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Gcse History Evacuation Coursework

This document discusses the challenges of writing a GCSE history coursework on the evacuation of children during World War II. It notes that the task requires in-depth research, critical analysis, and effective presentation of historical arguments. Students must sort through various sources to construct a coherent narrative that addresses the specific requirements. The pressure to meet deadlines while maintaining high academic standards makes the task difficult. However, seeking assistance from reputable academic writing services can help alleviate stress and ensure assignments meet standards. It's important to choose a reliable service, like HelpWriting.net, that guarantees quality, originality, and confidentiality.

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Gcse History Evacuation Coursework

This document discusses the challenges of writing a GCSE history coursework on the evacuation of children during World War II. It notes that the task requires in-depth research, critical analysis, and effective presentation of historical arguments. Students must sort through various sources to construct a coherent narrative that addresses the specific requirements. The pressure to meet deadlines while maintaining high academic standards makes the task difficult. However, seeking assistance from reputable academic writing services can help alleviate stress and ensure assignments meet standards. It's important to choose a reliable service, like HelpWriting.net, that guarantees quality, originality, and confidentiality.

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The Germans in 1944 had created a flying bomb known as the Doodlebug, which would fly until it
ran out of petrol, and then would explode. This picture shows an organized and successful event to
the people who may be looking at the photograph. It freed up mothers to take part in vital war work.
However because it is positive it does back up the opinion of evacuation being a great success. The
fear of bombing was also linked to the zeppelins attack on Hartelpool and Great Yarmouth during
the war. The purpose of the source is not stated, and although it is likely to be used as propaganda,
the source supports that the evacuation was a success. It suggests that how some evacuees’
experiences were pleasant and some experiences were unpleasant. The photograph is centred on a
bath, which has four young boys inside it. The sources that people had a negative experience of
evacuation because evacuees got isolated from their friends and family. She tells that not all
evacuees came from poor backgrounds, the polite and well-mannered also got sent to slum homes.
Source C also backs up my own knowledge which also makes it reliable. Therefore this Source goes
against the statement that evacuation was a great success. This once again shows that the government
hasn't done enough to convince people that evacuation was for the better of the children of Britain
and to calm the worries of parents. To live in the countryside and to own land, people had to have a
considerable amount of money at their disposal. At this time the government controlled all the
aspects of media wanted to give the public the impression that evacuation was popular among those
affected and put out propaganda pictures and film to this effect. What were the main causes, events
and results of the evacuation of Dunkirk? However as we know already others had enjoyable and
profitable experiences. Although she will not have just made up completely the ideas bout
evacuation in her book, it is not her job to make sure every point in her novel is historically accurate.
These evacuations involved children, teachers, parents and other people. On the last day 622 soldiers
were rescued from the beaches and 25,553 from the harbour. Worksheets and practice exam
questions are included as well as a fact sheet which means you do not need the use of text book. So
in conclusion to source A, at first appearance it shows that evacuation was a success but on closer
inspection there are many questions raised about its reliability, meaning that, there is not enough
evidence to say it was successful. Children also had a good time in the country side as it was a very
nice experience. This is true in some cases, as some children suffered from terrible hygiene and some
claimed never to have used a toothbrush nor had ever had a bath. This might mean it is reliable
because the evacuated children were unbathed for months. From the early summer of 1939 the
government started publicising through the authorities by issuing posters, leaflets and messages to
the public. This means that the government haven't done enough to convince the thousands of
parents in this man's area to evacuate including the father himself. It said how evacuation was a
terrifying experience for the children which again backs up my own knowledge. This photograph was
issued by the government and the main purpose is to show that evacuation was good fun for children
and also because they made new friends. I also know that the children went with their teachers so
the content of Source B is very reliable in comparison to my own knowledge.
Admiral Ramsay of the Royal Navy was put in charge to complete the job by the 26th of May. They
managed to persuade people that evacuation was a success, rather than it actually been as successful.
I would say that the source could be called a tertiary because the writer did not write about
experience evacuation and it has been taken more then 30 years after which is likely that children
would not remember. History Evacuation Coursework - GCSE History - Marked by Teachers.
Because children were evacuated we were able to have a new generation. The children were sent to
the countryside which brought success because their new environment significantly. For some people
though it was not all well and good, some children got beaten and food taken away from them. This
often resulted in evacuees from poor families being looked after far better than they would have been
at home; this is considered a success of evacuation. Looking at the source we can see that the teacher
is remembering how she was feeling during evacuation and also we can see that it was written. Also,
it is only one area, one scene of the whole evacuation, it does not show the bad evacuations which
from my own knowledge were happening. The first point therefore to make is that it accomplished, at
least to some extent, its primary function: only twenty-seven of those who were evacuated and
stayed in the countryside for the duration of the war were killed by German bombings by 1942. The
main purpose of the source is to show that the government was very bad at organising evacuees with
carers. The Halt order was a brilliant chance for the BEF to defend Dunkirk before the Germans got
there. This might mean it is reliable because I know that evacuees got separated because their parents
had to stay at vital cities and their children had to be sent to the countryside. The content of the
extract appears to be similar to a realistic experience evacuees may have when first meeting their
hosts. By the 3rd of June all British soldiers were saved and the Germans were only 2 miles outside
Dunkirk. By having no education, it would have been hard for these children to read and write,
quality of life would have slipped down and they would have found it much harder to have got a
job. It shows that people did not get on well due to this clash as they could not cope with the filthy
habits of others which they were not used. The air raids had caused a big problem for Britain but
most children were safe because of shelter, which protected the children from the bombing. All
standing in single lines starting to lose hope of being evacuated back home. This put a sense of fear
and doubt into the minds of the children and even adults who were traveling. However, I feel that
Source B is more likely to be useful as an example if government propaganda at the time than
showing the start of children’s evacuation journey, as it is a personal experience of evacuation.
Around 3 million people were re-located to safer places. Unfortunately many evacuees could not
settle in the countryside.’ These are negative views towards evacuation which show that evacuation
was a failure. Who’d look after him?” So many people would rather be together and face the threat
together, rather than be split up in times of danger. AQA GCSE History B Coursework Evacuation
Sources Request. Also, during World War 2 three million individuals were evacuated and this picture
only shows around 50 people, thus only showing a small minority of views and not the opinion of
the whole country. This awareness led to a desire to do something about it, and, in 1945, a Labour
government was elected with a huge majority of 146, only bettered since by Tony Blair and New
Labour’s election victories in 1997 and 2001, which had majorities of 176 and 167 respectively. Most
of the German army was concentrating on the attack that would surprise the BEF by going through
the Ardennes at a very high speed across to Northern France. As I have said, this made it very hard
for evacuees, but it was also hard for hosts as well.
The aim of source D is to encourage foster parents to accept to look after children. There is no reason
why the teacher would lie, so all these points lead to Source C being a useful source. In few weeks
213,000 unaccompanied children left Britain’s largest industrial cities. Some people stayed with
foster carers for 2 to 3 moths and went back because there was no bombing however some people
stayed with the foster cares for a long time up to six years. So evacuation was unsuccessful in this
way as, even though the evacuees were safe, they were regularly very distressed and unhappy.
Source A is also a biased source because it is one sided, the source only Conway’s negative views
towards evacuation. I aim to find out just how successful evacuation was and using sources and my
own knowledge, I will do this (I am going to be using sources from books, texts and extracts of
people etc.) Evacuation basically was the situation in which younger children from big urban cities
were sent to the countryside in order to protect them from the damage expected in the world war.
Source B is from an interview with a teacher in 1988 who is remembering being evacuated. Their
responsibilities included the organisation of evacuees, from procedure, to their respective carers. See
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were looking for. Some hosts exploited the evacuees, making them work almost little slaves on their
farms or as unpaid domestic servants and there were even cases of neglect, cruelty and sexual abuse.
For some people though it was not all well and good, some children got beaten and food taken away
from them. Some even sent their own children there on holidays, for the country people who took in
the evacuees the successful contacts came from. For example, the government did not take into
account the social impact evacuation would have, or the possibility of long-term trauma for some
children. People will still argue their case as to whether or not evacuation was a success, but in my
opinion neither of these opinions can be fully justified as evacuation definitely had it positives and
negatives no matter what the facts and figures say. Mostly the lower class and the middle class were
evacuated whereas the higher class in the cities went and lived in their countryside home which
belonged to them. The Blitz, which was a wave of attacks by German bombers, who dropped vast
amount of bombs. Source C is an interview with a teacher which took place in 1988. This is because
it’s the first time the girl is seeing the host family. There were many reasons for this, but the main
one would be that he thought the power of the air force Luftwaffe could finish off the BEF it self
and he wanted to save the Panzers and tanks for later use, for the expected future battles in the south
of France. Evacuation was definitely a success for children because most importantly it saved their
lives and they got to witness what the countryside looked like for the first time; however they had
much trouble bonding with the foster carers. This was because if the children had been evacuated the
women would have free time to do more war work. Even though this source is from 1988 (49 years
after evacuation) and the teacher might not remember every detail, it would have been a life-
changing event. Another failure of evacuation was that the distribution of children was very bad,
children could be fostered by anyone and no record would be kept of who is fostering who. This
shows evacuation as a success, fulfilling its purpose as propaganda, although the Source is likely to
be bias and unreliable, it still shows evacuation as a success. Source D is another government
photograph, showing evacuees at bath-time. The father has based his views on gossip and rumors
with the people who live in his area. Another Source that can back up my point is Source I, this is an
extract from a Mass Observation Survey in May 1940. Bombs from above the sky were dropping
one after the other, frightening the soldiers. The blitz had scared the British a lot and it affected
morale a lot.
One obvious problem was that families were split up, little brothers and sisters were taken away
from each other, no matter what age they were. So in conclusion to source A, at first appearance it
shows that evacuation was a success but on closer inspection there are many questions raised about
its reliability, meaning that, there is not enough evidence to say it was successful. However the main
reason remained to protect the children. It tells of girl called Carrie and her experience of going to a
new foster home. This include 827 thousand school children under school age, 13 thousand
expectants mothers, 103 thousand teachers and 7 thousand handicapped people. The Germans, with
the ideas of their Doodlebug, introduced a much faster and powerful version to their attack, called
V2 Rockets. The key limitation is related to the provenance of the source. Overall evacuation was a
success for parents because it saved their parents lives which were probably the most important thing
for them. However once again, the Source is a positive Source and it was used to encourage
evacuation. The children were also evacuated because there were not many shelters at the beginning
of the war and the hospitals would not be able to treat people injured in the war if they were looking
after children and they needed to be somewhere where they would be safe and away from the
bombings so they didn’t get hurt, and it would also shatter morale because the children had been
killed and fathers would not want to carry on fighting. Child evacuees were normally either only
children or in groups. Many evacuees had bad experiences and some had good experiences with the
host families. This Source is from a textbook written for British schools. The source is biased because
it does not show give the advantages of the evacuation therefore we can not trust it. For example
source 16 suggests that the young boy made new friends with two girls and had a good time showing
them around. These centre around the fact that the source is an extract from a novel. In the
photograph there are the teachers and children who are quite happily walking towards the train
station, carrying their belongings. The limitations of the Source plays a big role in its reliability too. It
was predicted that the evacuation would last a couple of days and they would save about 40,000
people. Why did evacuation take place in the early years of World War Two. Many people often only
remember the event how they want to remember it. Not all foster carers thought of evacuation as
being a bad experience, only some foster carers enjoyed spending time with evacuees because they
naturally bonded well with them. Firstly, the novel’s purpose is to entertain children and to
encourage and inform them of evacuation. Considering the fact that Britain went to war just two
days after the evacuation began, and that the government first anticipated that 3.5 million children
would leave the cities, the whole operation went smoothly, children were out the cities by the time
war started, had travelled fine, had new homes and they had no risk of being killed. Many hosts
believed that, as they had to pay for the evacuees’ upkeep, they should have to earn it, especially
since the money that the government gave host families to help them often was not enough. The first
one was to be an attack through Belgium and was a decoy to draw the BEF into Belgium but this
was not the main attack. There are many positives and negatives to the evacuation, so I am drawn to
a conclusion of it was both a failure and a success. It is clear in Source B that both teachers and
children are making their way to a train station. They were most probably afraid to talk because they
had not been told where they were going and if they were ever to return back home. The fact that
evacuation occurred cannot be changed now and people will have to live with what happened
whether it was a positive or negative time for them.

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