Labour Victory
Attlee Administration
Postwar Consensus
Crisis of 1970s
Thatcher Administration
100

Idleness, Want, Squalor, Disease, Ignorance

What were the Five Evils outlined in the Beveridge Report?

100

Coal, rail, steel

Which were the three industries that the Attlee Administration aimed to nationalise?

100

Labour and Conservatives

Which two parties were in government in Britain during the postwar years?

100

The Winter of Discontent

What did the Winter of 1978/9 become known as?

100

Poll Tax

Which final policy brought the Thatcher Administration to breaking point in 1990?

200

A Gestapo

What did Churchill foolishly claim a Labour government would ultimately necessitate?

200

Korean War

Which global event forced the Attlee government to divert money away from domestic/health spending?

200

Keynesianism

What is the name of the economic theory that underpinned the postwar consensus?

200

23%

What level did inflation reach in 1973?

200

Orgreave

Which 'battle' became an icon of the Miners' Strike of 1984-5?

300

Wartime Coalition

In which government did many of Attlee's ministers participate and prove themselves?

300

Sir Stafford Cripps

Who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer famous for his austere budgets?

300

Unemployment

According to Keynesianism, what is the main economic ill that the state should combat?

300

Stagflation

What is the combination of high inflation and low economic growth known as?

300

The supply of money

What does the economic theory of Monetarism posit is the tool to control inflation?

400

Herbert Morrison

Whom did some Labour members try to replace Attlee with immediately after the Labour victory?

400

Harold Wilson

Who, along with Nye Bevan, quit the Labour Government in protest at the introduction of NHS prescription charges?

400
SS Empire Windrush

What was the boat that gave a name to a whole generation of Caribbean migrants to Britain in the 1950s and 1960s?

400
The IMF

Who had to offer Britain a bailout in 1976 owing to the Sterling Crisis?

400

Tell Sid

What was the name of the campaign to get the public to buy shares in British Gas as it was privatised?

500

Let Us Face the Future

What was the name of the Labour Party Manifesto in 1945?

500

Trafford General Hospital

Which hospital is regarded as the 'first NHS hospital'?

500

A wine shelf

What did Labour Home Secretary Roy Jenkins put in his office upon becoming Home Secretary to replace the timetable of people to be hanged?

500

Yom Kippur

Which 1973 war led the OPEC oil-producing countries to shut off oil supplies to the West, sparking the Oil Crisis?

500

Chile

Which was the only country to have experimented with monetarism before Thatcher's Britain?

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