Britain Evacuation In World War Two
The British government tried to evacuate all the children during the early years of world war two in order to protect the most valuable thing to the country and that was the future generation. With the future generation Britain would have less soldiers to fight wars, less people to work in the factories to create bombs and new weapons and without the future generation there would be no-one to run the country in later years.
However this was the main reason and their was loads of important reasons as well. Another reason is because of fear people might have. Firstly the fear of a gas attack, and with many people remembering the results of gas attacks in world war one in the trenches. So to help stop this far the government issued everyone with a gas mask to try and control this fear.
However this wasn't the only fear which had been spread through the hearts of people, also the fear of mass bombing of cities. The British Government knew how effective the new German way of bombing was through the bombing of Spanish cities for example the bombing of Guernica in the Spanish civil war in 1936. Also the British knew that technology had improved greatly since world war one and that planes could bomb higher, faster, longer and with greater range than the world war one zeppelins.
And finally another type of fear the government had to deal with was the fear of mass panic of the British citizens. The government knew that if people saw their children lying dead on the street then people would loose the will to fight and then people would stop working in the factories, producing less supplies of weapons and ammunition for the people on the front line and because of this eventually lose the war.
Through these fears we can assume that by one fear gripping the British civilians all of them will because If mass bombing started then the cities and towns would be destroyed and this would create a drop in morale and...
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