history of youth

Question 1

Marwick

Answer 1

youth culture was a product of social and economic circumstances particular to the 1950s

Question 2

historical factor affecting youth cultures - devastation of WW2

Answer 2

the blitz - 1940
rationing of food and clothes until 1954

Question 3

historical factors affecting youth cultures - new labour government

Answer 3

clement Attlee defeated Churchill - 1945
development of welfare state and creation of the NHS - 1945

Question 4

historical factors affecting youth cultures - nationality act

Answer 4

nationality act - 1948
gave all citizens in common wealth countries right to have a British passport in the uk
labour shortage after WW2 - many people from commonwealth migrated to Britain to live and work