Which wartime scheme moved children from British cities to safer rural areas?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Operation Pied Piper
- Step 1: Pied Piper began on 1 September 1939 and moved over a million people, mostly children.
- Step 2: Many were evacuated again in later waves.
Answer
Operation Pied Piper.
Why not the others: Overlord was D-Day, Dynamo the Dunkirk evacuation and Market Garden an operation in the Netherlands.
Practise more The Twentieth Century.
Free questions with an explanation for every one, and full timed General Knowledge (United Kingdom) mock tests.
More The Twentieth Century questions
- Which Labour Prime Minister won a landslide in 1945 and created the NHS?
- What was the Suez Crisis of 1956?
- Which Prime Minister won three consecutive general election victories from 1997 for Labour?
- In which year did all women over 21 gain equal voting rights with men?
- Which Prime Minister, in office from 1979 to 1990, was nicknamed the Iron Lady?
- Which politician, who became prime minister after the 1964 general election, famously referred to the 'white heat of technology'?