The impact of WWII on Britain?

• 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