Chapter 2.2: The Churchill gov 1951-1955

Question 1

How old was Churchill when he was reelected?

Answer 1

77

Question 2

What year was he out of action for a few months and why?

Answer 2

1953 - out of action for as a result of a stroke

Question 3

What year did rationing end?

Answer 3

1954

Question 4

How many houses per year did the Conservative Party commit itself to build?

Answer 4

300,000

Question 5

What year was Queen Elizabeth II placed as a monarch?

Answer 5

1952 (1953 was the coronation)

Question 6

What year did Britain detonate its first atomic bomb?

Answer 6

1952

Question 7

What is the name coined with the mix of Labour and Conservatives ideas, that was reflected in their policies?

Answer 7

Butskellism

Question 8

What is the name coined with the mix of Labour and Conservatives ideas, that was reflected in their policies?

Answer 8

Rab Butler (Conservative) and Hugh Gaitskell (Labour Leader)

Question 9

Where was the term ‘Butskellism’ first used?

Answer 9

1954 - ‘The Economist’

Question 10

What were the Conservative’s main aims of this time (that were continued from Labour)? (4).

Answer 10

• trying to maintain employment whilst achieving economic growth
• expanding the welfare state
• keeping Britain’s heavily committed military defence programme
• developing a nuclear weapons programme

Question 11

Conservatives repealed …. and ……… nationalisation in ……., as it was profitable industry in the 1940s

Answer 11

Conservatives repealed Iron and steel nationalisation in 1951, as it was profitable industry in the 1940s

Question 12

The conservatives sold __% of new ______ as_______ dwellings in order to create a ‘property owning ____________’

Answer 12

The conservatives sold 60% of new houses as private dwellings in order to create a ‘property owning democracy’

Question 13

What year was steel denationalised?

Answer 13

1953