Labour’s 1945 promises
Build homes, welfare, nationalise key industries.
Welfare state components
NHS, benefits, pensions.
Rationing extension
Extended beyond wartime into the postwar years.
Nationalisations policy
State owns key industries like steel and coal.
1951 Conservative campaign focus
More homes, criticising high military costs.
Postwar economic trend
Prosperity, consumerism, full employment.
Relative decline indicator
Slow GDP growth, reliance on old industries.
Decolonization impact
Shift from empire to Commonwealth, power decline.
Suez Crisis cause
Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
Suez Crisis outcome
Eden resigned; Britain’s power diminished.
EEC creation
Treaty of Rome, 1957.
Britain’s EEC entry
Vetoed by de Gaulle in 1961.
Scandal that ended Eden’s career
Suez Crisis.
Profumo Affair
1963 scandal involving a government minister.
Wilson’s modernization phrase
White heat of the technological revolution.
Consumerism development
More goods, credit, travel after 1954.
Class change in Britain
Welfare and WWII reduced differences, class persists as mindset.
Youth culture in 1950s
Teenagers, rock ’n’ roll, moral panic.
Teddy Boys
Working-class youth subculture, fashion, music.
Protest and satire impact
Less respect for authority, scandals, TV shows.
Deference decline factors
Scandals, TV satire, youth rebellion.
Postwar consensus
Agreement on welfare, economy, and nationalisation.
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1. What was a central aim of Labour’s post-1945 programme under Attlee?
2. Which problem is most closely associated with Labour’s 1945–51 government?
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