Austerity and its end 1951-65?
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- Austerity and its End 1951-65
- What was austerity and why was it needed ?
- AUSTERITY: restrictions on what the U.K. Government could spend or British people could buy
- Reasons for austerity
- Debt from WW2
- Rationing
- Limited rebuilding materials
- Increase exports & Decrease imports
- What problems faced the U.K. In the beginning of the 1950s
- RATIONING
- Food, clothes, fuel and others needed in WW2
- AFTER WAR people excepted rationing BUT IT WAS EXTENDED to new materials
- RICH used black market
- POOR got more than before
- CONSERVATIVES used anger of people to win 1951 election
- WELFARE
- 1951 ROWNTREE SURVEY showed that poverty decreased in the U.K.
- HOUSING
- 38 million civilians forced to move
- Limited houses = INCREASE house price
- Rise in marriages 11%
- Baby BOOM 1 million
- Demobilisation of 4 million U.K. Military
- Rise in divorce 12,000-60,000
- 1945 LABOUR proposed to build 200,000 new homes
- Used pre-fans to speed up process
- NEW LAWS
- TOWNS AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1947 - more power to council
- HOUSING ACT 1949 - provided money for modernising
- NEW TOWNS ACT 1946 - 50,000 new houses priority
- RATIONING
- What was austerity and why was it needed ?
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