Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain(TM)s major cities in the early years of the Second World War?

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12th January 2009

Rojina dorodvand,

Why did the British Government decide to evacuate children from Britain’s major cities in the early years of the Second World War?

         Evacuation was the mass departure of people from danger zones e.g. London, Sheffield, Yorkshire, Kent and many more. The evacuee's, the people being removed were children, expectant mothers and old and ill people, the people who would not be able to fend for themselves. The British Government would want these people evacuated as soon as possible to reduce the number of casualties likely to occur, keeping the moral and work standard of the people involved in the war effort high. The Government realized after WW1 that women were an invaluable source in wartime; they also knew that they had to save the children so they decided to evacuate both of them. They also evacuated them because of a couple of different reasons like ‘’children are the future of the nation’’ and to keep adults focused on the war effort was an important reason for evacuating the children.

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           The British Government evacuated children during World War Two because it would reduce the civilian death rate which would mean morale would stay high. For example, in autumn 1940, London got bombed for seventy five days out of seventy six and in 1936 there was a Spanish civil war and the major cities were the targets, so this encouraged the Government to keep the children out of the major cities so the same thing would not happen to the British. This was an important reason because Britain’s main industrial cities were Manchester, London, Liverpool ...

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