic developments, ‘Black Wednesday’, political sleaze, scandal, and satire, political polices, NI, conservative divisions

Question 18

1987-97 realignment of labour

Answer 18

realignment under Kinnock, Smith, and Blair, labour victory in 1997

Question 19

1987-97 social issues and ‘social liberalism’

Answer 19

anti-establishment culture, women, race relations

Question 20

1987-97 foreign affairs

Answer 20

Europe and the SEA and Maastricht Treaty, interventions in the Balkans, Cold War

Question 21

1997-2007 Blair’s labour

Answer 21

Blair’s leadership, character, ideology, constitutional change, domestic policies, Brown’s economic policies, NI and Good Friday Agreement

Question 22

1997-2007 conservative realignment

Answer 22

leaders, reasons for divisions, electoral failures in 2001 and 2005

Question 23

1997-2007 social issues

Answer 23

workers, women, youth, multicultural society

Question 24

1997-2007 foreign affairs

Answer 24

Europe, ‘special relationship’, military interventions, the ‘war on terror’, Britain’s position in the world by 2007