The Sixties-1964-70

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Social and cultural changes 1964-70
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LESSON 1 (LOOK FOR)
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FINSIH SHEET
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1) Define Devaluation
2)Define Deflation
3)Why are these considered
1) deliberate downward adjustment of a country's currency value.
2)Decline in prices for goods and services, typically associated with a contraction in the supply of money and credit in the economy
3)As are to classical economic soloutions
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(Progress towards female equality)
1)When was the equal pay act?
2)Did much change?
1)1970-came in place 1975
2)inequalities and discrimation remained
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(Growth in leisure activites)
1)What % own cars?
2)What became popular?
3)What % in 1969 was tv lesiure time
1)77%
2)garderning,DIY
3)23%
4)1960S holidays and travel lesiure
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(Expanding mazz media)
1)By 1971 what percent of people have a tv?
2)What happned to pirate stations?
3)What happend to Newspaper readership?
1)91%
2)1964-Banned.BBC start to hire former pirated dj
3)readership decline -The sun grew stronger
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(Reaction in censorship)
1)What did george straus intro
2)What was allowd on stage in 1968
3)What changed
1)abolish theatrical censorship-roy jenkins support
2)Nudity
3)Screen violonce and sex acceptable.affted attiudes on these subjects
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(Permissive society)
1)What was indecline?
2)What was more prevalent
3)What tried to stop this?
1)Conventional moral standards encouraged by contraceptive pill-catholic church hostile to pill
2)Cocaine and herion 10x
2)Dangerous drug act 1967 made unlawful to possess drugs-rejected
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(Anti-Vietnam war riots)
1)What happend in 1968?
2)When was vietnam war?
1)Demonstrators had violent scenes .200 people arreseted
30,000 took part reltively peaceful
2)1954–75
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1)Domestic policies
1)Emphesise tech and science
Jenkins minister of aviation-not scientific minded
1966 tony benn took over as minster perform better
costly for developments such as supersonic plane dev with french gov
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1)Define prices and income policy
1)Gov intervention to set up limits on price rises and to call for wage restraint in
negotiations between unions and employers to keep down inflation
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(Issues of immigration and Race)
1)What was commonwealth immigation Act?
FINISH
1)Limits right of return to Britain for non white commonwealth citizens

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1)Effects of Devaluation
2)Effects of Deflation
1)Makes imports more expensive and helps exporters by british goods being cheaper
Lower value of currency in comparison too other changes
2)supports value of pound and prevents inflation,reduce levels of prices in economy
lower prices of goods
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(Progress towards female equality)
1)What caused this?
2)What % of women attend higher education
3)When was family planning act .effect?
1)Second wave of feminism in US in 1963
2)28%,especially middle class,
3)1967-.howver illegement birth rate rose,
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(Impact of Scientific developments)
1)When was first person in space? and land on moon?
2)What was built in 1965?
3)Effect on people?
1)Space-1961 moon-1969
2)Tallest bulding of time to improve telecoms
3)Effect ordinary people as effect day to day lives
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1)Problems wilson faced economicaly?
1)Stuck in "Stop-go"-inflation,run on pound and crisis over.balance of payments
inherit £800 million deficet,sterling crisis 1966,DEA BY george brown not work
Economy dropped by 14%
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1)Main problems faced by wllson and Labour Gov
2)How much defiict was inherited
1)wanting to break away from "Stop-go"
not gain rep of devaluation,inflation
sterling crisis in 1966 ,lag behind countries
2)£800 million
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(Youth culture)
1)relationship with young and old
2)What was used more than illeagl drugs -1969
3)What subcultures was there
1)youg gen argue with older about fashion and moral standards
2)Alchohol,tobacco.caffine
3)Subculture skinheads,hippys
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conservativie weakness (1964)
lack spirit as underminded
Scandels tainting conservative party in 1963-64 weakend integrity and comptence
unemployment reach over 800,000 contradict "never had it so good"
failure to join EEC in 1963 Alec-douglas-home was out of touch with ordinary people
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1)what was the results of 1964 general election
Party seats %
Labour 317 44.1
conservative 304 43.6
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Strenghts of Labour gov(1964)
Presented younger "with it " image in tune with changing times -youthful image
more dynamic image
skilful campaign makes look better fitted for tech age of britain
wilson tapped into needs by
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