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20. What if?
20/20What would Britain have been like if Winston Churchill had won the 1945 general election?
19. Post-postwar
19/20When did the postwar period end?
18. Churchill: Lion in Winter
18/20What happened to Winston Churchill in the years after the 1945 general election?
17. A New Jerusalem?
17/20How much of Britain’s past were Labour willing to jettison in 1945?
16. The Result
16/20The immediate result of the general election in 1945 was silence: a three-week hiatus.
15. Debt to America
15/20In 1945, Britain was the most indebted country in the world.
14. United Nations
14/20Both main parties supported the United Nations, but they disagreed about what that meant.
13. From Yalta to Potsdam
13/20Between the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, everything changed.
12. Art, War and Propaganda
12/20With the creation of the Arts Council in 1945, on-going state patronage of the arts began.
11. Homes for Heroes
11/20The 1945 election was fought and decided over two main issues: demobilisation and housing.
