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British Public Attitudes Towards the Second World War


British Institute of Public Opinion Polls, 1939 Documentation SN 2038

prevails in Great Britain that no matter in what conflict. Germany should ... Should the Government control prices and wages in war-time. Percentage ...

The Great Debate | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

Public opinion polling was still in its infancy as World War II approached, but surveys suggested the force of events in Europe in 1940 had a powerful ...

Lend-Lease and Military Aid to the Allies in the Early Years of World

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Between Acceptance and Refusal - Soldiers' Attitudes Towards War

Soldiers' attitudes towards the Great War are a controversial issue, as they prove difficult to assess and raise complex methodological ...

UK Public Opinion toward Immigration: Overall Attitudes and Level ...

Opposition to the arrival of immigrants in the UK is not new. Rising concern about 'New Commonwealth' immigration prompted the British Election ...

Public Attitudes to UK Military Interventionism

the local population (for Afghanistan)43. A second confounding variable for the public's disapproval of the Iraq War is the death of. UK ...

World War Two Provides the Indo/British Breaking Point

India's peasant masses, which had been excluded from the nationalist debate, were enlisted as active participants. Indians of all social classes ...

The YouGov Big Survey on NATO and War

UK's involvement in previous wars - only in the case of the Second World War do the majority of Britons (82%) think the country was right to get ...

UK Government and Public Attitudes to Sport in the Second World War

The Second World War, according to a British Government report, applied a 'knockout blow' to sport. This, the same Home Intelligence ...

Willingly to War. Public Response to the Outbreak of War

Another extremely influential idea in German public opinion was the fear of encirclement resulting from the coalition between France, Great ...

Changing Attitudes towards War: The Impact of the First World War

... public outcry in. Britain against Germany as the war broke out in August 1914. As David Lloyd. George recalls, the war 'leapt into popularity' with 'the ...

The British Citizenry in the Second World War - U.OSU

Britain, from 1939 to 1945, experienced a people's war. The conflict impacted everyone, from those working in the Cabinet War Rooms and Bletchley Park.

The Formation of British Attitudes towards the Common Market

... public demand (Younger, 1964, p. 29). In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, the British economy – and in particular that of ...

Our People's War: Home Intelligence Reports and the Monitoring of ...

During the Second World War, Home Intelligence, a unit of the Ministry of Information, closely monitored British public attitudes on the home ...

British Attitudes to Immigration in the 21st Century

contrast, the United Kingdom experienced large immigration flows only after World War II; change ... community tensions, threats to the British way of life, and a ...

France in 1940 in British Eyes - OpenEdition Journals

By the end of the war the British had developed a sense of superiority over continental Europeans. But they also felt guilty about Britain's failed pre-war ...

What were the British publics' attitude to their communist allies ...

Overall, working class people were enthusiastic about helping Russia. They were of course aware that any German soldier killed on the eastern front would not ...

Great Britain and WWI | UW-Madison Libraries Exhibits

As late as 31 July 1914, British popular opinion, the British cabinet, and Parliament were divided on the prospect of entering the war, though ultimately ...

Why fewer people are proud of Britain's history - The Telegraph

... attitudes and the fact that there are fewer people alive today who lived through or fought in the Second World War. “It definitely has an ...

15. British Public opinion and the Korean War: A preliminary survey

This approval was highest among Conservative and liberal supporters, but even labour supporters turned in 62% in favour, with 18% against and 17% abstaining or ...