Britain 1951-2007 AQA A Level Quiz

Why did Macmillan make his speech in Cape Town in 1960?

• To let the white minority regimes know that they could no longer resist reform

• To let the native Africans know that decolonisation was soon coming.

What were Healey's defence cuts designed to do by 1970?

• To cut the defence budget to £2 billion per year

• To make the British army more efficient

• To retreat 'East of Suez'

When did Healey publish his white paper to retreat 'East of Suez'?

• 1965

• 1968

• 1967

• 1966

What did Denis Healey's white paper in 1967 include?

• To cut the defence budget to £2 billion

• To set a timetable for British withdrawal 'East of Suez'

• To not send British troops to Vietnam

• To not intervene in the Rhodesian crisis.

What countries did Britain have troops in 'East of Suez' by the mid 60s?

• Aden

• Malaya

• Singapore

• Burma

• India

What did many on the Labour left like Barbera Castle believe about the EEC?

• That the EEC was a capitalist club that would undermine socialist progress in Britain.

• That the EEC would give rise to a powerful and aggressive Germany again

• That the EEC would ruin British sovereignty

• That the EEC would mean much higher food prices

What did Gaitskell fear about the EEC?

• That the EEC would be the first step to a European federal political union

• That food prices would skyrocket

• That it would ruin the Anglo American relationship

What did Gaitskell passionately say in 1962 at a Labour Party conference?

• That the EEC would "end a thousand years of history"

• That the EEC would "destroy the American alliance"

• That the EEC would "end our abundance of food"

• That the EEC would "end years of Labour's progress"

Why didn't Wilson send troops into Vietnam?

• British public opinion of the war ranged from apathetic to opposed entirely

• Wilson and Johnson personally disliked each other

• The economy was not doing too well in 1964

• Britain lacked spare troops or equipment to send

How did Wilson help the war in Vietnam?

• Wilson helped in Vietnam by being publicly pro-US and supporting their fight against communism

• By not stopping British army volunteers from entering the ANZAC to fight.

• By sending military advisors to help US soldiers in fighting against guerrillas

• By dropping bombs on North Vietnam

• By sending some troops to fight in Vietnam.