OCR History Britain 1951–1997

Unit Y113 - Detailed Notes on British Period Study: Britain 1951–1997
Including: Reasons for the Conservative victory 1951; social changes,
immigration, unrest, social mobility and tensions, education,
living standards, housing, prosperity and unemployment;
Conservative economic policies, Butskellism, industrial growth
and stagflation; Conservative leadership of Churchill, Eden,
Macmillan and Home; scandals including the Vassall affair,
Philby, Argyll and Profumo; reasons for Conservative decline;
Labour leadership, divisions and electoral failures of the Labour
Party, Labour victory 1964, Wilson as leader 1964–1970; economic
problems and policies; relations with the Trade Unions; Labour
party divisions; 1970 election, Heath as party leader and Prime
Minister; aims and policies of Heath’s government; industrial
relations, miners’ strike; Wilson and Callaghan 1974–1979,
problems and policies 1974–1979. Election victories; Thatcher and her ministers; reasons
for support and opposition; social and economic policies
including monetarism, free-market, supply-side economics
and privatisation; social policies and unrest; unemployment
and the Trade Unions, the Miners’ Strike; fall of Thatcher and
replacement with Major; Conservative divisions under Major
and electoral defeat 1997. 97 Relations with and policies towards the USA and the USSR;
Britain’s influence at the UN; role in Europe; nuclear policy;
response to crises: Korean War, Suez, the Falklands War,
First Gulf War; decolonisation and changing attitudes to the
Commonwealth.