The impact of rapidly changing technology | History | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

The Empire Windrush was a...

'ship' ✓
Put the following events into the correct order.

1

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The Second World War ended.

2

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The British government invited people to help rebuild the country.

3

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The Empire Windrush arrived in Britain.

4

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There were riots in Notting Hill in London.
Match the words to their definitions.

discrimination

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treating someone unfairly ✓

riot

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when people are violent and disturb the peace ✓
True or False? The people on the Empire Windrush only came from Jamaica.

True
False ✓
In which year did the Second World War end?

1942

1943

1944

1945 ✓

1946
The Caribbean migrants that travelled to Britain in the years after the Second World War are known as the....

'Windrush Generation' ✓

Match the keyword to the definition.

housewife

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a woman whose main job is looking after the home and family ✓

domestic

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things that are to do with the home ✓

appliance

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an electrical device or machine designed to do a specific task ✓
What was the name of the world’s first electronic computer?

Colossus ✓

Microsoft

Enigma
Televisions did not exist before the Second World War.

True
False ✓
By the 1960s, what percentage of British homes had a TV?

25%

50%

75% ✓

100%
Complete the sentence: Domestic appliances made the work of housewives...

'easier' ✓
Select one word to fill the gaps in this sentence: After the war, ______ women started to work part-time because they wanted to and had __________ free time.

'more' ✓

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During the war, technology changed rapidly, especially in electronics and computing.
For ordinary Britons, this led to the adoption of a wide range of household appliances as these became cheaper.
Television ownership grew quickly, with 75% of households having a TV by the 1960s, making it a common leisure activity.
Other domestic appliances such as fridge-freezers, vacuum cleaners and washing machines all made domestic life easier.
The appliances gave women more time to work, but poorer families did not benefit as much as others.

That being a housewife was an easy role.

Working in the home on domestic tasks for 70 hours a week was more than a full time working week with a paid job.

Housewife - a woman whose main job is caring for her family and doing the domestic tasks at home is a housewife
Domestic - things that are to do with the home are described as domestic
Appliance - an appliance is a machine in the home that is used to do a job such as cleaning or cooking