KQ1 QUIZ

• When was the Beveridge Report?

  1942
• What did the Beveridge Report identify?

  Five giants that needed to be tackled : the 1945 labour government promised to solve them
• What were the five giants?

  want, ignorance, squalor, disease, idleness
• what was austerity?

  restrictions on what the government could spend
• what were the reasons for post-war rationing?

  -Britain had huge debts from the war 3,500 million in 1945

  -Britain had to export more than it imported

  -limited materials were available for rebuilding after war
• Rationing facts

  -after 1945 rationing extended to include bread and potatoes

  -rationing came to an end in 1954

  -Conservatives won the 1955 election and promised to never return to rationing

  -a rationed diet was far healthier than people had eaten before the war
• What industries did labour nationalise and when?


  1947- coal, electricity

  1948- gas, transport
• By 1951 how many people worked for a newly nationalised industry?


  1 in 10
• how many houses were destroyed after war time bombing?

  500,000
• how many houses were badly damaged after war time bombing?


  3 million
• how many houses did Aneurin Bevan promise to build a year?

  200,000 new houses