Problems facing Lloyd George's Coalition Government at the end of The Great War. 0.0 / 5 ? HistoryModern Britain - 19th century onwardsA2/A-levelAQA Created by: StephanieCreated on: 07-04-15 13:26 Immediate Problems Forming a Cabinet with old political opponents. Demobilisation of 5m men without creating mass unemployment. Reorganising Govt from wartime to peacetime priorities. 1 of 5 The Economy Moving the Economy back from a wartime to a peacetime basis. Whether to dismantle wartime state control. Whether to restructure key industries like coal and the railways before returning them to private enterprise. What to do about the Staple Industries some of which like Cotton, had suffered during the War from lost markets and under-investment. Also disrupted international economy producing a Slump in 1921 with high unemployment. 2 of 5 Financial How to repay war debts which were at 8 billion and balance the budget once again. At the same time how to pay for social reforms such as better housing, education and social welfare promised in 1918. 3 of 5 Ireland Promise of Home Rule made in 1914 now had to be honoured but Ulster Unionists would not be ruled from Dublin. 1918 Election saw the demise of the moderate Irish Nationalist Party in the South and its replacement Sinn Fein which demanded immediate independence. By 1919 the British were fighting a war with Sinn Fein's military wing - the Irish Republican Army. 4 of 5 Industrial Relations Trade unions doubled membership to 8m by 1920 so much stronger and more militant. 1919-26 saw growing and widespread militancy with miners' strikes, dock and railway strikes, even a police strike in Liverpool. Threat of a General Strike in 1920 and one did occur in 1926. Fear that this militancy might be linked to ideas of Socialist Revolution coming from Soviet Russia. 5 of 5
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