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. In 1939 just before the outbreak of the Second World War the British government decided to evacuate school children, expectant women, and teachers, mothers with small children, disabled, the elderly and the sick from major towns and cities to the designated reception areas. This policy of evacuation had a big impact on people, reaction and change in morale on all the above people mentioned and other people not being evacuated such as fathers, the host families and the government. In this essay I will be looking at the different reactions of all the evacuees and even people who were not being evacuated such as the men. In this essay I will also be discussing how the different reactions of working and middle class evacuees differed and why they differed. One of...


