Chapter 6: The National Health Service and the Cold War

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  1. 5. This individual was tasked by the government to investigate the living conditions of the masses and how they could be made better in 1942.
  2. 7. These contributions and taxes would be used to pay for the welfare state.
  3. 8. A government health care system in Britain that provides free healthcare.
  4. 9. A term used to describe poor education.
  5. 10. This superpower's economy was roughly half the size of the global economy in 1945.
  6. 12. An economic system in which political and economic power are in the hands of a small number of individuals.
  7. 14. Another term for unemployment pay.
  8. 16. These were attempts to help the poor and vulnerable earlier in the twentieth century. Associated with the Liberal Party.
  9. 17. This superpower was destroyed by WWII and was much weaker than the other rival superpower.
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  1. 1. A US aid plan to help Europe recover after the Second World War.
  2. 2. A term used to describe very poor living conditions.
  3. 3. An economic system in which political and economic power are wielded by the working class.
  4. 4. Beveridge believed people should be free of these social ills.
  5. 5. Another name for a system in which the government helps those in need.
  6. 6. The name of a system in which the government aims to help those in need.
  7. 11. American and British aid to West Berlin during the Berlin Blockade.
  8. 13. Countries to the west of this imaginary line in Europe were capitalist while those to the east were communist.
  9. 15. Countries that are far more powerful than most others.