Depression, War and Recovery Dates

Question 1

General Strike

Answer 1

1926

Question 2

Britain followed Free Trade Policies until _____

Answer 2

1932

Question 3

When was the Wall Street Crash? (M/Y)

Answer 3

October 1929

Question 4

When was mass unemployment 2 million?

Answer 4

1930

Question 5

When was mass unemployment over 3 million?

Answer 5

1932

Question 6

When did unemployment fall back to 2 million?

Answer 6

1935

Question 7

____ Unemployment Insurance Act

Answer 7

1920

Question 8

____ - Ramsay Macdonald’s Labour Government split over cutting the dole by 20%

Answer 8

1931

Question 9

____ General Election put the Conservative government back in power (During the Depression)

Answer 9

1935

Question 10

When did Neville Chamberlain become PM? (M/Y)

Answer 10

May 1937

Question 11

When was the Means Test introduced?

Answer 11

1931

Question 12

When were the first Hunger Marches?

Answer 12

1931

Question 13

When was the nationwide hunger march organised by the NUWM (375 marchers came from Rhondda)? (M/Y)

Answer 13

October 1932

Question 14

When was the dole cut?

Answer 14

1935

Question 15

When was the Jarrow Crusade?

Answer 15

1936

Question 16

When was the Rhondda Hunger March (supported by the Labour Party)? (M/Y)

Answer 16

October 1936

Question 17

When were 72% of unemployed people living below the poverty line?

Answer 17

1936

Question 18

In what year were there 9 million registered radio sets?

Answer 18

1939

Question 19

When was the first Welsh language film released?

Answer 19

1935

Question 20

After ____, living standards began to improve in areas with new light industries.

Answer 20

1932

Question 21

____ Special Areas Act

Answer 21

1934

Question 22

Second Special Areas Act

Answer 22

1936

Question 23

When did rearmament begin?

Answer 23

1936

Question 24

When was Treforest Industrial Estate set up?

Answer 24

1936

Question 25

When was Guernica Bombed?

Answer 25

1937

Question 26

When was Anschluss (the annexation of Austria)?

Answer 26

1938

Question 27

When was the Anglo-German Naval Agreement formed?

Answer 27

1935

Question 28

When did Germany Remilitarise the Rhineland?

Answer 28

1936

Question 29

When was the Munich Agreement formed? (M/Y)

Answer 29

September 1938

Question 30

When did Germany invade Czechoslovakia? (M/Y)

Answer 30

March 1939

Question 31

When was the Nazi-Soviet Pact formed? (M/Y)

Answer 31

August 1939

Question 32

When did Germany invade Poland? (D/M/Y)

Answer 32

1st September 1939

Question 33

When did Britain declare war on Germany? (D/M/Y)

Answer 33

3rd September 1939

Question 34

_______ ____Military Training Act (M/Y)

Answer 34

April 1939

Question 35

When did conscription begin? (M/Y)

Answer 35

September 1939

Question 36

When was the schedule of Reserved Occupations drawn up?

Answer 36

1938

Question 37

Emergency Powers Act

Answer 37

1939

Question 38

When was the Phoney War? (M/Y - M/Y)

Answer 38

October 1939-April 1940

Question 39

When were British and French forces defeated in Norway? (M/Y)

Answer 39

April 1940

Question 40

When was the Battle of France? (M - M/Y)

Answer 40

May - June 1940

Question 41

When was the evacuation of Dunkirk (D/M/Y)

Answer 41

26th May 1940

Question 42

When was the Battle of Britain? (Season/Y)

Answer 42

Summer 1940

Question 43

When was the Blitz (M/Y - M/Y)

Answer 43

September 1940 - May 1941

Question 44

When did Germany invade the USSR (Operation Barbarossa)? (M/Y)

Answer 44

June 1941

Question 45

When was D-Day?(D/M/Y)

Answer 45

6th June 1944

Question 46

When was the Baby Blitz (From V1 and V2 rockets)? (Y - M/Y)

Answer 46

1943 - May 1945

Question 47

When did Britain ad the USA start launching huge retaliatory air attacks?

Answer 47

1942

Question 48

When was the Battle of the Atlantic? (Y - Y)

Answer 48

1939 - 1944

Question 49

When did Germany Surrender? (D/M/Y)

Answer 49

7th May 1945

Question 50

When is VE Day? (D/M/Y)

Answer 50

8th May 1945

Question 51

When is VJ Day? (D/M/Y)

Answer 51

15th August 1945

Question 52

When did the Blitz begin? (D/M/Y)

Answer 52

2nd September 1940

Question 53

When was the Swansea 3 Night Blitz? (D - D/M/Y)

Answer 53

19th - 21st February 1941

Question 54

When was Operation Pied Piper (Due to expected air raids)? (M - M/Y)

Answer 54

August - September 1939

Question 55

When was the second wave of evacuation (Due to the Blitz)? (M/Y)

Answer 55

September 1940

Question 56

When was the third wave of evacuation (Due to V1 + V2 Rockets)? (Y - Y)

Answer 56

1943-1944

Question 57

When was rationing introduced? (D/M/Y)

Answer 57

29th September 1939 (National Registration Day)

Question 58

When did petrol rationing begin? (M/Y)

Answer 58

March 1939

Question 59

When did bacon, butter, sugar and egg rationing begin?

Answer 59

1940

Question 60

When did jam, cheese, clothing, egg and coal rationing begin?

Answer 60

1941

Question 61

When did rice, fruit, tinned tomatoes, peas, coal, gas, electricity and chocolate rationing begin?

Answer 61

1942

Question 62

When did conscription for war work for women aged 19-30 begin? (M/Y)

Answer 62

December 1941

Question 63

When was the Women's Land Army set up? (M/Y)

Answer 63

June 1939

Question 64

When was conscription introduced into the Women's Land Army

Answer 64

1941

Question 65

When was the Spitfire Fund created?

Answer 65

1940

Question 66

When did Neville Chamberlain resign and Winston Churchill named PM? (D/M/Y)

Answer 66

10th May 1940

Question 67

When did demobilisation begin? (D/M/Y)

Answer 67

18th June 1945

Question 68

When was the 1945 General election? (M/Y)

Answer 68

July 1945

Question 69

When did Clement Attlee become PM? (D/M/Y)

Answer 69

26th July 1945

Question 70

When was the Beveridge Report published? (M/Y)

Answer 70

November 1942

Question 71

____ Family Allowance Act

Answer 71

1945

Question 72

____ National Insurance Act

Answer 72

1946

Question 73

____ National Assistance Act

Answer 73

1948

Question 74

____ National Health Service Act

Answer 74

1946

Question 75

____ Education Act

Answer 75

1944

Question 76

____ Housing Production Executive

Answer 76

1946

Question 77

____ New Towns Act

Answer 77

1946

Question 78

____ Towns and Country Planning Act

Answer 78

1947

Question 79

When did the NHS start? (D/M/Y)

Answer 79

5th July 1948

Question 80

When was the school leaving age raised to 15?

Answer 80

1947

Question 81

When was the coal industry nationalised? (M/Y)

Answer 81

January 1947

Question 82

When was the electricity industry nationalised?

Answer 82

1947

Question 83

When was the gas industry nationalised?

Answer 83

1948

Question 84

When was the rail industry nationalised?

Answer 84

1948

Question 85

When was the Winston Churchill re-elected PM? (M/Y)

Answer 85

October 1951