Political Landscape of Britain 1919-1979

By Cmeloon

  • Voting at 7.7 million

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    Liberals under Herbert Asquith

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    WW1

  • Maurice debate

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    Lloyd George was prime minister of liberal party

  • Conservatives won 379 seats

  • Lloyd George won 127 seats

  • Herbert Asquith formed the Independent Liberal Party

  • Representation of the People Act

  • Voting at 21.4 million

  • 43% of the votes were women

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    Lloyd George prime minister

  • Lloyd George tried to make the coalition permanent and name it the centre party

  • Irish free state meant liberals lost 80 seats

  • Neville Chamberlain's Housing Act

  • Bonar Law promises "tranquillity and freedom from adventures home and abroad"

  • Conservatives ended their coalition with Lloyd George

  • Chanak incident

  • Stanley Baldwin openly spoke out against Lloyd George at the Charlton club

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    Bonar Law was prime minister

  • Baldwin tried adopting protectionism but then went back on himself

  • Conservatives only won 258 seats

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    Stanley Baldwin prime minister

  • Was a hung election

  • Macdonald impressed the public with economic affairs skills with the Dawes Plan

  • Campbell Case

  • Zinoviev letter revealed

  • Period: to

    Ramsay Macdonald was prime minister

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    Stanley Baldwin prime minister

  • Lloyd George funded the liberal party

  • Wall Street Crash

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    Ramsay Macdonald prime minister

  • George Langbury took over form Macdonald

  • Macdonald was expelled from Labour as he wanted to cut spending by 10%

  • Oswald Mosley founded the New Party

  • Period: to

    National Government

  • British Union of Fascist founded

  • BUF has 50,000 members

  • Special Areas Act

  • Baldwin wanted to give 2/3 Abyssinia to fascist Italy

  • Period: to

    Baldwin was prime minister

  • BUF caused the Battle of Cable Street

  • Edward VIII abdicated the throne

  • Period: to

    Neville Chamberlain was prime minister

  • Period: to

    WW2

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    Phoney War

  • Chamberlain lost vote of no confidence

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    Oswald Mosley in prison

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    Churchill was prime minister

  • Beveridge report was written

  • Labour implemented the Beveridge report in the Manifesto

  • Family Allowance Act

  • Churchill makes the Gestapo speech

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    Consensus Government

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    Clement Atlee Prime minister

  • Labour won a landslide victory

  • Bank of England is formed

  • National Health Service

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    Bread rationing

  • National coal board took over 1500 colleries

  • Economic Planning Council

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    Potatoes are rationed

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    Coal is rationed

  • Electricity generation nationalisation

  • Marshall Aid

  • All rationing ends

  • Period: to

    Winston Churchill was prime minister

  • Churchill built 319,000 houses by the end of the year

  • Churchill privatised steel and iron

  • Period: to

    Anthony Eden was prime minister

  • Period: to

    Harold Macmillan was prime minister

  • MacMillan tried to join the European Economic Community

  • MacMillan made National Economic Development Councils

  • Period: to

    Alec Douglas Home was prime minister

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    Harold Wilson prime minister

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    Edward Heath prime minister

  • Period: to

    Harold Wilson was prime minister

  • Period: to

    James Callaghn was prime minister