Attlee- 1945-1951: Strengths, Weaknesses & Crisis
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- Attlee- 1945-1951
- Strengths
- Founding of the Welfare State
- NHS/ National Assistance/ National Insurance
- US Loan Agreement
- Nationalisation- 20%
- September 1948- 750,000 New homes built
- Avoided mass unemployment after WW2
- Butler- Cut income and purchase tax- popular
- Devaluation of £- high exports
- Women in employment
- School leaving age raised to 15- April 1947
- Post- war consensus helped politics
- Founding of the Welfare State
- Weaknesses
- WW2 End- bankrupt Britain
- End of Lend-Lease in 1945
- Fuel Crisis- 1946/7
- 'Festival of Britain' 1951- ridiculed by press/Conservatives
- Internal Government discontenet
- Relaxation of Controls
- Response to dissatisfied public
- Foreign Commitments
- Troops still in the occupation/division of Germany
- Aid to Greece/ Turkey
- People taking advantage of NHS
- Population increasingly restive
- Nearly a decade of rationing and shortages.
- CRISIS
- Devaluation of the £- convertibility halted in 1949
- Fuell Crisis- 1947- Coldest winter in living memory.
- Shiver with Shinwell
- March 1947- Flooding
- November 1947- Chancellor Hugh Dalton resigned
- Rationing continued- petrol + potatoes
- Conservatives ahead in opinion polls- first time since 1945
- Balance of Payments Crisis
- 1949- Imports> Exports
- No longer possible to buy and sell £ in July- STERLING CRISIS
- Exchangeable £/$
- Need to accept convertibility as part of the US agreement
- Short-term plan to pay for the new Britain
- Need to accept convertibility as part of the US agreement
- Exchangeable £/$
- Strengths
- Convertibility stopped in August 1947
- Need to accept convertibility as part of the US agreement
- Short-term plan to pay for the new Britain
- Need to accept convertibility as part of the US agreement
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