United_Kingdom_History

United Kingdom History History of United Kingdom from 1945 to Present After World War II the United Kingdom found itself in a very interesting situation. The financing of the war striped Great Britain of many of its foreign financial resources. The economy was in very bad shape and had no direction. There was nothing to export with the railroads in disarray. Great Britain was basically bankrupt. So they orchestrated a loan with the United States amounting to $3,750,000,000. Later in 1947 Great Britain saw countries withdraw from its empire as India led by the famous Gandhi and Pakistan gained independence. The Labour party also found itself in charge from 1945-1951. The party saved Great Britain. Rationings were set in place. Imports were cut to bare minimum. They also stopped support of Turkey and Greece and had the United States replace itself. The Marshall Plan also helped since it gave aid to all European countries. The 1950’s were much better to Great Britain than the 1940‘s. The conservative government ruled from 1951-1964. Winston Churchill was once Prime Minister again. They saw as a new Monarch was great, britain, prime, new, minister, saw, government, united, wilson, war, very, unions, people, party, free, elected, culture, brought, year, world, until, trade, through, things, thatcher, states, problems, northern, led, itself, ireland, however, helped, end