Domestic politics 1940-51
Cards (56)
- Auxiliary Territorial Service established
- Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence established
- Women's Land Army established
- Britain declares war on Germany
- Women's Royal Naval Service re-established
- Emergency Medical Service
- Emergency Hospital Scheme
- 'Dig for Victory' campaign
- Phoney War
- Rationing of meat, butter, sugar and tea
- Britain lays mines in Norwegian waters
- Parliamentary debate on Norway
- Chamberlain resigns and Churchill becomes PM
- Operation Dynamo (Evacuation of Dunkirk)
- Barlow Report
- Extension of conscription to childless widows and single women aged 20 to 30
- Post-War Problems Committee
- Atlantic Charter
- Army Bureau of Current Affairs
- US Lend-Lease programme
- Limit of 5 shillings per meal introduced in restaurants
- Publication of Beveridge Report
- Uthwatt Report
- Scott Report
- Bengal famine
- Siege of Dunkirk
- White paper on land use
- Full employment in a Free Society report
- Town and Country Planning Act
- Housing (temporary accommodation) Act
- Butler Act
- Reid report
- Family Allowance Act
- UN created
- Nationalisation of the Bank of England
- Nationalisation of Civil Aviation
- National Insurance Act
- USA loan of £3750 billion
- Severe winter brings about fuel crisis
- Nationalisation of Coal (National Coal Board)