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Summary Britain politics from 1945 to 1990
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Britain politics from 1945 to 1990Labour - 1945: Attlee (1945-51)
- After war, sense of equality and wanting things to get better (the Blitz, rationing,
classes mixed, fair share for all = Labour)
- Conservatives were not trusted - unfulfilled promises (housing problems, Churchill's
overconfidence, not always in the country)
- Labour = landslide victory
- Attlee encouraged discussion, wanted everyone to participate
Beveridge Report 1942 = social security
THE 5 GIANTS HOW THEY WERE TACKLED
Want Family Allowance Act 1945
National Insurance Act 1946
- for unemployed, old people, poor
families, widows...
= family allowances, pensions for old
people, unemployment benefit
Ignorance Education Act 1944
- free education up to 15
- easier for the poorest children
Squalor Huge need for houses after the war
= new towns were built outside cities +
prefabs
= towns were vandalised but prefabs
were quite liked
Disease National Health Service 1948
“Theoretically an admirable idea. In
practice - bound to difficulties”
Idleness Industrial injuries act 1946
GB faced with big economic problems : 1947 crisis
wanted to pay for the new Jerusalem (paradise promised)
- After the Japanese bombings, US ended Lend Lease and asked for repayment.
- US also asked GB to : - float the pound against the dollar
-lift any restriction on money : dollar imperialism
Minister Cripps proposed austerity as a solution:
-very high taxation
-rationing continued
1947: coldest winter = starvation
National Health Service
- Marshall Aid made it possible (wasn’t all altruistic, US wanted to keep its economy
flamboyant)
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