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What was the Blitz?
Why did the Blitz start?
Air raid and Air raid shelters
Blackouts
Barrage balloons
Gas masks
ARP Warden
V1 V2 flying bombs
Evacuation
Areas of interest
Glossary
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The heavy and frequent bombing attacks on London
and other cities was known as the 'Blitz'. Night
after night, from September 1940 until May 1941,
German bombers attacked British cities, ports and
industrial areas.
What was the Blitz?
An air raid shelter is safety zone to stop people
a getting hurt from the shrapnel.
The Blitz lasted for 57 days.
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Why did the Blitz start
Germany missed a oil rig and bombed London, so
Churchill bombed back and that started the blitz.
Churchill bombed back at all of Germanys main
cities.
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As the night raids became so frequent People
needed to protect themselves from the bombs being
dropped by German aircraft. , many people who
were tired of repeatedly interrupting their sleep
to go back and forth to the shelters, virtually
took up residence in a shelter.
Air raid and Air raid shelters.
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Blackouts
Britain was blacked out on 1st September 1939,
two days before the outbreak of war
The Blackout was when all of London had to turn
all of there lights off so German bombers
wouldn't see us at night so they couldn't bomb
them.
During the war, everyone had to cover their
windows and doors at night (before sunset) with
heavy blackout curtains, cardboard or paint.
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Barrage Balloons
To prevent low fights and pinpoint bombing by the
Luftwaffe, the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) put up
huge barrage balloons. Each balloon was moored to
a wagon by a cable. These cables were strong
enough to destroy any aircraft colliding with
them. On the wagon was a winch that enabled the
RAF Balloon Command to control the height of the
barrage balloon. The balloons achieved the main
objective of discouraging dive bombing and
low-level attacks.
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Gas Masks
Gas masks were issued to all British civilians at
the start of World War Two. There was a very real
fear in Britain that Nazi German bombers would
drop poison gas bombs. Therefore, all civilians
were issued with gas masks. The bombing of
Guernica in the Spanish Civil War had shown what
could happen when bombers got through.
Children had Mickey mouse gas masks so they
weren't so scared.
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ARP Wardens
Their main purpose of ARP Wardens was to patrol
the streets during blackout and to ensure that no
light was visible. If a light was spotted, the
warden would alert the person/people responsible
by shouting something like "Put that light out!"
or "Cover that window!".
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On the 8th September 1944 a huge explosion
occurred in Stavely Road Chiswick in south west
London.There was no siren, no warning. This was
the first ballistic missile,Hitler's much vaunted
V2 Rocket. It weighed 13 tons and had arrived
via the stratosphere at 3,000 miles an hour.
V1 and v2 flying bombs
The V1  was capable of killing large numbers of
people, inflicting terrible injuries and causing
huge material damage to buildings and homes. The
 V1 caused blast damage over a wide area. It
exploded on the surface, and a huge blast wave.
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Evacuation
People expected cities to be bombed, as enemy
planes tried to destroy factories. But bombs
would hit homes and schools too, so children
would be in danger. The government tried at the
start of the war to 'empty the cities' of
children and mothers, This was 'evacuation', to
protect them from air raids.
Evacuation tried to ensure the safety of young
children from the cities that were considered to
be in danger of German bombing - London,
Coventry, Birmingham, Portsmouth etc.
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Areas of interest
D-Day is a military term designating the start of
a military operation. The D-day in modern
history refers to what happened on 6th June 1944
- the day on which the Battle of Normandy began.
It was a huge effort involving months of secret
preparations. Thousands of Allied troops landed
on the beaches of Normandy, in northern France,
at the start of the battle to liberate mainland
Europe from Nazi occupation.
V-E Day stands for Victory in Europe Day. It
marks a very important event in World War 2 - the
end of the War with Germany
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Glosary
ARP-Air Raid precaution Warden
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A billeting officer was someone who got
evacuee's) off the train then went around the
houses asking the home owners to take in an
evacuee's)
Heres a video about the Blitz
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