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Why did the British Government decide to evacuate
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Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities in the early stages of the Second World War? All over Britain children where getting evacuated all over the country, parent would take them from there homes and send them away to foster homes. The Government knew how many men they had lost in the First World War and they knew that they where going to lose a lot in this war too so they wanted to minimize it. But more importantly they evacuated the children because they expected the Germans to bomb the cities, there experience of WW1. The government uses propaganda saying that mothers must send their children to safety, yet they didn't mention that they had a plan of sending women to work. There started the WVS the Women Voluntary Service these women helped other people. All over Britain they had been preparing for war so a...
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