Britain Spec Point 6

Question 1

Background

Answer 1

Between 1906 and 1914 the Liberal Government introduced social reforms such as the Old Age Pension Act and Free School Meals. However the Liberal reforms did not help everyone and after the sacrifices made by the British people in the Second World War there was a willingness to make Britain a better place for everyone.

Question 2

Ignorance

Answer 2

Education

Question 3

Ignorance k1

Answer 3

1944-You had to stay in school until the age of 15.

Question 4

Ignorance k2

Answer 4

1944-An exam for pupils at the age of 11 to decide if they were good enough to go to Senior Secondary School or Technical Secondary School.

Question 5

Ignorance ANP

Answer 5

Exam at 11 tough for working class pupils who often went to Technical Senior School because they found it difficult to prepare for these exams because of poverty and could also just say 11 is too young to have such an important exam

Question 6

Ignorance Eval

Answer 6

Working Class Movement Library unlike Rich kids working class could not afford “extra private coaching” to help them prepare for the exam at 11 years old.

Question 7

WANT

Answer 7

Poverty

Question 8

Want k1

Answer 8

1945 mothers would receive financial support if they had TWO or more children.

Question 9

Want k2

Answer 9

1946 Pension age was lowered to 60 for women and 65 for men through the National Insurance Scheme.

Question 10

Want ANP

Answer 10

Mothers with one child did not receive any financial support and often struggled to give their child everything it needs.

Question 11

Want Eval

Answer 11

People who just joined the National Insurance Scheme had to wait 10 years even if old enough to get a pension.

Question 12

Squalor

Answer 12

Housing

Question 13

Squalor k1

Answer 13

1945-Labour aimed to build 200,000 new houses a year.

Question 14

Squalor k2

Answer 14

1946-Labour planned to build 14 new towns.

Question 15

Squalor ANP

Answer 15

Houses and Towns took a long time to build because raw materials were expensive and in short supply which was a huge problem for a country which took an economic hit in the Second World War which meant there were similar levels of homelessness to the early 1930s (after the Great Depression)

Question 16

Squalor Eval

Answer 16

In 1946 only about 50,000 houses were built.

Question 17

Disease

Answer 17

Health

Question 18

Disease k

Answer 18

1948-NHS created

Question 19

Disease ANP

Answer 19

NHS cost 100ms of pounds which was a huge problem for Britain who were recovering from the economic hit of the Second World War which forced the government to make patients pay for optical and dental care not covered in the NHS.

Question 20

Disease Eval

Answer 20

90% of the British Medical Association wanted to boycott the scheme as they thought they were being treated like civil servants (less motivated)

Question 21

4 Eval s

Answer 21

But no Eval pluses