1945 Election

Question 1

Before the election?

Answer 1

• Labour had led the polls on platform of social reform
• The Beveridge Report 1942 (600,000 copies sold)

Question 2

Factors within the election?

Answer 2

1) Labour strengths
2) Leadership
3) Cons weaknesses

Question 3

Labour strengths?

Answer 3

• Platform of social reform
• Attlee
• Work on the war cabinet
• Support of the armed forces
• Large USSR contributions

Question 4

Cons weaknesses?

Answer 4

• Less social reform
• Too much focus on war effort
• Blamed for appeasement
• Only £3,000 spent on publicity

Question 5

Leadership?

Answer 5

• Attlee seen as “working man”
• Attlee and Labour ministers on war cabinet
• Churchill seen as out of touch
• “Gestapo speech”
• Churchill was aged 70

Question 6

Reforms during WW2?

Answer 6

1) National Fire Service (1500 different services combined)
2) Emergency Hospital Service (80% hospital nationalised)
3) Mothers & Children (Diphtheria immunisation, Free milk)

Question 7

What were the “five giants”

Answer 7

1) Want
2) Disease
3) Squalor
4) Ignorance
5) Idleness