Questions for Unit 10 (Post-Imperial Britain)

1. What was the Constitutional Crisis of 1911 about? How was it resolved? What role did King Charles II play in resolving the crisis, even though he had been dead for more than two centuries at the time?
2. What and when was the Battle of Britain? Who should have won it? Why did the other side win it instead?
3. What was the state of the UK economy in the mid 1970s?
4. What were Margaret Thatcher’s main political objectives when she came to office? Did she achieve them? Who was president of the USA for most of the time that she was Prime Minister of the UK?
5. What was the Falklands War about? When did it take place? What valuable lesson did surgeons learn from it about how to save the lives of people with severe injuries?