Starter quiz
- Complete the sentence: A person who has been moved to another place for safety is an ______.
- 'evacuee' ✓
- What were some of the areas that civilians were evacuated from?
- London ✓
- Wales
- Birmingham ✓
- Somerset
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- On what date did Operation Pied Piper (the plan for evacuating civilians) begin?
- 1st September 1940
- 1st September 1938
- 1st September 1939 ✓
- 1st September 1941
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- Complete the sentence. The night-time bombing attacks on major British cities by Nazi Germany from September 1940 is known as ‘The ______’.
- 'Blitz' ✓
- What was one of the main reasons that Nazi Germany focused their bombing attacks on cities?
- destroy farmlands
- destroy churches
- destroy industries ✓
- destroy museums
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- How many homes had been damaged or destroyed during WWII?
- two million ✓
- two thousand
- two hundred
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Exit quiz
- True of false: During the Second World War, nurses only did tasks such as cleaning wards and providing meals.
- True
- False ✓
- Who discovered new methods to store and transport blood during WWII?
- Charles Drew ✓
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Dickens
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- What is the method of surgery that Archibald McIndoe used at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead called?
- 'plastic surgery' ✓
- What was the name of the nurse who ran the burns ward at Queen Victoria Hospital, where she looked after badly burnt airmen who were receiving treatment.
- Sister Mary Meally ✓
- Mollie Lentaigne
- Princess Ademola
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- What was the nickname given to wartime nurses?
- ATS ✓
- WAAF
- QAs
- WRNS ✓
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- Which statements about nurses in WWII are correct?
- They served all over the world. ✓
- They only served in England.
- They only worked in hospitals.
- They worked close to battle lines. ✓
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Key learning points
- Nursing in the Second World War brought new people to Britain and helped new medical techniques to succeed.
- At the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead new plastic surgery techniques were trialled on badly injured soldiers.
- Sister Mary Meally ran the burns ward, where she looked after badly burnt airmen who were receiving treatment.
- Many West African and Caribbean women travelled to, and trained as nurses in Britain during World War II.
- These included Princess Ademola, daughter of the Alake of Abeokuta, an important king in Nigeria.
Common misconception
Pupils may think that nurses only did tasks like cleaning wards and providing meals.
Nurses did three years of training and had to pass exams in anatomy and physiology. They handled weapons on the front line and ran the hospitals caring for the injured in Britain.
Keywords
Plastic surgery - surgery that involves the reconstruction or repair of the body is called plastic surgery
Nigeria - Nigeria is a country in West Africa and at the time of the Second World War was part of the British Empire
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