Starter quiz
- When was the Second World War?
- 1899-1902
- 1914-1918
- 1945-1991
- 1939-1945 ✓
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- The name of Britain's war-time leader during the Second World War was Winston...
- 'Churchill' ✓
- Which of the following were political parties in Britain at the end of the Second World War?
- Conservative Party ✓
- Green Party
- Labour Party ✓
- Liberal Party ✓
- Republican Party
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- The letters NHS stand for ______ Health Service.
- 'National' ✓
- Which of these words would you think could be used to mean 'poverty', not having what you need to have a basic standard of living?
- disease
- idleness
- ignorance
- squalor
- want ✓
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- Which class or group of people was the Labour Party originally set up to help?
- working class ✓
- middle class
- upper class
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Exit quiz
- How many people were moved from British cities to the countryside at the start of World War Two (WW2)?
- 0.5 million
- 1 million
- 1.5 million ✓
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- The term for a system which protects the health and well-being of its citizens is a ______ state.
- 'welfare' ✓
- What is the term for a general agreement amongst opposition parties?
- 'consensus' ✓
- By how many seats did the Labour Party win the 1945 General Election?
- 126
- 136
- 146 ✓
- 156
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- The Beveridge Report wanted the government to provide care ...
- 'from childhood to retirement'
- 'from education to employment'
- 'from the cradle to the grave' ✓
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- Which of the following were issues mentioned in the Beveridge Report?
- disease ✓
- famine
- ignorance ✓
- pestilence
- squalor ✓
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Key learning points
- At the end of WW2, Britain was in a desperate state, an election was called, leading to a landslide Labour victory.
- The Labour leader, Clement Attlee, signalled the government's desire to make post-war Britain a 'New Jerusalem'.
- After WW2, many British people wanted aspects of state control to remain.
- The Labour government aimed to implement recommendations from the Beveridge Report.
- Beveridge argued that the state had a duty to provide protection to people from "cradle to grave".
Common misconception
Students may aassume William Beveridge was a member of the Labour Party.
William Beveridge was actually a member of the Liberal Party.
Keywords
Consensus - a general agreement among opposition parties
Manifesto - a written declaration of a party’s policies, produced before an election
Nationalisation - taking privately controlled companies and industries and putting them under government control
Landslide - in politics, the overwhelming majority of votes for one party in an election
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