AQA A-Level History Britain 1851 to 1964 overview quiz quiz

Roughly doubled the electorate by enfranchising many urban working men

Gave the vote to all adult men and women right across the whole country at once

Abolished the House of Lords and its veto entirely

Introduced the secret ballot to end open voting

It lowered the minimum voting age for men in elections

It introduced the secret ballot, ending open voting

It enfranchised women for the very first time

It abolished all remaining property qualifications

Peel and Russell

Asquith and Lloyd George

Gladstone and Disraeli

Attlee and Churchill

Free university education for all working-class families

Old age pensions and nothing else at all

Council housing for the whole population

Sickness and limited unemployment in certain trades

Removed the Lords' veto over money bills and limited its delaying power

Created the House of Commons for the first time as a brand new elected chamber

Gave women the vote on the same terms as men

Abolished the monarchy and made Britain a republic

All adults over the age of 18, both women and men

Women over 30 with a property qualification and nearly all men over 21

Only men who owned a substantial amount of property and land in a constituency

Women on fully equal voting terms with men at last

The Conservative Party

The Labour Party

The Liberal Party

The Irish Nationalists

The Bank of England as a new institution

The League of Nations in Geneva

The Parliament Act limiting the Lords

The National Health Service

Broad agreement on the welfare state, mixed economy and full employment

A cross-party agreement to abolish the welfare state completely after the war

A formal coalition government of the main parties

Unanimous all-party support for full nationalisation

The final end of the British Empire across the world

The start of large-scale post-war Caribbean migration to Britain

The return home of wartime evacuees from the countryside

The beginning of decolonisation and full independence across British India

Blood, toil, tears and sweat

The wind of change

Never had it so good

Peace for our time