Specific Info Flashcards by jonathan caporn

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1955 Butler Tax Cuts

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£134 million in Tax Cuts

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Heathcoat Amory disaster

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Before 1959 he issues tax cuts when inflation is high leading to spiralling inflation, he then has to hike tax and interest rates

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1959 post election tax cuts

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£370 million

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Maudling “go” phase

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lowers interest rates, resulting in a “spring” from 4% to 6% growth in GDP 1963-1964

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Exports vs imports 1961-1964

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Despite a rise of exports by 10%, imports remained 20% higher than exports by 1964

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BoT deficit 1964

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£800 million

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British vs France, Italy, USA relative % of R&D spent on defence 1963-4

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Italy 2.6%
France 26.2%
UK 35.5%
USA 40.6%

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% of GDP spent on defence in 1964

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10%, £1.7 billion

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When was blue Streak scrapped

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1960

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GDP growth rate 1951-1964

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Lowest in Europe - 2.3%

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When was EFTA established

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1959

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When was British first application and rejection

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1961, 1963

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Weaknesses of being outside of Europe

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Less appealing for business investment
Subject to European Tariffs

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Suez economic consequences

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US blocks british appeal to IMF for a loan
US refuses to provide oil to compensate for Saudi oil embargo
- Run on the £
- On 3 January 1957 Macmillan admits that the expedition has cost Britain £564m (swelling of debts)

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When was Polaris purchased

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1963 - Mutual Defence Agreement

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FIrst UK nuclear detonation

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1952

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First UK H-bomb detonation

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1957

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Successful campaigns EoS

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Malayan Emergency, Kenya, Aden

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Mutual Defence Pact

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Polaris _ Stationing of American IRBMs in Scotland

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Wolfenden Commission

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1957 - recommended decriminalisation of homosexuality

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Homicide Act 1957

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Bar for execution is far higher

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First Students run the OU

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Jan 1971

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Labour divisions 1959

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Clause IV, Unilateralism

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Property owning democracy

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300,000 per year under Macmillan
1.7m 1951-1964 (60% private dwellings)
- Rent Act - abolishing rent control, 6m homes on market
- Availibility of credit and mortgages

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% of voters Labour by class 1951

65% of working class 20% of middle class

1964 Race relations

Banned discrimination in public

1968 Race relations

Banned discrimination in employment, housing and insurance

Rivers of Blood

Aeneid 1968, Immigration from Kenya "strangers in their own island"

% of Britons that supported Powell

75%, protests in support of him

Commonwealth Immigration Act 1968

New immigrants could not settle in Britain unless they had family connections

Institute for Race Relations Poll

20% against working 50% against neighbours 90% against mixed marriages

New towns like

Kirkby

Sales of Cars 1950-1965

1.5m -> 5.5m

Britannia Airways Founded

1964

Notting Hill

Aug 1958 600 men

% of women married late 50s

75%, 21 average age

First film to mention word "homosexual"

VIctim (1961)

Mary Whitehouse

Crusade against "immorality and depravity" of the new society - early 60s Founds NVLA in 1965 which has 100,000

Seamen Strike when

1966

In Place of Strife

1969

Opposition to IPoS

Callaghan, TUs, 50 Lab MPs

Abolishment of DEA

1967

Roy Jenkins BoT + Inflation

in 1969 surplus BoT, 12% inflation

1970 swing

5%

What is set up to oppose abortion

SPUC (Society for Protection of Unborn children) in 1966

Creation of what to support Gaitskell

CDS - Campaign for Democratic Socialism

1955 % of workers with 2 week paid holiday

90%

TV ownership increase 1957-59

32%

M1 Construction begins when

1958

Holidays to Butlin

60,000 a week in the late 50s

Washing machine and fridge ownership increase from 1957-59

54%, 58%

Clean Air Act

1956

Housing Acts

1957-1961

Factories Acts

1959, 1961 - improve working conditions

Independance pre 1960

India, Sudan (1956), Ghana (1957(, Nigeria (1960)

Baby Boom increase

5% 1951-1961

Rationign Ends

1954

Unemployment by 1955

<1%

Expansion of the service industry

20% by 1960

Car Ownership 1957-1959

25%

Population with not euopean heritage 1960

6%