"Evacuation was a great success!" Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation? Use sources and your own knowledge to explain your answer.
"Evacuation was a great success!" Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation? Use sources and your own knowledge to explain your answer. Evacuation was introduced because Britain was at war with Germany and they expected the Germans to bomb Britain. There were three main evacuation periods. The first started on September 1^st 1939 and was called `The Phoney War'; this first wave of evacuation took place because Britain expected air raids. The second period ranged from May to December 1940. This second wave was taken due to heavy bombing warnings, the Blitz started shortly after evacuation started. The third period of evacuation was from July to September 1944, and this was because the Germans had developed flying bombs and `v2' rockets, which were both devastating weapons. People who were evacuated were school children, mothers and young children, blind and disabled people and teachers. The government tried to encourage evacuation by the use of propaganda. Source B is a photograph from the start of evacuation. It shows evacuee's walking to a train station. They are all smiling and look happy. We cannot fully trust this source because it may be a staged photo used by the government for propaganda. Source D is another photograph, showing that evacuees were clean and happy people, but we cannot trust this source because it says it was issued by
"Evacuation was a great success" Do I agree or disagree with this interpretation? Explain your answer.
"Evacuation was a great success" Do I agree or disagree with this interpretation? Explain your answer. As the last days of peace lasted away in 1939, more than 3.5 million children were taken from their homes as part of a Government plan to evacuate largest mass movement of people ever seen in Britain. The evacuations were planned against a series of hugely exaggerated estimates of the potential effects of the German bombs. According to official, pre-war calculations, more than 100,000 tons of German bombs would be dropped on Britain in the first two weeks of the war alone. In fact, less that 65,000 tons were dropped throughout the entire war. The evacuation of cities at the start of World War II was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people, in the first four days of September 1939 alone; nearly 3,000,000 people were transported from towns and cities in danger from enemy bombers to places of safety in the countryside. The majority were schoolchildren who had been labelled like pieces of luggage, separated from their parents and accompanied instead by a small army of teachers. Talking to evacuees now about the events of those days in 1939 recall painful memories that have been deeply hidden for 60 years, exposing the trauma of separation and isolation and of fear and anger. But in saying that these same people all agree that evacuation was probably the only
"Evacuation was a great success" Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation? Explain your answer using the sources and knowledge from your studies
History Coursework - Assignment B Question b.i - Target: Evaluation of and Interpretation "Evacuation was a great success" Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation? Explain your answer using the sources and knowledge from your studies A statement like this is very hard to completely agree or disagree with. Evaluation was such a broad topic, and the title is asking us to give a definitive view on the whole thing. It is hard to say exactly what a success is, do you think it was a success if the children remained alive, or was it a failure if they were miserable at the same time. Sources A to F present varying viewpoints on the agreement and disagreement of the statement. Source A shows us a group of evacuees walking to the station to be evacuated in September of 1939; this is the first problem with the source. The war had only just begun in 1939, and it is impossible to provide an accurate view on something that has not even happened yet. Evacuation changed as the war went on, with its faults becoming clearer towards the end. This source is a photograph, a single moment captured of children who do not really know what they are doing but are happy because they have been told it will be fun. It is also worth considering that as a photograph, it could easily have been done by the government as propaganda, and in reality the children could just be posing. As stated in
"Evacuation was a great success" Do you agree with this interpretation?
"Evacuation was a great success" Do you agree with this interpretation? Explain your answer using the sources and knowledge from your studies. The evacuation had many advantages as well as many disadvantages regarding its success. From the pictures and images provided within sources A to I, the evacuation could be seen through a number of opinions, some supporting this interpretation and others neglecting it. Each source builds to the strengths or weaknesses to the evacuation. Source A is an interpretation of the relationships between evacuees and host families during the evacuation. The source is very negative about the success of the evacuation and specifies mainly the problems caused by the evacuated children. It talks about the children being deprived and of them being badly behaved and disgusting. The source has been extracted form a book written for British schools by David Taylor in 1988. Knowing that this source came from a textbook, which should have been researched by the author, you would think that the detail specified within it is reliable and honest. However it was written for the purpose of a children's schoolbook many years after the evacuation. Therefore there is a possibility that the author may have been influenced by his sources when writing the book, or more likely to have simplified it making it suitable for the children's use. From my own knowledge,
"Evacuation was a success" Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation? Explain your answer using the sources and knowledge from your studies.
Helen Blyth. Coursework B Evacuation "Evacuation was a success" Do you agree or disagree with this interpretation?" Explain your answer using the sources and knowledge from your studies. The sources all show different attitudes tot the evacuation of children, some show that evacuation was a great success, however some show that it wasn't such a success. They all show this in different ways-pictures, interviews with the parents and teachers, advertisements and novels so some evidence is more reliable then others. Source A is a very positive attitude or impression to evacuation as it shows evacuees walking to the station in London in September 1939. The children don't look at all bothered, they seem to be smiling and waving to the person who is taking the photograph. Although this is a photograph so it will be real, it isn't that reliable in showing the attitudes or impression towards evacuation because the rest of Great Britain may have different views on the whole evacuation idea, probably a lot of children and the parent would be feeling quite distraught as it would be quite an emotional experience so it definitely isn't at all reliable at showing what evacuation was like and the publics attitude. It could be a source of propaganda; the government were probably trying to make out that evacuation was going well and that it would be a success. In a way this source does
feel there are both points for and against Haig being the "butcher of the Somme" Haig's aims were to reduce German morale and raise British morale, to break out of the trenches
History coursework: F "Haig is an uncaring General who sacrificed the lives of his soldiers for no good reason" this is a statement which is believed by many people. I feel that after studying all the sources at hand that this statement is both true and false. To a certain extent I believe that there are some things that Haig could have done better. Others would say he was completely useless and didn't do anything right in the whole time he was in charge, but some people would say he was great and probably the best architect of the allied victory. When looking at source A, we can see that Haig knew what was going to happen and he tried to get the nation to accept what was going to happen and that they must expect to see large numbers of casualties. Looking at source B, we can see Haig's account of what is going on during the battle. These are two extracts written by Haig; one before the attack and one is a report on the days attack. Here we are told what Haig thought of the situation, "very successful attack this morning." He says this in good confidence followed by, "all went like clockwork." We know for a fact that the first day of battle was the most amount of casualties ever seen by Britain at one time. This battle lost the lives of 620,000 British and French men; many are left to wonder how Haig could say it all went like clockwork. The fact of the matter is that
Source A tells us that in the Blitz, people 'didn't have to be in uniform to be heroes'
. Source A tells us that in the Blitz, people 'didn't have to be in uniform to be heroes'; ordinary civilians were involved with the war effort, implying that in previous wars, they had played no direct role, and people did have to be in uniform to be heroes. They showed that soldiers were not the only contributors to victory, but also ordinary people showed that they could play just as important a part for their nation, by sacrifice. It illustrates the good spirits of the British people in their efforts to overcome and ignore the devastation of the Blitz. It states 'Out of terror and tragedy came courage and an unshakeable determination.' This shows us the height of the British morale; although the citizens were facing disastrous and frightening situations, they never gave up and showed outstanding bravery, even in the face of adversity. The source then goes on to describe their strength of heart, saying 'Those at home in the most appalling circumstances kept their sense of humour.' Even though the living conditions of the people in the home front could be horrific, and uncomfortable, they laughed and made jokes, and helped each other to get by. Humour helped distract them from the suffering, grief and distress they were facing. The last sentence: 'Their memories will break your hearts and make you smile,' tells us that the stories of their experiences will have a great
Why did the Government decide to evacuate children from Britains major cities during the early years of the Second World War?
Why Did the Government decide to Evacuate children from Britain's major cities during the early years of the Second World War? Britain declared war on Germany on September 1st 1939 however a couple of days before, the government started evacuating. One and a half million of the most vulnerable people where evacuated from large cities that were most at risk of being bombed, to places in the countryside such as Yorkshire and Somerset. The nine areas the Government decided to evacuate were; London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Teesside, Sheffield, Portsmouth and Merseyside. And people evacuated included about 827,000 school children under the age of fourteen, 7,000 blind and disabled people, 13,000 pregnant women, 524,000 mothers with young children under the age of five and 103,000 teachers. The code name for the operation of getting these people out of the major cities was called 'Operation Pied Piper'. 'Operation Pied Piper' affected around a third of the entire population, whether it be that they where evacuated, a member of their close family was evacuated or they hosted people who were evacuated, many people were effected by the decision the British government made to Evacuate. Once war had begun the government had expected total war, meaning that as well as soldiers, civilians were now targets in war. Experts estimated that enemy bombers would kill ten
The Different Roles of Women in WW1
Women in industry . What was the position of women before the war? Upper-class women did not work before the war and few worked after it. Working-class women, on the other hand, had to work to help keep their families. They worked before the war mostly in factories and in domestic services as maids. As many as 11% of all women worked as domestic servants before the war. The war gave them the chance to work in a greater variety of jobs but most of these new jobs were lost at the end of the war. Fewer married women of all classes worked. In some cases, like teaching, they had to give up their jobs once they got married. But more working-class married women worked than women from other classes. In some parts of the country and in some occupations, such as the Lancashire textile mills, they were expected to carry on working after they married. 2. Why were women workers needed in the war? Women were needed to fill the vacant jobs left by men who had gone to fight. 3. What was the government's attitude to female employment at first? When war first broke out the government was reluctant to allow women to do any of the jobs left vacant by the men who had gone to fight. 4. How did some women try to force to government to employ more women? Emmeline Pankhurst, a leading suffragette, campaigned vigorously with one of her daughters, Christabel, to have women more involved in the
Why did the British government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities in the early years of the Second World War?
PARDEEP CHOHAN 10:03 HISTORY COURSEWORK 1st DRAFT Why did the British government decide to evacuate children from Britain's major cities in the early years of the Second World War? The evacuation of children during the Second World War (1939-1941) was named operation 'Pied-Piper', Masses of children were moved from urban areas to the rural countryside. The British government took measures of evacuation in the early years of the Second World War for many different reasons. The reasons can be split up into two sections. One of the sections is 'phase one' of the evacuation process and the other is 'phase two'. Phase one of the evacuation process began on the 31st of august, three days before war was formally declared. This shows that the war had been 'seen' to be coming. Evacuating millions of children was no easy task, much planning and thinking needed to be done in order to make it successful. Plans for evacuation had been going on since the Munich crisis (1938) when Britain had been on the brink of war with Germany. About one and a half million children (in the first few days of evacuation) were sent from cities to countryside homes where they were believed to be safe. Towards the end of 1938 no German military action or bombing had taken place, people began to see it as the 'phoney' war, parents felt it unnecessary for their children to be sent away and so children
