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Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain’s major cities in the early years of the Second World War?
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Hannah Mahdavi 11B Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities in the early years of the Second World War? September 1939-April 1940 was known as the 'phoney war'. Although war had been declared, no precautions seemed necessary yet, no bombings had taken place so evacuation and the wearing of gas masks seemed pointless to many people however the government still carried it out due to the threat that Germany would drop bombs at any time. The evacuation of Britain's cities at the start of World War Two was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's history. Approximately 3,000,000 people, most being school children, were labelled like pieces of luggage and transported from towns and cities to places of safety in the countryside. When war finally did come the deaths and casualties would be estimated at 4,000,000 in London alone, because of...
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