WWII: What Changed?
Kendall Douglas
2025-04-29 05:34:13
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New families were created as women married servicemen of other nations and moved overseas; children were born in fatherless homes as a result of demobilised troops leaving the UK to return to the US or Canada or due to a death as a result of the war; and the divorce rate spiked as many families struggled to re-adjust to a world at peace. Many were looking for new nations. In the UK and other Commonwealth nations, post-war elections paved the way for incoming governments that radically altered social policies. In Britain the most famous of reforms was the creation of the National Health Service which began its work on 5 July 1948. In 1947 the British Government instituted the Polish Resettlement Program which gave rights of employment, benefits and residence to Polish ex-servicemen. In Europe thousands of Jewish refugees were searching for a new home.
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