Zusammenfassung der Ressource
To what extent was 1945-51 a
"period of gloom."
- Economic
- Yes
- Military expenditure x 5 from
1938-46.
- £4198 million debt.
- 1945 £750 million budget
deficit.
- Cripp's austerity / rationing.
- No
- Marshall Plan: £6000 million
- Wage freeze
stabilised inflation.
- Cold war credentials from nuclear
weapons.
- Social
- Yes
- Harsh winter 1947.
- Dandruff syndrome.
- Tripartite school
system flawed.
- No
- 1948: Bevan compromised with
BMA = NHS.
- Housing e.g. Stevenage.
- Morale high after war.
- Political
- Yes
- Internal Labour divisions - Bevanite
prescription charges. .
- Loss of imperial status.
- No
- NATO
- Indian independence.
- Post-war consensus = collectivism.