HIS 1111 Study Guide - Total War, Powdered Milk, Marshall Plan
Document Summary
After ww2 there was a prevailing mood for reforming the economy and government. Believed that capitalism had failed (great depression) Shadow of the great depression: crisis of laissez-faire capitalism, experience with state intervention, lack of housing no housing construction for two generations, very crowded, pent-up demand for consumer goods. Rationing was common (powdered milk: dissatisfaction with democracy no confidence in the system with all the troubles, open to changing the system. Sacrifices of ordinary people lots of sacrifice. Loosening of social roles and traditional mores women working, men in england, everything changed. Prewar experiments with welfare : fdr"s new deal (1933) employ everyone, very much liked by the people, the beveridge report (1942) shows the revolutionary spirit present in britain. Beveridge examined and questioned why different people were receiving different societal benefits. Preached for a unified, universal system of support. Western european welfare state, in its various manifestations, represented a middle path between two extremes.
