The 1940sBy Amy Underwood

WW2

Blitz – a sudden military attack

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The Woolton Pie• Rationing of the countries food meant that people needed to make food

that would save and could be turned into new things. For instance if a family made a stew one night they could use the left overs with a mixture of vegetables to make the Woolton pie

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Bevin Boys

• Were conscripted young British men who worked in the coal mines from 1943 - 1948

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Denazification

• The removal of Nazis from leading social positions

Film and TV

• Films were used to increase the moral of the average people• Were mostly about love, conquering evil or the war itself

Music

Medicine

• Penicillin 1945

• Plastic surgery 1942

• Anaesthesia 1942

Inventions

• Colour TV – meant war propaganda was on TV but only the wealthy had this luxury

• Computer

• Microwave oven – women worked during war so made it easier for them to do household chores

• Atomic bomb