The Blitz

WWIIBy Lieutenant Frame and Brigade Birch

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What Was The Blitz

Why Did TheBlitz Start

Air Raids And Air Raid

Shelters

Black Outs

Barrage Balloons

Gas Masks

ARP Wardens

V1s And V2s

Evacuation

WWII Posters

Glossary

What was the Blitz?

• Blitz is short for Blitzkrieg this is German for Lightning War.

• The Blitz was a period of intense bombing by the Germans over the cities of England.

• The Blitz lasted 57 continues nights.

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Why Did The Blitz Start?

• The Blitz started because a Luftwaffe accidently missed is target, which was the ship docks, and hit London instead. We took quick action and bombed Berlin, Hitler was so angry he decided to make a new target, the cities of Britain.

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People in the war would be given an

Anderson shelter.The Anderson Shelters was usedFor to protect people when a bomb

went off.

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• The Black out was a period were no source of light was aloud so during the night the Luftwaffe didn’t know were to bomb

• The Blackout When did The Blackout begin? • Britain was blacked out on 1st September

1939, two days before the outbreak of war. • During the war, everyone had to cover their

windows and doors at night (before sunset) with heavy blackout curtains, cardboard or paint. Content

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• Barrage Balloons were lighter-than-air balloons that were flown over ships and important buildings, as a protection against low-flying aircraft.The balloons were tied down by a very strong cable, so the balloon was quite large. It is said any aircraft that dived too low to shoot or bomb a target would fly into this and crash

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Gas masks where used so people could breath clear air if there was a gas attack (which there never was!) children had Mickey mouse gas masks so that they would wear them.

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• ARP wardens had very important jobs there people who didn’t go to war but helped clear out bombed houses and looked for survivors. They also called the siren and the all clear.

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v1 (aka deadly the doodlebugs) And v2 where the flying bombs of wwii!

they would fly in the air without a pilot then there engineWould cut out and the bomb would drop.

The v2 was so dangerous you couldn’thear it coming.

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• Evacuation in WWII was where children where children left the cities (or country) to live with relatives or host family's.

• Some evacuees where excited to go and thought of it as an adventure some where scared, depending on their home life.

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