Essay Plans

Question 1

The Conservative ‘stop-go’ economic policies in the year 1955-1964 fundamentally weakened the British economy. Assess the Validity

Answer 1

Yes - Stop-Go economic policy damaged the policy
No - Balancing military spendin+NHS+industrial Growth
No - Exclusion from the EEC
No - Suez run on the £, economic consequences

Question 2

‘The Reason behind Britain’s attempts to join the EEC in the years 1967-1973 was that Britain could no longer claim to be a world power in its own right’

Answer 2

1. Withdrawal from East of suez, drift from the US, decline in the role of the commonwealth suggest yes
2. Charles de Gaulle, euro-centralism
3. Was predominantly economic consequences

Question 3

‘Britain became completely dependent on the US in the years 1956-1962’

Answer 3

Yes - Suez crisis showed that Britain had no standing on the international stage - souring of sharing and data
Yes - Blue streak / polaris
No Bases east of Suez, maintained some of the empire
No - Closeness of Macmillan - Stationing of American IRBMs in Schotland

Question 4

To what extent can the Labour government take credit for the liberal reforms