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29 Cards in this Set
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HM Hyndman
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Translated Marx into English
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Fabians
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Lower middle class
Everyone should work, should not inherit money or land Government should be competitive |
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New Unionism
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Now unskilled workers, not skilled
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Match-girls' Strike
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1888
Poisonous conditions... Anne Besant = leader |
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Dock Workers' Strike
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1889
Wanted more money Docks paralyzed Started a relief fund for the strikers |
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Keir Hardie
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Labor leaders gain experience through unions/strikes, run for office
Scottish Miner Very different from other MPs |
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Bradford Labour Conference and the ILPs platform
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Foundation of the ILP
1893 Tax reform, redistribute wealth Free ed |
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Lib-Lab
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Labouring men but supported by liberals during ILP's formation and challenges it
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Gladstone-MacDonald Pact
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1903
Liberal party agrees to not run candidate where labour candidate is strong and vice-versa... they will then vote for each other's policies |
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General election of 1906
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Return of the liberal government because Labour MPs are numerous
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Henry Campell-Bannerman
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PM 1906-1908
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Asquith
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PM 1908-1915
"wait and see" |
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Winston Churchill
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Wants "new liberalism" - better world for all (minimum wage, economic and social welfare)
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David Lloyd George
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Must fund Churchill's scheme; new sources of taxation; "the people's budget"
- Tax land and the wealthy |
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Women's Social and Political Union
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Recruits working class women
Pankhurst sisters |
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Emily Davison
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Threw herself in front of a race track - martyr for women's rights
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Cat and Mouse Act
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Women started hunger strikes in jail...the government does not want them dying in jail so they release the women... then jail them again... then realease them
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Suffragist/Suffragette
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Suffragist - change constitution
Suffragette - going to extreme for suffrage (Emily Davison) |
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British Expeditionary Force
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Government expects a short war so they start with a traditional army (expeditionary force)...then need recruits
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Defense of the Realm Act
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Suspends all sorts of civil liberties
(1) no trial by jury (2) limits rights of unions (3) 8 hr work day for miners suspended (4) gov't can take over industries (5) rationing of staple goods |
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New Left Book Club
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People who wanted change and read the works of Marx, Orwell, B Potter
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Collective Security
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If any other country is attacked, other nations come to their defense
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Appeasement
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Chamberlain tries to give a little bit to Hitler...but Hitler keeps going...
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Munich Pact
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1938
Gives Germany part of Czecholslovakia...6 months later, Hitler violates the Pact |
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Churchill's War Gov't
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Conservatives and Labour
Ignored domestic affairs |
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JB Priestley
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BBC
wartime more important than private property |
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Beveridge Report
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1942
Identified 5 major problems in British society |
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Attlee's Labour Gov't
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1945-1951
Welfare: (1) social wage: support poor wage people (2) Council housing: local political unit (3) NHS: free healthcare Social policy: (1) Grammar schools - free education for working-class (2) Secondary modern schools: provided better and larger education for those not going to college Economic: (1) nationalization: coal, power nationalized |
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Thatcher
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"resolute approach" - fight for yourself and get to work; dismantles welfare state
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