The impact of WWII on Britain?

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  • The UK was massively in debt to America
  • Items rationed during WWII
    • Food
    • Clothes
    • Furniture
    • Petrol
  • The purpose of the Beveridge Report was to suggest ways that Britain could be better after the war, focusing on squalor, want, idleness, disease, and ignorance
  • Hospitals were taken over during WWII
  • Evacuation took place during WWII
  • Rationing made everyone equal as they ate the same
  • The 1945 election was a landslide
  • The Bevin Boys were conscripted to work in the coal mines
  • GB's loss of status after WWII
  • Rationing during WWII
  • Taxation went up to 50% after WWII
  • PAYE in 1939 was 25% and goes up to 50%
  • WWII caused a questioning of women's rights and places in society as gender roles changed
  • Women were working in factories, nursing, and farming as part of the 'Land Army'
  • The Blitz was a social leveller, with even the Palace being bombed
  • Britain lost markets abroad
  • Consription for men and women during WWII
  • End reliance on imports and all efforts went into the war
  • The plan called Lend Lease
  • The impact of WWII on Britain
  • Emergency hospitals scheme was implemented during WWII
  • Government control was seen as a positive thing post-WWII, e.g. nationalism
  • Hard, manual jobs received more ration
  • Labour became more popular following WWII
  • The Beveridge Report was published in 1942
  • Baby boom occurred after the end of the war, leading to the Baby Boomers generation
  • The Beveridge Report suggested solutions like Council Housing, Benefit system/Welfare state, Nationalisation, NHS, and Secondary Education