The evacuation of British children during the Second World War At the start of the Second World War, the British government introduced an evacuation plan. The aim was to evacuate children and pregnant women from evacuation areas where heavy shelling was expected. 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 losses. the tragedies of the First World War, when Britain was bombed for the first time, gave people real fear because it was the first time it had been bombed and people were very afraid. Although this only happened towards the end of the war, thousands of people were killed and much property was damaged. This time too there was fear that Germany could bomb Britain with poisonous gas, so the government distributed Anderson gas masks, over 38 million of them, to everyone, even children, with a leaflet explaining to people how to use them. They were issued because the government considered a gas attack a real threat. Also the Germans had improved the technology there, the airplanes could now fly faster, higher, farther and carry more bombs and were bigger, all this added up to more damage and more deaths, that's why the children were evacuated. The British people had also seen newsreels of bombings of civilians and civilians. they would have thought that if it happened 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 the Italians attacked with poisonous gas. But especially in the Spanish Civil War in Guernica, where Hitler helped with used German planes. He used it to test the aircraft and bombing techniques. Guernica was bombed on market day, thousands of people were killed, this was demonstrated in Britain as dead children lying in the streets. This will have given people real fear in their minds and they would have thought “we are next?"?