Brief explanation on the blitz please!?

Question

Can you please help me with a brief explanation of the blitz including when it started and ended.

I've got to do a long essay and I'm stuck on this bit!

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

The Blitz (short for Blitzkreig, or lightning war) was between Sept 1940 and i think May 1941, and involved sustained bombing of British towns and cities by the German Luftwaffe.  They started bombing London but expanded the campaign to include other major military and industrial targets like the naval bases on the Channel coast, the shipyards of Glasgow, Liverpool and Newcastle, and the munitions factories of the Midlands.

The point of the Blitz was to enable a sea invasion of the British Isles by wiping out defensive posts and destroying morale, but it failed (hence the term "Blitz spirit" for someone who doesn't let the worst of times get them down.)

check out Wikipedia for a detailed breakdown of events and timings!

Answer 2

Try wilkipedia or go to the library.  If you do your own solid research it will reflect in your learning and your scores on essays because you might put something in your essay your teacher was not expecting to see.

Answer 3

Before you start you should know that Blitz is not short for Blitzkrieg, even though Wikipedia insists it is, the Blitz was the name the British press applied to the campaign of bombing against Britain (NB not just London or even just England), Blitzkrieg was the name the Germans applied to the tactics they had employed against Poland, the Low Countries and France (a combined military and air-force assault).

This a fair precis of the events

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/w...

Answer 4

It started with the accidental bombing of London by a German pilot that was lost> Hitler had forbidden the bombing of London and the pilot was told to report to Berlin. In the meantime the RAF sent a small retaliation raid to bomb Berlin . Hitler had promised that no British bombs would ever land on Berlin and the resultant loss of face caused Hitler to order the Destruction of London. This was a blessing in disguise for the RAF as it turned the German attention away from the destruction of RAF fighter airfields. The East End and the Docks were very badly bombed although one bomb narrowly missed Buck House. At this stage the government did not want people sheltering in the underground and tried unsuccessfully to prevent them doing so. Can i suggest that you ask a question of any funny stories or quotes from this period which could add a human interest to your essay> One from my mother was it was her job as a kid to take the jelly for several families to the only available fridge in her street, a German fighter strafed the street and she had to run. She got into dead trouble because by the time she reached the shelter there was no jelly left.