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Coursework "Why did the government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities in the early years of WW2?" This coursework is investigating the evacuation of Children at the beginning of WW2. Evacuation was initiated in September 1939, when 1,474,000 people were moved from the cities to the countryside, however in 1940 many evacuees returned home to their cities under the belief that it was a "phoney war" only to be evacuated again during the Blitz of 1940. These evacuees consisted of vulnerable people: children, disabled people, pregnant women and skilled workers. It became clear that civilians were now to become targets in this war, because of new forms of aerial combat which were widely understood by Britain as being crucial to the outcome of the war. German bomber planes were well equipped and were easily capable of bombing Britain and its industrial areas, ports and major cities. It was obvious...

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