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The Turning of the Tide and the Beveridge Report
In 1943 General Dwight D Eisenhower was appointed to plan the Normandy invasion. It would not happen for another 18 months but the general feeling was one of optimism.
At home Sir William Beveridge presented his cradle-to-the-grave report on the future of social security. He suggested a nationally supplied health service with a private medical service option. Beveridge's first interest, however, was unemployment, although his views were not followed by the Government.
Admiral Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound (1877-1943)- Made captain in 1914
- Fought in the Battle of Jutland in 1916
- Worked in the admiralty
- Became Admiral of the Fleet in 1939 and then First Sea Lord
In 1943 John Maynard Keynes produced his plan for a world bank and global monetary fund that would bail out countries whose economies could not recover by themselves.
Films Of The War Years
- Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator
- Vivien Leigh in Gone With The Wind
- Orson Welles in Citizen Kane
- Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon
- Walt Disney's cartoon Dumbo
- Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca
- Noel Coward in In Which We Serve
- Laurence Olivier in Henry V
 
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| 1938 | The Munich Agreement is signed
Germany annexes Austria
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| 1939 | World War II begins
Conscription is introduced
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| 1940 | Churchill becomes Prime Minister
Rationing is introduced
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| 1941 | The Atlantic Charter is formed
Anglo-Soviet Treaty is signed
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| 1942 | The Beveridge Report is published
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| 1944 | Butler's Education Act
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| 1945 | Attlee becomes Prime Minister
World War II ends
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| 1946 | National Insurance Act is passed
National Health Act is passed
The United Nations is founded
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| 1946 | India becomes independent
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| 1948 | Gandhi is assassinated
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| War Diary 1943 | | • | January 10 Guadalcanal |
| • | January 31 German surrender at Stalingrad [CHECK DATE] |
| • | January 31 RAF daylight bombing on Berlin |
| • | May 17 Dambusters raid on Mohne and Eder dams |
| • | July 10 Allies land in Sicily |
| • | July 24 Eight day bombing of Hamburg begins |
| • | July25 Mussolini falls |
| • | September 3 Allies invade Italy |
| • | September 8 Italy agrees armistice |
| • | September 10 Germans hold Rome |
| • | September 17 Germans retreat from Salerno |
| • | October 13 Italy declares war on Germany |
| • | November 6 Soviet armies retake Kiev |
| • | November 28 Teheran Conference |
| • | December 24 Eisenhower appointed Supreme Allied Commander |
| • | December 26 Scharnhorst sunk |
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