most important domestic reform passed by Clement Attlee’s Labour government of 1945-1950? Post war Britain was in shambles. Altogether‚ 50-70 million people were dead as a result of World War 2 and 33% of all houses were lost in the war. However‚ Labour shocked Britain when they overtook the Conservative Party in the 1945 elections. Historians argue Churchill’s laid back attitude was the cause of the war leaders’ failure in the elections. Attlee passed many reforms during his reign. The
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Was Atlee a truly revolutionary PM? A revolution is defined as forcible overthrow of a government or social order for a new system. Atlee did not do this in my opinion. Atlee and the Labour party were in power post World War II‚ for six years. In these six years they introduced many reforms. Whether these reforms were revolutionary is very debatable. Perhaps‚ the most ‘revolutionary’ reform that Labour introduced was the NHS. Although there was liberal influence and consensus between the parties
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However‚ in the general election of 1945‚ it achieved a spectacular recovery. The period of 1945-1951 witnessed unprecedented political economic and social achievements of the first majority labour party in Britain. Labour‚ under Clement Attlee‚ started enacting the measures that had been its program since the beginning of the century. Nationalization of railroads and coal mines‚ which were in such terrible situation that any government would have had to bring them under state control
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How successful were the Labour Government reforms of 1945-51 in improving social and economic conditions? From 1945 to 1951‚ Clement Attlee was prime minister of the Labour Government. He aimed to improve the Social and Economic Conditions. The main aims to improve the social conditions were: to create a fairer society and improve the lives of ordinary people‚ build on the recommendations of the Beveridge Report‚ and slay the five giants (Want‚ Disease‚ Squalor‚ Ignorance‚ and Idleness). The main
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(for part B): Do you agree with the view that the outcome of the election of 1945 was ‘a foregone conclusion before electioneering even started’ (Source 5‚ line 32–33)? Do you agree with the view expressed in Source 6 that the achievements of the Attlee Government were remarkable? Do you agree with the view that Labour governments in the years 1945–51 established a society with ‘a significantly greater degree of social equality’? Do you agree with the view that the introduction of the National
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“The main reason for Conservative dominance between the years 1951-1964 was Labour disunity” assess the validity of this view. Labour disunity was undoubtedly significant and contributed hugely to the Conservative party’s ability to dominate politically throughout this period. However‚ it would be wrong to argue that divisions within the Labour party are alone responsible for this. Other reasons include poor Labour leadership‚ the strength of the Conservatives and affluence between the years 1951-1964
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Why did the Conservatives loose the general election of 1945? The conservatives lost the general election in 1945 for a number of reasons some of which were the attitudes of many of the British after the war and the way the country had been run in the time leading up to the election. The labour party had gone from a party which people feared as being socialist to a party which during the war had shown was very much a balanced party which would not ruin the middle and upper classes and yet provide
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issues: • Women played a major role in WW2 and were permanent in the industries now. • Political conflict between the war time coalition governments Churchill PM Conservative‚ Attlee DPM Labour: 1) The war-time coalition between the Conservatives (led by PM Winston Churchill) and Labour (led by Deputy PM Clement Attlee) broke up in 1945 over the question of the nature of the British society in the future. 2) The Conservatives would have been happy for a return to the inter-war practice of leaving
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State? How successfully did the Labour Government deal with Britain’s social problems after WW2? How significant an impact did the welfare reforms of the Labour Government 1945 – 1951 have on the lives of the British people? KEY FIGURES 1 Clement Attlee (Labour Prime Minister 1945 – 51) Hugh Dalton (Chancellor of the Exchequer) Aneurin Bevan (Health & Housing Minister) KEY EVENTS 1 Beveridge Report published (1942) White Papers on Education‚ Health‚ Employment & Insurance (1943 – 4)
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unwilling to accept the reality. Nonetheless‚ the younger generation‚ represented by Jimmy Porter in the play‚ was more realistic in terms of new world order and the changing balance of power. As a result of this‚ such young realistic people elected Clement Attlee and his Labor party to power. The new government tried to nationalize all major British industries and granted the independence to India so the people could become economically more mobile‚ but Britain was suffering one of the harshest economic
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