POST WAR BRITAIN

Gabriela RubianoPaula Perez

Paula Suarez

• As west Germany pursued free-market polices, Great Britain moved in the opposite direction. In 1945 British voters rejected Winston Churchill`s conservative party. The Labour party, a moderate socialist party, formed Britain`s postwar government.

WELFARE STATE

• A state in which the government takes primary responsibility for the social welfare of its citizens. The British government provided free medical care for everyone. It nationalized the Bank or England, coal mines, railroads, and utilities. It did not, however, interfere with most industry, which remained privately owned.

ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

• (after the war)• Many workers had died in the war.• Some scientists and managers had emigrated

to australia ,canada, or the united states.• After the war great britain lost valuable

colonies and posseions.• The cost of its remaining overseas

commitments was a heavy burden.

Winston churchill•He was the prime minister.•He reverset some of the Labour governmet ‘s nationalization policies .•The general outlines of the British welfare state remained in place under the conservatives.

Decline

•One cause of this decline was the shift in the world economy from coal to oil and nuclear power as energy resources.

•The Labour Party blamed the conservatives for the poor economy, but it did no better when holding the majority itself.

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