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The Changing Standards of Living During the 1950's After the war in 1945 people's attention was focussed onto rebuilding Britain to improve problems that already existed and had worsened during this period. These were things like unemployment and poor housing. Britain trying to rebuild itself For Britain to begin to rebuild itself, large imports of food, iron ore, wool and cotton had to be brought in to help people survive. To pay for all the things needed, the amount of exportations taking place from Britain had to increase dramatically. The newly elected Labour Government had a big task on their hands of making sure that people didn't starve. So what they did was borrow millions of pounds to buy food and materials needed and the debts created were paid of by the amount of exports. Because of this all the best things in Britain were exported. This meant that there was still a...

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