W1- the impact of WW2 and 1945 election

who does Churchill replaced and why + party

Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain

Chamberlain was for the Munich agreement and the appeasement

Churchill discredited Chamberlain

Churchill was inspirational during difficult times

chamberlain was conservative as Churchill

from when to when Churchill was prime minister

from 1940 to 1945

coalition

may 1940: coalition government

National emergency → national unity

Labours minister + what happen with the coalition

Clement Attlee : deputy prime minister

Ernest Bevin : minister of Labour

Herbert Morrison : Minister for supply

until then only 2 minority government

→ gained credibility as leader

The people’s war

solidarity / sacrifice (rationing)

economy: from laissez-faire to centralized planning

date of the Beveridge Report

published in december 1942

what were the recommendations of the Beveridge Report

before: disorganized patchwork of local schemes

reco: a national system of compulsory social insurance, financed by contributions to provide people with subsistence-level field

destroy the 5 giants

the Five Giants

Want (poverty)

disease

idleness (unemployment)

squalor

ignorance

the reception

opinion poll : 86% in favor

major changes but not revolutionary ideologically

Labour 1945 campaign

pledged to implement Beveridge

people’s war → people deserved a fairer society

embraced keynesiasism

conservative campaign

embarassed by Beveridge

very negative & agressive rhetoric to attack labour

the 1945 general election result

5th of July 1945

first overall majority in HoC for Labour

PM: Clement Attlee