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What is the post-war consensus?

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A broad agreement by the 3 parties

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What does “from the cradle to the grave” mean?

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How the welfare state will look after the people

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What is public sector housing?

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Council houses

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What was the Korean War?

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War against North and South Korea

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What was “New Britain”?

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Equal opportunities and decline of deference

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Who are Satirists?

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People who mock politicians and figures

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What does NATO stand for? What is it?

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North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Western military alliance

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What was the Cold War? When did it take place?

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War with no actual fighting

1945-89

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What was the peace caravan?

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A group that protested against nuclear weapons

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What is Stop-go? What government used it and when?

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Interest rates being used to control economic growth

Tories 1951-64

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What is Butskellism?

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Similarities in economic Labour and Conservative policies

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What was stagflation?

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Inflation at an economic downturn

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What was the Marshall Aid?

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US aid to help economic recovery

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What was the New Commonwealth?

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Former colonies in Asia and Africa

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What was the “baby boom”?

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The large number of children born after WW2

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What were conscripts?

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Men in forced service

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Who were Local Shop Stewards?

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Union officials with power in their workplace

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What was the Sterling?

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British currency

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What was the Trade Union Congress (TUC)?

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Main trade union organisation

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What MPs introduced Private Members’ Bills?

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Backbench MPs

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What was the “pay pause”?

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A period of no pay increase

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What was the Vietnam War?

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War between North and South Vietnam

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What does UDI stand for? What did this mean?

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Unilateral Declaration of Independence

Illegal declaration of independence

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What is meant by a cooling-off period?

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The time between the calling of a strike and the actual strike

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What is meant by a White Paper?
Document of government policies and proposals
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What is meant by a "white backlash"?
Reaction of immigration under the New Commonwealth
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What was the New Commonwealth?
Former colonies in Africa and Asia
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Who were the Royal Ulster Constabulary? What religious group dominated them?
Northern Ireland police force | Protestants
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What is meant by second-wave feminism?
1960s feminism which sought more than just political rights
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What is meant by a "clean-up" campaigner?
Someone who tried to improve "morality" by attacking the media
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What is meant by the "New Right"?
Less government intervention and more responsibility to the people
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What is meant by internment?
Imprisonment without trial
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What is meant by direct rule?
Direct NI rule after Stormont parliament suspension
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What is meant by Hard-line Protestants?
Protestants who opposed any compromise with Catholics
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What was the National Union of Miners (NUM)? Under who did it become more left-wing?
Trade union that represented miners | Arthur Scargill
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What is meant by flying pickets?
Strikers who prevented people going to work or moving goods
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What is Stop and Search? Who was it primarily used against?
The right of police to investigate a suspect of a crime | Black people
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What is meant by sovereignity? What did Eurosceptics fear?
Issues where power lies | Too much power would be given to the EU
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What is the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP)?
An EEC agricultural policy where farmers were subsidised if produce couldn't be sold at a favourable price
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What was the Social Contract?
An agreement over wage restraints between Labour and the trade unions
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What was British Leyland?
Large-scale car manufacturer
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What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
An organisation designed to loan money to struggling countries
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What was the "Winter of Discontent"?
The industrial disputes over 1978-79
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What is a referendum?
National vote
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What is meant by bureaucracy?
Those involved in administrations and paperwork
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What is meant by the "first past the post" system?
System where the candidate with the most votes are elected regardless of whether they have the majority vote
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Who were Militant Tendency?
Radical left-wing group that infiltrated Labour
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What is meant by unilateral nuclear disarmament?
Where a country wants to get rid of nuclear weapons in the hope other countries follow
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What is meant by mass picketing?
Protests outside workplaces to prevent people going to work
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What is the National Coal Board (NCB)?
Organisation that manages the coal mining industry
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What is "supply-side economics"?
Where the economy's supply-side is encouraged for growth
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What is popular capitalism?
Theory that everyone should be able to own shares and property
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What is the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)?
Precursor to the Euro that tied member currencies with the Deustchmark
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What is a flat-rate tax?
Where everyone pays the same amount
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What is a Eurosceptic?
Politicians opposed/wary of the EU
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What is meant by sleaze?
Corruption/sex scandals - particularly associated with Major's government
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What is "New Labour"?
Reform and modernisation of Labour under Tony Blair
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What is meant by Cool Britannia?
Making Britain seem more fashionable through promotion of popular culture
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What is institutional racism?
An organisation with deeply embedded racism
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What is a "glass ceiling"?
Discrimination in the workplace which isn't formally acknowledged
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What is Daesh?
IS movement
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What is the European Economic Community (EEC)?
Economic alliance introduced in 1957
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What is Gross Domestic Product (GDP)?
Measuring a country's wealth through production
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What is meant by the "permissive society"?
Liberalisation in the 1960s
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What is the Suez Canal?
Canal that connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea
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What is meant by wets and dries?
Term used to describe Tories who supported/opposed Thatcher's policies
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What is meant by white heat?
Term referring to science and technology development in the 1960s

A-Level History: The Making Of Modern Britain - 1951-2007 (40 decks)

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