End of the post-war consensus- A Level History AQA
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Making of Modern Britain
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AQA
PowerPoint on the third module of the A Level History course The Making of Modern Britain. This includes all the information necessary to obtain confidence on the section, giving details on the political, cultural, social, and economic changes from . The PowerPoint is 48 slides, giving a full overv...
Britain 1951-2007
Part 3- The end of the post war consensus 1970-1979
,Heath as a leader
• Became PM in 1970.
• Had cleared and detailed program of policies for the modernization
Britain.
• First Conservative Party leader to be educated at a state school.
• Was good at policies but not politics.
• Knew the issues surrounding the EEC entry inside and out.
• Skilled on industrial relations and economic modernization.
• Thatcher defeats Heath in the 1975 election.
, Political and economic policies
• Lame Duck • Tax reforms, better law and order, reforms to
industries: industries trade unions, immigration controls, end to p
which can’t survive subsidy of Lame Duck industries.
without state control. • Reforms:
• Decimalization:
security prices are
• School leaving age raised to 16.
represented as • British currency went decimal.
decimals.
• Anthony Barber (chancellor) introduced cuts
• Stagflation: spending and tax cuts to encourage investm
unemployment is
occurring at the same
Barber boom, a rapid rise in inflation and
time as inflation. unemployment.
, Political and economic policies
• U-turn: reversal • As unemployment started to edge towards a
of a previous the government wanted to start taking inter
policy. • They felt compelled to act.
• Rolls Royce was nationalized in 1971.
• Government money was poured in to preven
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders from going bankru
was the famous U- turn.
• By 1973, this all seemed to be working, as
unemployment had fallen back to 500,000.
• However, this was to change with the oil pric
in 1973 and the energy crisis which followed
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