938020
Description
Britain at war
- Censorship and propaganda
- Led by Ministry of Information
- Mass Observation
monitored public opinion
- Propaganda
- Encouraged joining voluntary
services
- Warned of careless talk
- Encouraged thrift +
discouraged wasting resources
- Encouraged joining voluntary
services
- Censorship
- Newspapers to raise morale
- Daily Worker banned 1941
- Newspapers to raise morale
- Led by Ministry of Information
- Rationing
- At beginning, only food for 1 in 3
- U-boats stopped imports
- Ration books + coupons Jan 1940
- Points system introduced
- Lord Woolton produced recipes to
make food with rations (Woolton pie)
- Butter, bacon, sugar
first
- Vegetables not rationed
- Food grown wherever possible
- At beginning, only food for 1 in 3
- Women
- Work
- Male conscription led to
vacancies
- Filled voluntarily at first - conscription 1941
- 57% workers female, 9 in 10 single
women in work by 1943
- Munitions common
- 80,000 in Women's Land Army -
agricultural work (basic)
- Male conscription led to
vacancies
- Armed forces
- Auxiliary Territorial Service
- Women's Auxiliary Air Force
- Women's Royal Naval Service
- Special Operations Executive
- Use of radar, searchlights, mapping,
reconnaissance missions etc.
- Auxiliary Territorial Service
- Effects
- More freedom
- More employment
- No equal pay (Equal Pay
Commission no power)
- Ministry of Health refused to
set up nurseries
- Return to traditional values
after war
- More freedom
- Work
- D-Day, 6 Jun 1944
- British, American, Canadian troops
landed on beaches in Normandy
- Sword, Juno, Gold - British + Canadian, Omaha
+ Utah - American
- Reached Paris in 6 weeks
- Reasons for success
- Thorough planning since 1942, Mulberry harbours +
Pluto pipeline in place
- Decoy bombings in Calais to deter Hitler
- Air control to escort fleet
- Panzers forbidden to oppose invasion
- Thorough planning since 1942, Mulberry harbours +
Pluto pipeline in place
- British, American, Canadian troops
landed on beaches in Normandy
- Defeat of Germany
- Eastern Front - Soviets pushed back Germans after Leningrad;
May 1945 Berlin captured
- Americans advanced on a broad front
- Operation Market Garden (sending paratroopers)
failed - Arnhem was not captured due to logistical problems
- Battle of Bulge Dec 1944 - Germans nearly made a
breakthrough but were defeated
- Surrender 8 May 1945
- Eastern Front - Soviets pushed back Germans after Leningrad;
May 1945 Berlin captured
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