My detailed, thorough and complete notes for section 1 of Britain AQA 2S The Making of Modern Britain, . The notes include a detailed timeline and flashcards of all relevant textbook information with nothing missed of section 1 including economic developments, domestic policies, foreign affairs and...
50s 51 52 53 54
Average marriage 1 in 5 women were working Equal pay for Churchill stroke =
age = 21 and 75% of Britain's retreat from the teachers Act i.e both impaired speech but Food rationing
women married Empire started genders = equality 1st kept hidden ended
Time of social Gaitskell = right of lab step
change = being Bevan = left of lab. 2 key First test of the
reflected in media figures causing a lab split UKs own atomic
and trying to break Infrastructure badly run bomb
down censorship down - needed urgent
Slums replaced e.g: investment
kirkby,Merseyside Uk share of world trade = 22%
60K people a week
Korean war, UK sent troops despite not being able to afford it - sent 90K
holidayed in Butlins
Lab. seats :295
Teddy Boys a teenage The Mau Mau
Lab. Votes:48.8% - 65 %
subculture Rebellion, Kenya
of mid class voting for
Plan for decolonisation = couldnt be quashed by
them
empire -> commonwealth the UK = Must retreat
Con. Seats:321
Britain was a deferential from empire faster
Con. Votes:48% - 80 % of
and conformist society mid class voting for them
with an ingrained sense of 300K houses were built a
authority year. Under churchill but
“Angry Young Men” - Mac housing minister
group of writers attacking Uk men Con - churchill - saw himself as an international statesman & delegated alot, wanted to maintain
the system weekly wage = global peace. key figures in power e.g Eden as acting PM, Rab Butler Chancellor,Macmillan
£8.30 minister for housing
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