.Home life-Bereavements, broken marriages
.Housing-bombing of cities, Anderson shelter,halting of housing boom
.Classes-social mobility, middle and upper classes hit harder by higher taxation
Working class had less unemployment and better nutrition
.Children-evacuation,education/ Blitz(Operation Pied Piper)
.Rationing-Battle of the Atlantic, food clothing, health, nutrition
.Propaganda-/Personal freedom-Identity cards,Censorship,Black-outs,Ministry of Information
.Women-working in munitions factories,conscription, leaving homes, Land Girls
.Men-Military Conscription in 1940 (18-41),Armed forces,Home Guard,Civil Defence, National Service
.A Sexual Revolution –
. Culture &Mass entertainment
. Influence of Overseas forces
Conclusion based on How far…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
.How far did the various sections of British society make the sacrifices required for the national war effort ?
.People in general
.Who are the different sections ?
Sacrifices-Wives/families of service men who lost out on pay.
Middle and upper classes-higher taxation
Military Conscription
Rationing-Woolton Pie/Clothes
Personal freedom-censorship,propaganda,Identity cardsMinistry of Information
Older Men-Home Guard/Civil Defence
Unmarried women-Conscription,Leaving Home WVS Land Army
Women-homes,work,pay and conditions,Auxiliary services
Blitz-damage to homes and Evacuation,Indiscriminate bombing
Work-Longer working days,rise in industrial accidents, trade unions had to have compulsory arbitration
Petty crime /Black Market
Looters
Those who were wasteful-Lord Woolton etc ‘Squander bug’
Discrimination in the work place and to overseas forces
Conclusion based on How far…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………