12. Thanks to the militant feminist movement of the ____led by Mrs. Pankhurst before the First World War, votes were granted to women over 30 in 1918.
A. Luddites
B. Suffragettes
C. Chartists
D. Levellers
13. The spark of the First World War was struck at Sarajevo on June 28, ____, when the Austrian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.
A. 1913
B. 1914
C. 1915
D. 1916
14. As a result of the First World War settlement the ____was established in 1920.
A. League of Nations
B. British Commonwealth
C. British East India Company
D. United Nations
15. After World War I political unrest in Britain led to ____general elections in just over 5 years.
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
16. The Blitz radically changed the face of London for the first time since ____nearly 3 centuries earlier.
A. the Black Death
B. the Great Fire
C. the Civil War
D. the Great Plague
17. The foundations of ____was laid in the late 1940s, providing free medical care for everyone and financial help for the old, the sick and the unemployed.
A. the welfare state
B. the National Health Service
C. the compulsory education
D. the Women's Liberation Movement
18. In the 1960s Pop music underwent a revolution when the Beatles became
world famous and turned their hometown of ____into a place of pilgrimage.
A. Manchester
B. Blackpool
C. Liverpool
D. Sheffield
19. The 1970s saw the growth of ___in Wales and Scotland.
A. liberalism
B. Marxism
C. chauvinism
D. nationalism
20. Margaret Thatcher believed in the following except____.
A. self-reliance
B. the strengthening of trade unions
C. privatization
D. the use of monetary policies to control inflation
Keys: 1.B 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.D 6.C 7. A 8.C 9. D 10.D 11.A 12.B 13.B 14.A 15.C 16.B 17.A 18.C 19.D 20.B
