Describe the effects of the Blitz on everyday life in Britain.

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2. Describe the effects of the Blitz on everyday life in Britain.

There are many horrible things that happened to Britain during the Blitz, different things happened every day, each day a different factory was bombed or a different housing estate was destroyed, thousands of people lost their lives, their jobs and all that belongs to them in the Blitz, there are many different reasons. Cities were being bombed every night, people were being killed and losing people close to them. Children were forced to evacuate out of major cities due to the bombings, they had to leave their parents in the city and move to a strange house in the country to live with people they had never met in their lives before, and this must have been a very scary, frightening experience for them, children as young as three could be evacuated. 16'000 children from Britain were evacuated to North America, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. As the children were leaving on trains to head for their new homes, it must have been an awful prospect knowing that your Mother or Father could die any night, and were most likely to be bombed, most of the children's possessions had to be left behind, maybe to be destroyed by the bombs being dropped every night on major cities. The children had to leave their whole life behind them, all because of the Blitz.
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The people that were left in major cities, like London and Coventry had to carry around gas masks with them at all times, at the beginning of the Blitz these were issued. You could be at risk of dying if you simply just forgot your gas mask if the Germans dropped a bomb on your area unexpectedly, cases were this serious in the period of 1940-41 in Britain, it's as simple as forgetting to pick up your wallet or your phone today for going out just to the shops maybe.

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