Answer this question in a paragraph. Note down how confident you feel with this topic (1 being very uncertain, 10 being very confident)•Can you add anything from this Andrew Marr clip?•http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lurGssKn7PA

•Ext. Is there anything you would criticise as not being historically accurate in this clip?

Why did Labour win the 1945 election?

How successful were Labour’s domestic policies from 1945 to 1951?

Starter – what do you think? What did they introduce and were they

successful?Standard (C or below) – to

learn evidence for and against and reach an overall

judgement.

Super (B+) – to assess whether labour overcame challenges

effectively to make its domestic policies successful

Domestic Policy Challenges Strengths How successful was it scale of 1 to 5?

NHS

Use your card sort to fill in this table.

How successful was Labour’s domestic policy from 1945-1951?

How successful was Labour’s domestic policy from 1945-1951? Did it cure Beveridge’s 5 giants from 1942?

Label your source with what the giant is, what Labour did to tackle it, any other information, and whether it was cured.

How successful was Labour’s domestic policy from 1945-1951?

Keynesianism

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was a British economist. He believed that there had to be an economic middle way between free capitalism, where people could make as much money as they liked

at the expense of others, and state socialism, where the state controlled all industry and looked after the people.

His new idea was KENYNESIANISM. It was a middle way. He believed that depressions could be avoided if demand remained, when

demand for goods fell this is when depression sets in. He argued it was the government’s role to keep demand high. To do this he

believed that the government should raise money from its taxes and state industries, which is should then invest into the economy. If

they had to go into debt to do this for the short term this was fine as in the long run as greater growth would happen and it could tax

workers and companies to pay back any money they had borrowed. This would allow companies to have full order books and to

maintain full employment. This in turn would allow workers to stimulate the demand for goods and services. The government

followed Keynesianism until the 1970s.

1. Why did Labour follow Keynesianism from 1945-

1951?2. Write a short definition or

draw a diagram to show what Keynesianism is.

Ext. What consequences did following Keynesianism

have for the 1945-51 Labour government and for the following Conservative

government?

• What is this cartoon suggesting about the NHS?

How successful was Labour’s domestic policy from 1945-1951?

(From a cartoon in Punch magazine, 21 January 1948. The letters ‘A. B.’ [Aneurin Bevan] appear on the hat and ‘M. D.’ [Medical Doctor] on the briefcases. The bowl has ‘National Health Service’ written round its rim.)

Things I should have mentioned about why Labour won the 1945

election...Soldiers

Archbishop of Canterbury

How successful was Labour’s domestic policy from 1945-1951?

Make a brief list of successes of Labour’s domestic policy and the flaws of Labour’s domestic policy.

Successes Failures Standard (C or below) – to learn evidence for and against

and reach an overall judgement.

Super (B+) – to assess whether labour overcame challenges

effectively to make its domestic policies successful

How successful was Labour’s domestic policy from 1945-1951?

Quick quiz... Read who is who on your handout.

• Hide it! Who’s who?Churchill:

Attlee:Beveridge:

Bevan:Bevin:

Morrison:Wilkinson:

Butler:

Terminology:Keynesianism

Socialism

How successful were Labour’s domestic policies from 1945 to 1951?

Standard (C or below) – to learn evidence for and against

and reach an overall judgement.

Super (B+) – to assess whether labour overcame challenges

effectively to make its domestic policies successful

What did Attlee mean by ‘building a green and pleasant land’? Was he successful?

How successful was Labour’s domestic policy from 1945-1951?

HomeworkAnswer in writing online. Feel free to comment and challenge each

other – respectfully and politely please http://historywcsch.wordpress.com/

Year 12 Discussion

Read pp. 32-34 (Creating the new Britain: Paying for it main text) and pp. 39-42 (Cripps and Austerity main text) and makes notes on...

1. What was the Age of Austerity? 2. Evidence that there was an Age of Austerity3. Evidence that the Age of Austerity is a myth

This is in preparation for next lesson. We have a lot of content to cover and not long to do it in, therefore you need to do this reading to cover material we are analysing next week.