Key Events and Ideas that influenced J.B Priestley
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- Key Events and Ideas that influenced J.B Priestley
- 1930: Social Inequality in Britain
- Very concerned for how differently classed people were being unfairly treated.
- A very great distinction between each social class.
- 1942: Priestley sets up the Common Wealth Party
- Discussed public ownership of land.
- Discussed Greater Democracy
- Creating the new 'morality' within politics.
- 1945: Merging with the Labour Party
- Develops the idea of welfare state, to be placed at the end of war.
- Welfare State: System to protect the health and well-being of citizens, especially ones in need
- 1950: Nuclear arms race between East and West
- Believed that future wars would be prevented through cooperation and mutual respect with other countries
- Help found Campaign of Nuclear Disarmament.
- Hoped that Britain would set an example to the world by a moral act of nuclear disarmament.
- 1930: Social Inequality in Britain
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