The Blitz WWII By Lieutenant Frame and Brigade Birch Contents

- What Was The Blitz Why Did The Blitz 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. Contents

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. Luftwaffe Contents

People in the war would be given an Anderson shelter. The Anderson Shelters was used For to protect people when a bomb went off. Contents

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. Contents

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 Contents

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. Contents

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.ARP Contents

v1 (aka deadly the doodlebugs) And v2 where the flying bombs of wwii! they would fly in the air without a pilot then there engine Would cut out and the bomb would drop. The v2 was so dangerous you couldn’t hear it coming. Contents

Evacuation in WWII was where children where children left the cities (or country) to live with relatives or host family's.Evacuation Some evacuees where excited to go and thought of it as an adventure some where scared, depending on their home life. Contents