Question 1‚ parts (a) and (b). Source 1 The 5.6% national swing from Labour to the Conservatives was the largest achieved by either party since 1945. The biggest swing was among skilled workers. These were precisely the people we had to win over from their lifelong socialist allegiances. They were confronted by the fundamental dilemma which faced Britain as a whole: whether to accept an ever greater role for government in the life of the nation‚ or to break free in a new direction. From Path to Power
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In what way did post war prosperity bring social change to Britain 1951-1964? Britain as a country in the year 1951 stood as a country widely effected by the Second World War and the country reflected visible damage which the war had caused. Many young men were on the National Service‚ rationing was only just coming to an end and also social life in Britain felt like it was in the past. However some felt that the year 1951 was a year of change‚ they felt as if they were on the way to a new modern
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In general‚ high-income people tend to be _____ on social issues and _____ on economic issues. Selected Answer: liberal; conservative liberal; conservative The Marxist political-economy model suggests that: Selected Answer: an anti-democratic bias exists in the capitalist system. an anti-democratic bias exists in the capitalist system. A pluralist approach to the U.S. political system suggests that: power is widely dispersed throughout society. power is widely dispersed throughout
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in Palk Strait. Before the 1964 cyclone‚ Dhanushkodi was a flourishing tourist and pilgrimage town. Since Ceylon now Sri Lanka is just 18 miles away‚ there were many weekly ferry services between Dhanushkodi and Thalaimannar of Ceylon‚ transporting travellers and goods across the sea. There were hotels‚ textile shops and dharmashalas catering to these pilgrims and travellers. The Railway line to Dhanushkodi–which did not touch Rameshwaram then and destroyed in the 1964 cyclone-went directly from
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Topic Proposal Kurt Vonnegut "Happy Birthday‚ 1951" Kurt Vonnegut wrote many short stories on war and peace‚ a series of which was compiled into "Armageddon In Retrospect‚" by his son Mark Vonnegut. The short "Happy Birthday‚ 1951" portrays the aftermath of cultural devastation and its effects on the generation raised amidst such upheaval. A young boy and an old man struggle for survival surrounded by a city in rubble. (Let’s suppose the city is Dresden‚ Kurt Vonnegut loved to write about the
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Waterside Dispute 1951 Hayley Ross 13SA 1951 was post war and the country was booming economically‚ for this reason the cost of living was rising substantially. The federation of Labour took out a general wage order through the Arbitration Court and promised everyone in the unions covered by this court to a 15% pay rise. This was meant to include the watersiders‚ but the Waterfront Industry Commission was in control of the watersider’s wages‚ they broke this promise of a pay rise and said that
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what extent was the period between 1951 and 1964 a ‘Golden Age’ for the economy? Howard Macmillan’s words ‘… most of our people have never had it so good’ became an important symbol of the time when Britain seemed to be in a Golden Age. The British people were optimistic and there was affluence within society. There were however examples of the underlying problems which include how Britain was performing compared to other European competitors‚ how the government failed to control public spending
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was different in every way to the one seen in 1951’ Discuss. The British society in 1975 was ‘certainly’ different from its own self in 1951. But‚ as radically the society changed‚ we cannot say that it was a total departure from the preceding ‘conformist’ state. The early 1970s British society is more or less a more ‘mature’ version of the gradually growing incoherent one that came into existence in the 1950s. Britain in 1951‚ though conservative‚ did acknowledge a new modern world of changes
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in society. These two groups were commonly known as the conservatives and the liberals. Both opposed each others ideas when it came to the subject matter of government in the United States. Among these two groups were some of the greatest men known in history‚ and I am going to talk about two men in particular. Thomas Jefferson‚ a liberal‚ and Alexander Hamilton‚ a conservative‚ shared different ideas on what should become of our government following the creation of our new Constitution. Alexander
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Do you agree with the view that‚ in the years 1964-70‚ the Labour Government’s failures outweighed its successes? One of the most significant failures of the Labour government between the years 1964 and 1970 were the economic difficulties. Source 7 agrees with this very strongly as it states that they had “not got the economy right”. This could be highlighting Labour’s National Plan launched by George Brown‚ the Minister of Economic Affairs at the time‚ in 1965. The Plan aimed to stimulate industrial
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