page_title: United Kingdom home front during World War II
section_title: Scotland
hierarchical_section_title: United Kingdom home front during World War II / Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland / Scotland
caption_attribution_description: English: The King Pays 4-day Visit To the Home Fleet. 21 March 1943, Scapa Flow, Wearing the Uniform of An Admiral of the Fleet, the King Paid a 4-day Visit To the Home Fleet. His Majesty The King inspecting divisions on board the Flagship HMS KING GEORGE V.
context_page_description: The United Kingdom home front during World War II covers the political, social and economic history during 1939–1945.
  The war was very expensive. It was paid for by high taxes, by selling off assets, and by accepting large amounts of Lend Lease from the U.S. and Canada. The US gave $30 billion in munitions; Canada also gave aid.
  Britain's total mobilisation during this period proved to be successful in winning the war, by maintaining strong support from public opinion. The war was a "people's war" that enlarged democratic aspirations and produced promises of better Britain after the war. The media called it a "people's war"—a term that caught on and signified the popular demand for planning and an expanded welfare state. Indeed by 1945 the Post-war consensus emerged that did deliver a welfare state.
  The Royal family played major symbolic roles in the war. They refused to leave London during the Blitz and were indefatigable in visiting troops, munition factories, dockyards, and hospitals all over the country. All social classes appreciated how the royals shared the hopes, fears and hardships of the people.
  The British relied successfully on voluntarism.
context_section_description: The outbreak of the world war in 1939 temporarily arrested the ongoing decline in heavy industry, with the city's shipyards and heavy industries working. To slow arms production down, the Luftwaffe bombed the Clydeside. The worst was the Clydebank Blitz in March 1941 that left tens of thousands of Glaswegians homeless and destruction of housing caused by the war would leave a lasting legacy for the city decades later.
caption: King George VI visiting the Home Fleet based at Scapa Flow, Scotland, March 1943
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