| Name |
Description |
#books |
| British Commonwealth Air Training Plan |
A joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, during WW2 responsible for training nearly half the pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, air gunners, wireless operators and flight engineers who served with those air forces. | 2 |
| Concentration camp |
A type of internment camp used officially in time of war for detaining belligerent armed forces, but often used by despots in practice for imprisoning many innocents types of people. | 1 |
| Conditions of Employment and National Arbitration Order S.R. & O. 1940/1305 (July 18) |
This order was created to prevent work being unduly interrupted by trade disputes. it created the National Arbitration Tribunal to help settle difficult trade disputes. | 1 |
| Control of Employment (Notice of Termination of Employment) Order S.R. & O. 1943/1173 (August 10) |
This order was created to ensure that essential workers were never left to be unemployed. It ensured that employers and local employment exchanges worked closely together for employees covered by the various Essential Work Orders. | 1 |
| Defence Regulation 58A |
Used for the control of employment for total war - '58A-1: The Minister of labour and National Service may direct any person in the UK to perform such services in the UK as may be specified by the direction, being services which that person is, in the opinion of the Minister, capable of performing.' | 1 |
| Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 |
A UK Act of parliament passed on 24th August 1939 to enact powers required to allow effective control for the expected war. | 0 |
| Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1940 |
A UK Act of parliament passed on 22nd May 1940. It adopted the regulations provided by the original Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 of 24th August 1939 with a provision to extending them. The Order S.R. & O. 1940/781 (May 22) included the addition of regulation 58A, the hinge-pin of all further man-power control. | 1 |
| Empire Air Training Scheme |
A policy designed to train Royal Australian Air Force pilots for transfer into the Royal Air Force during WW2. It was envisioned after the British Empire was unable to supply enough pilots and aircraft for the Royal Air force. | 1 |
| Essential Work Orders |
These were a series of control orders to totally manage the workforce of industries for the maximum benefit of the country under wartime conditions. These were made under the Regulation 58A directives. | 1 |
| Hague Convention |
TBD. | 1 |
| Lease-Lend Act |
A United States Act which was created to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and material between 1941 and August 1945. The aid went to the United Kingdom, China, and later the Soviet Union, Free France, and other Allied nations. It was enacted on March 11, 1941. | 1 |
| Military Training Act, 1939 |
A UK Act of Parliament passed on 26 May 1939, in the period just prior to WW2. It applied to males aged 20 and 21 years old who were to be called up for six months military training, and then transferred to the Reserve. It was superseded in September 1939 by the National Service (Armed Forces) Act 1939. | 1 |
| National Service (No. 2) Act, Dec 1941 |
A UK Act of Parliament on December 1941 to augment the function of the original act of 1939. It widened the scope of conscription by making all unmarried women and all childless widows between the ages of 20 and 30 liable to call-up. Men were now required to do some form of National Service up to the age of 60. | 1 |
| National Service Act, 1939 |
A UK Act of Parliament enacted the day the UK declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 at the start of WW2. It superseded the Military Training Act 1939 and enforced full conscription on all males between 18 and 41 who were residents in the UK. | 2 |
| Registration for Employment Order S.R. & O. 1941/368 (March 15) |
This order enabled the government to make it mandatory that all workers be registered and to allow for the legal collection of all the personal data required and to allow for addition data in the future. | 1 |
| Schedule of Reserved Occupations |
A list of occupations considered important enough to a country that those serving in such occupations are exempt from military service. It was begun in 1938 and continually updated during WW2. | 1 |
| Soviet Union |
A socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. The country was a one-party federation, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital. It was officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | 0 |
| Swastika |
A geometrical figure and ancient icon in the cultures of Eurasia used as a symbol of divinity and spirituality. In the 20th century it became a feature of Nazi symbolism and is now strongly associated with Nazism. | 2 |
| The Building and Civil Engineering (Restriction on Transfer Order) S.R. & O. 1941/2068 (December 18) |
This order was designed to place a control on which workers could be transferred between employments, mainly to prevent Essential Workers from leaving Essential Jobs. | 1 |
| The Employment of Women (Control of Engagement) Order S.R. & O. 1943/142 (February22) |
This order replaced the original 1942/100 and 1942/797 which were designed to control the employment of women for national service. | 1 |
| The Undertakings (Restriction on Engagement) Order S.R. & O. 1940/877 (June 5) |
This order mandated that employers must notify local employment exchanges when seeking to fill a position and must only engage workers sent from the local office and should not engage those workers mandated to be agricultural accept for that role. | 1 |
