Analyze the economic and social recovery programs Clement Attlee's Labour Party instituted after the war.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Taking over after Churchill in 1945, the Labour Party established a policy that was somewhat isolationist in nature with regard to Great Britain. The feeling was that the people of Britain had been told to suffer and work to help other people for a long period of time, and now it was the government's turn to repay that. Attlee set about creating state-run institutions that were the basis of the welfare state in Britain, including nationalized medicine, social security, a Bank of England, and nationalized infrastructure such as transportation, coal, and steel industries. An educational mandate was passed that required public education until at least age fifteen and that provided funds to build schools and paid tuition for eligible students to go to university. The sweeping welfare measures worked both because of the conciliatory mood of the Conservatives, who continued the policies of the Labour Party after they came to power in the 1950s, and also because of the economic funds available through the Marshall Plan.
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Examine the factors that facilitated the emergence of a national middle-class culture during the 1950s, and discuss the characteristics of that culture.
What will be an ideal response?
This 1946 photograph of striking steel workers demonstrates that
A) the strikers were focused on shortening the work week. B) the strike eventually turned violent. C) the strikers did not support returning U.S. veterans. D) the labor movement had become more integrated. E) the labor movement had been infiltrated by communists.
The Yellow Turbans showed that Daoism ________
A) was more popular than Confucianism B) could run counter to central power C) was essentially opposed to imperial control D) often came into conflict with Buddhism
At the Battle of ________ in May 1863, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson was wounded and subsequently died of pneumonia.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).