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🏥 Attlee's Governments 1945–51 – A-level

History · A-level — the 1945 landslide, the welfare state, the NHS, nationalisation and post-war austerity

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Which Conservative Prime Minister did Clement Attlee defeat in the July 1945 general election?

Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Stanley Baldwin
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In the Beveridge Report of 1942, which of the five giants stood for poor and overcrowded housing?

Ignorance
Idleness
Want
Squalor
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In which year did the National Health Service come into operation?

1948
1946
1945
1951
20s

Which institution became the first to be nationalised by Attlee's government, in 1946?

The railways
The iron and steel industry
The coal mines
The Bank of England
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Which staple food was rationed for the first time in 1946, despite never having been rationed during the war?

Sugar
Butter
Meat
Bread
30s

Who was the last Viceroy of India, overseeing independence and partition in August 1947?

Lord Curzon
Lord Wavell
Lord Mountbatten
Lord Irwin
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Which Act of 1948 formally ended the Poor Law and created a means-tested safety net for those outside insurance?

National Insurance Act
National Assistance Act
Family Allowances Act
Industrial Injuries Act
30s

How did Aneurin Bevan overcome hospital consultants' opposition to the NHS?

Making them salaried employees of local councils
Giving them control of the Ministry of Health
Letting them keep private patients and pay beds
Exempting them from National Insurance payments
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Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Cabinet in April 1951. What triggered their resignations?

NHS charges for dentures and spectacles
The nationalisation of iron and steel
The devaluation of the pound
The withdrawal of British rule from India
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What was striking about Labour's defeat in the October 1951 general election?

The Liberals became the official opposition
Attlee lost his own parliamentary seat
Labour won more votes than the Conservatives
The Conservatives won a majority of over 100
30s