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The 1940sBy Amy Underwood
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WW2
Blitz – a sudden military attack
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WW2
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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WW2
Bevin Boys
• Were conscripted young British men who worked in the coal mines from 1943 - 1948
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WW2
Denazification
• The removal of Nazis from leading social positions
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Film and TV
• Films were used to increase the moral of the average people• Were mostly about love, conquering evil or the war itself
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Music
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Medicine
• Penicillin 1945
• Plastic surgery 1942
• Anaesthesia 1942
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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