CHURCHILL COALITION 1940-1945
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- NG: Churchill: 1940-1945
- War Cabinet
- Churchill Atlee Greenwood Chamberlain Halifax Bevin Morrison
- PEARCE: One of the most powerful and effective governments in GB history
- NOTE: Churchill focused mostly on foreign policy and left the rest of the cabinet for domestic policy
- not a lot done domestically - criticized for this
- Churchill Atlee Greenwood Chamberlain Halifax Bevin Morrison
- WW2
- Blitz: Bombing of the UK. London attacked 71 times
- Battle of the Atlantic: Failure of German blockade U boats to stop British exports
- USA gave financial and military aid. Lend lease 1941
- The Beveridge Report 1942
- PEARCE: most important and explosive document on social policy during WW2
- Wanted full employment, family allowances and NHS
- ADDISON: intensified forces for change which had been gathering since 1940
- 1945 Family Allowance Act: 1/4 family incomes insufficient.
- "cradle to grave welfare" insured workers could claim maternity unemployment, sickness, disability, OAP and funeral benefits
- Social impact of WW2
- ACTS INTRODUCED.
- BUTLER EDUCATION ACT 1944
- EMERGENCY POWERS ACT 1940
- RESTRICTION ON ENGAGEMNT ORDER 1940:recruitment through TUs
- 79% women worked in industry. = + 50% working in commerce, armed forces. promoted sense of independance
- Training programmes overcame skill shortages
- almost full employment achieved
- GERMAN BOMBING
- over 1000 casualties
- key industrial areas hit. Southamton
- over 1m children evacuated 1939
- shock, discomfort confusion
- HOWEVER: radio and cinema attendance up escape fear and drudgery of war.
- bread and milk shortages
- disruption food and industrial priduction
- ACTS INTRODUCED.
- Political impact of WW2
- Post war reconstruction: Lord Woolton
- Town and Country planning act
- Post war housing policy
- White paper on NHS
- unemployment benefit and workers compensation
- Tories tied of coalition. Labour wanted dissolve. 1945 parliament dissolved
- More support for Labour?
- promised >nationalisation, Beverdige report immediate effect, economic planning and full employment
- Tories divided, saw reform as socialistic
- Post war reconstruction: Lord Woolton
- Economic impact of WW2
- 1947 general agreements on tariffs and trade: no discrimination and stable rates
- nearly bankrupt. £28,000m absorbed 50% national income.
- Lost 7% pre war housing (bombing)
- LEND LEASE
- Had acquired $11.3 bill. worth US goods by end of war.
- War Cabinet
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