Evacuation During The Second World War : The Facts
Introduction
1. What was the purpose of evacuation during the Second World War?
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2. What was the name of the operation to evacuate civilians from urban areas?
3. When did evacuation begin?
4. How many civilians were moved during the war?
5. Why were some people evacuated from the south and east coast in June 1940?
6. Why were some people evacuated after September 1940?
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Scheme
7. How was the Government Evacuation Scheme designed to work?
8. What percentage of children did the government think would move away from cities
and how many actually did after the summer of 1939?
9. Why was evacuation not as efficiently organised as it could have been?
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10. When did evacuation officially begin?
11. What were some of the problems that the scheme experienced?
12. How many people were moved during the first three days of evacuation?
13. What was enuresis and why did it cause difficulties for host families?
14. What did some wealthy people choose to do instead of evacuation?
15. Give some examples of other types of evacuation apart from people.
16. What was ‘Plan Yellow.’?
17. What was the ‘Black Move?’
18. How was education affected by evacuation?
Evacuation
Centres
Other
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19. What did the National Camps Corporation set up?
20. What was the Children’s Overseas Reception Board? (CORB)
21. What was the reaction to the Blitz in London after September 1940?
22. What number of people were evacuated at the peak of evacuation in February 1941?
23. When was evacuation officially halted?
24. When were people officially encouraged to return to London?
25. How many people still did not have homes by March 1946?