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In the 1930's and 1940's Britain was in very bad shape.
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In the 1930's and 1940's Britain was in very bad shape, both the post war Labour government and the National government of the 1930's faced similar problems both dealing with social and economic crisis. But the situations were different. The National government during an economic crisis triggered off by the 1929 Wall Street Crash, and the worldwide economic depression that followed; the 1945 government after a terrible war, in which more civilians than ever before had been killed, and the economy of many countries in Europe had been devastated. There had been a major downturn in the British economy since the end of the first word war. The government had not fulfilled promises of a better society with employment security and higher standards of living. There was too much reliance on the traditional heavy industries of cotton, coal mining, and ship building, which were struggling to compete in world...
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