<P> Before the onset of the Second World War, the United Kingdom drew on its First World War experience to prepare legislation that would allow immediate mobilization of the economy for war, should future hostilities break out . </P> <P> Rationing of most goods and services was introduced, not only for consumers but also for manufacturers . This meant that factories manufacturing products that were irrelevant to the war effort had more appropriate tasks imposed . All artificial light was subject to legal blackouts . </P> <P> Winston Churchill on the radio, June 18; and House of Commons 20 August 1940: </P> <P> Not only were men conscripted into the armed forces from the beginning of the war (something which had not happened until the middle of World War I), but women were also conscripted as Land Girls to aid farmers and the Bevin Boys were conscripted to work down the coal mines . </P>

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