Bitesize: The NHS and modern public health
c1900-present · Resource
Edexcel revision guide on the road to the NHS (National Insurance 1911, the Beveridge Report), the founding of the NHS in 1948, and modern lifestyle campaigns such as anti-smoking.
On these timelines: BBC Bitesize (revision guides), Resources: Combined
Around 1950
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- The Beatles (1960)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- United Nations founded (1945)
- People's Republic of China founded (1949)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)