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Explain The Differing Reactions Of People In Britain To The Policy Of Evacuating Children During The Second World War.
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Explain The Differing Reactions Of People In Britain To The Policy Of Evacuating Children During The Second World War. Evacuation was in the Second World War when the government decided to send children, pregnant women and blind people to countries or cities that were not going to get bombed. People feared the bombing happening because of the power of Germany. Most people remember world war one. The government knew that the German bombers were advanced due to their destruction of Guernica in Spain during the Spanish Civil a few years earlier. One and a half million children were evacuated within the first two days because they thought the Germans would start bombing immediately. Most of the evacuees were children from poorer families, in larger cities their lives changed completely. The reason the British government thought evacuation was needed is because they needed to protect our future. In order for this to...
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