The Evacuation of British Children During World War II At the start of the Second World War, the British government introduced a plan of evacuation. It was to evacuate children and pregnant women from evacuation areas where heavy bombing was expected. The heavy bombing was expected in large cities and industrial areas. The government expected a heavy bombing campaign in towns, cities, and industrial areas, so they expected heavy casualties. After the tragedies of World War 1, where Britain was bombed for the first time, this gave people real fear because it was the first time had been bombed and people had a lot of fear. Even though it only happened near the end of the war 1000s of people were killed and a lot of property was damaged. Also this time there was the fear that Germany could bomb Britain with poison gas, so the government issued everyone even babies with Anderson gas masks over 38 million were sent out with a leaflet telling people how to use them. They were issued because the government considered a gas attack a real threat. Also Germans had improved there technology there aeroplanes could now fly faster, higher, further and carry more bombs and there were bigger, this all summed up to more damage and more deaths this is why children were evacuated. The British people had also seen newsreels of bombardment on civilian and they would have thought if it is happen to them it could happen to us. They saw what happened in Manchuria in the war between Japan and china; they also saw what happened in Abyssinia where they the Italian attacked with poison gas. But especially in the Spanish civil war in Guernica where Hitler helped out by used German aircraft. He used this to test out the aircraft and there bombing techniques. Guernica was bombed on market day 1000s were killed, this was shown back in Britain as dead children lying in the streets. This will have given people a real fear in there minds and they would be thinking `are we next?
Some people died when the Allies continuously bombed the railway, unaware that their own people were working on it and creating more work for them to do.
In the midst of that catastrophe, many people took their own lives so they wouldn’t have to face conflict afterwards. This shows why many people think a conflict will never have a positive outcome.
that was effecting there very lives. It rallied the people to make the government find a
...rom the war unlike the countries who participated at the start. Many of the European countries lost a lot of power and started taking a passive attitude towards war, which weakened them to a great extent. A war so destructive costing millions of lives and billions of dollars. It brought forth many new technology of mass destruction and continued to contribute into new types of weapon development. New technology can be helpful and evil at the same time. Strategies and combat techniques were developed to maximize the potential of the weapons. These new ways of fighting only to come deadlier by the day. It deformed the land, tortured soldiers, and brought death along with it. A whole generation of young soldiers were lost and to never able to see the day of light ever again. The worst war ever to be told that left a historical moment and a permanent fear of future wars.
There are also a few dates where a huge amount of Jews died. This is important to the topic because it shows the devastation killing squads can cause. During the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the killing squads followed the German Army. Their orders were to destroy all Jews, Communist, and Gypsies. “By the end of 1942, over a million Soviet Jews died” (USHMM). This is a very large amount of people to die in only half a year. During the summer of 1942, 137,346 Jews are killed according to S.S Karl Jaegers report. Almost all Jews in small towns in Lithuania are killed. 35,000 survivors are put into forced labor (USHMM). There was no good outcome for the Jews. It was either die or be put into labor. The facts and figures show the massive number of killed Jews. The killings would even be bigger if the time span was to increase.
and militiamen. It spread to several states and 34 lives were lost. The combined forces
over 6 million Jews in what is know to day as the holocaust (death by
In 1942 Roosevelt signed the Executive order 9066 which forced all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. They were forced out no matter their loyalty or their citizenship. These Japanese-Americans were sent to Internment camps which were located in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. There were ten camps all-together and 120,000 people filled them (2009). The immigrants were deprived of their traditional respect when their children who were American-born were indorsed authority positions within the camps. In 1945 Japanese-American citizens with undisrupted loyalty were allowed to return to the West Coast, but not until 1946 was the last camp closed.
approximately 11 million people were killed in the war). These made the World War 2 the
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Many Americans were afraid of another attack, so the state representatives pressured President Roosevelt to do something about the Japanese who were living in the United States at the time. President Roosevelt authorized the internment with Executive Order 9066 which allowed local military commanders to designate military areas as exclusion zones, from which any or all persons may be excluded. Twelve days later, this was used to declare that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the entire Pacific coast. This included all of California and most of Oregon and Washington.
After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the United States was filled with panic. Along the Pacific coast of the U.S., where residents feared more Japanese attacks on their cities, homes, and businesses, this feeling was especially great. During the time preceding World War II, there were approximately 112,000 persons of Japanese descent living in California, Arizona, and coastal Oregon and Washington. These immigrants traveled to American hoping to be free, acquire jobs, and for some a chance to start a new life. Some immigrants worked in mines, others helped to develop the United States Railroad, many were fishermen, farmers, and some agricultural laborers.
This was an example of genocide that we can learn from and know what genocide is so we can stop genocide from occurring in the future because we are the next generation of the world..
World War II, known as the largest armed conflict in history, began in Europe in the 1930s and led to effect many people. The war resulted in not only the involvement of more countries than any other war but also introduced powerful, new, nuclear weapons that also contributed to the most deaths. As Hitler rose to power in 1933 the Holocaust began, his quest for the ‘perfect’ race resulted in the use of concentration camps, which would help to create the largest genocide of people in history.
World War II was a time of deliberate hate among groups of innocent people who were used as scapegoats. Japanese-Americans were persecuted due to the fact that they looked like citizens of Japan, who had attacked the United States on December 7th, 1941 at the naval base, Pearl Harbor. This hatred toward the group was due to newspapers creating a scare for the American people, as well as the government restricting the rights of Japanese-Americans. The Japanese-Americans were mistreated during World War II for no other reason than being different. These men, women, and children were loathed by the American public for looking like the people of the Japanese army that had attacked the United States. These people were only hated by association, even though many had come to the United States to create a better life for their family.
middle of paper ... ... Unlike other travesties that help to make the community stronger, this just pulls communities apart. To make matters worse, over the course of just six years, seventy-five million people have died. There are about fifteen million in Southwest Asia.