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prime ministers 1950 to 2007 - Coggle Diagram
prime ministers 1950 to 2007
Winston Churchill 1951 to 1955
4 years
conservative
econamy geting better after war
tax cuts before 1955 election
!st booklet
famous wartime leader
credited for Allied
victory in World War II
seemed to be too old as he was
77 when he took power in 1951
he was often a sickly leader
post war consensus
Anthony Eden 1955 to 1957
2 years
suez crisis 1956
caused him to resign
held responsible
conservative
!st booklet
served as the Foreign Secretary under Churchill
post war consensus
Harold Macmillan 1957 to 1963
6 years
cabnet reshufal 1963
conservative
aply to join EEC in 1963
rejected by french president
!st booklet
post war consensus
Alec Douglas-Home 1963 to 1964
1 year
conservative
!st booklet
he wasn't in power long
didn't really have time to implement any kind of policy he was defeated in October
Harold Wilson 1964 to 1970
6 years
labour
open university
supported vietnam war but didnt send troops
1967 applied to join EEC
vetoed by the french president
Edward Heath 1970 to 1974
4 years
conservative
enter EEC in 1973
300 children attack british armed forces in derry n ireland
Harold Wilson 1974 to 1976
2 years
labour
rererndom vote to stay in EEC
James Callaghan 1976 to 1979
3 years
labour
Margaret Thatcher 1979 to 1990
11 years
conservative
falklands
section 28
eurosceptic
John Major 1990 to 1997
7 years
conservative
black wednessday
Tony Blair 1997 to 2007
10 years pm
labour
irac war
post war consensus
1951 to 1964
broad support for the British welfare state
importance of NHS and support "from Cradle to grave"
expansion of the welfare state
support for government intervention in the economy to ensure Max growth in this Period
foreign policy consensus on supporting the USA in opposition to the USSR and communism
at the height of the Cold War
Broad consensus on the Independence of the colonies
the final breakup of the British Empire
you see the final breakdown the British Empire in the 50s 60s and 70s
the conservatives in 1951 to 1964
successes Conservatives
economic policies broadly successful
low unemployment
increase in standard of living
the Conservatives associated with the "new Elizabethan age" with Elizabeth being crowned in 1953
Britain was still a world power
they had nuclear weapons
new atomic era
one of the few countries that had nuclear weapons
improvements in housing market
300,000 homes being built
per annum under Churchill
economic success
6000 new houses were built during the Period
the first motorways were also built during this time
part of the M1 was built in 1959
linked to conservative governments
a new large development
labour's failures
1950s labour party was split
over extent of support of defense spending
and over development of nuclear weapons
huge opposition to the
development of nuclear weapons
opposition to the Conservative Party
and within the Labour Party
Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell died suddenly in 1963
people did not want this post War consensus prosperity to end
so they didn't want change
affluent Society