AQA A-LEVEL HISTORY 7042/2S – THE
MAKING OF MODERN BRITAIN, 1951–2007
FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2026/2027 LATEST UPDATE
Mass Picketing - ✔✔✔ANSWER-a large number of individuals parading
in front of a company to advertise their labor dispute.
Race Relations Act - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The act passed in 1965 and
1968 to tackle Racism
Thatcherism - ✔✔✔ANSWER-the economic policy of British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher, which limited social welfare and restricted
union power
Monetarism - ✔✔✔ANSWER-A theory that government should
control the money supply to encourage economic growth and
restrain inflation.
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,Ronald Reagan - ✔✔✔ANSWER-USA President during the 1980s
Wild Cat Strikes - ✔✔✔ANSWER-A strike declared and staged
without filing the required notice of strike and without the majority
approval of the recognised bargaining agent.
In Place of Strife - ✔✔✔ANSWER-a white paper which called for
relatively moderate reforms of collective bargaining
Robbins Report - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The report that developed higher
education in particular universities in 1963
Winston Churchill - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1951 - 1955
Anthony Eden - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1955 - 1957 Harold
Macmillan - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1957 - 1963
Alec Douglas-Home - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1963 - 1964
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, Harold Wilson - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1964 - 1970
Edward Heath - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1970 - 1974
Harold Wilson - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1974 - 1976
Harold Macmillan - 1951 - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Housing Minister under
Churchill
1969 - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The year of in Place of Strife
SDP - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Social Democratic Party
Neil Kinnock - ✔✔✔ANSWER-leader of Labour in 1983
Michael Foot - ✔✔✔ANSWER-left wing leader of Labour in 1980
Hugh Gaitskell - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Leader of Labour 1955 - 1963 Dennis
Healey - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1 974 -
1979
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MAKING OF MODERN BRITAIN, 1951–2007
FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2026/2027 LATEST UPDATE
Mass Picketing - ✔✔✔ANSWER-a large number of individuals parading
in front of a company to advertise their labor dispute.
Race Relations Act - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The act passed in 1965 and
1968 to tackle Racism
Thatcherism - ✔✔✔ANSWER-the economic policy of British Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher, which limited social welfare and restricted
union power
Monetarism - ✔✔✔ANSWER-A theory that government should
control the money supply to encourage economic growth and
restrain inflation.
1
,Ronald Reagan - ✔✔✔ANSWER-USA President during the 1980s
Wild Cat Strikes - ✔✔✔ANSWER-A strike declared and staged
without filing the required notice of strike and without the majority
approval of the recognised bargaining agent.
In Place of Strife - ✔✔✔ANSWER-a white paper which called for
relatively moderate reforms of collective bargaining
Robbins Report - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The report that developed higher
education in particular universities in 1963
Winston Churchill - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1951 - 1955
Anthony Eden - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1955 - 1957 Harold
Macmillan - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1957 - 1963
Alec Douglas-Home - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1963 - 1964
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, Harold Wilson - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1964 - 1970
Edward Heath - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1970 - 1974
Harold Wilson - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Prime Minister from 1974 - 1976
Harold Macmillan - 1951 - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Housing Minister under
Churchill
1969 - ✔✔✔ANSWER-The year of in Place of Strife
SDP - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Social Democratic Party
Neil Kinnock - ✔✔✔ANSWER-leader of Labour in 1983
Michael Foot - ✔✔✔ANSWER-left wing leader of Labour in 1980
Hugh Gaitskell - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Leader of Labour 1955 - 1963 Dennis
Healey - ✔✔✔ANSWER-Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1 974 -
1979
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