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Flashcards by Adam Collinge, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Adam Collinge
about 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Give four reasons why the Labour won in 1945? | 1) Churchill was complacent 2) Churchill said Labour's socialist policies would never work with a Gestapo 3) The Conservatives didn't recognize how much the people wanted reform 4) Many people remembered the suffering of the 1930's |
| When was the beverage report and what did it say? | December 1942. It said the state should support citizens from cradle to the grave and it should fight the five giants |
| What were the five giants? | 1) Want- people did not have enough basic things, like food 2) Ignorance- lack of a good education 3) Disease- people did not have access to proper healthcare 4) Squalor- people living in poor conditions 4) Idleness- unemployment |
| Name three acts that were designed to fight "want". | 1) 1945 Family Allowance act 2) 1946 National insurance act 3) 1948 National assistance act |
| What did the 1945 Family allowance act say? | Paid mothers 5 shillings a week for every child after the first one |
| What did the 1946 national insurance act say? | Workers and employers paid into the national insurance scheme, which funded unemployment, maternity and sickness benefit, and old age pensions |
| What did the 1948 national assistance act say? | National assistance board set up to help those not covered by national insurance |
| When was the national health service act set up? What did it mean? | 1948. Everyone could use and have any medical facility or supplies. Doctors and Dentists still worked for themselves but had a contract to provide for the NHS |
| Why was there opposition to the NHS? What did this lead to? | Medical professions didn't want to be run by the state. This caused the NHS being set up two years later than originally planned |
| Why did people eventually have to start paying for most of the NHS? | The Government didn't realize how popular or expensive it would be |
| How did the Government try to fix the problem of the free NHS? | Introduced prescription charges (but not for the poor) |
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