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  1. What was the blitz?

    What was the Blitz? 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. London was bombed ever day and night, bar one, for 11 weeks.

  2. Evacuation During World War Two

    From June 13 to June 18, 1940, around 100,000 children were evacuated (in many cases re-evacuated). When the Blitz began on 7 September 1940, children who had returned home or had not been evacuated were evacuated. By the end of 1941, city centres, especially London, became safer. From June 1944, the Germans attacked again by firing V1 rockets ...

  3. Blitz, The

    The Blitz began at around 4 pm on September 7, 1940, when German bomber planes first appeared over London. For 57 nights—until November 2—more than 1 million bombs were dropped on the capital city. For two hours on the first day, 348 German bombers and 617 fighters blasted London. Later, guided by the fires caused by the first attack, a ...

  4. World War Two

    Air Raids Children lived in fear from the constant threat of air raids. They spent some nights living in air raid shelters just in case German planes dropped bombs on their houses. Their fears came true during the blitz. One in ten of the deaths during the Blitz of London from 1940 to 1941 were children.

  5. What was the Blitz?

    This chapter is all about the Blitz for kids and will answer lots of your questions about what the Blitz was and what life during the Blitz WW2 was like. Read on to discover the Blitz facts for kids. Each fact is easy to remember and will help you to understand the important bits about the Blitz.

  6. The Blitz

    The Blitz was an intense bombing campaign that Germany launched against Britain in 1940, during World War II. For eight months German airplanes dropped bombs on London,…

  7. The Blitz: All we need to know about World War II?

    The Blitz of 1940 is certainly a significant event in Britain's past, one which has repeatedly been drawn upon as a symbol of national consciousness. It was a time when most of Europe had been defeated by the Nazi regime in Germany, typically through 'Blitzkrieg' - or lightning war methods of attack - whereby heavy bombing from the ...

  8. The Blitz Activities KS2

    A collection of engaging and easy-to-use resources for teaching the Blitz to KS2. All of the Blitz activities for KS2 included here are teacher-created!

  9. What was the Blitz?

    This chapter is all about the Blitz for kids and will answer lots of your questions about what the Blitz was and what life during the Blitz WW2 was like. Read on to discover the Blitz facts for kids. Each fact is easy to remember and will help you to understand the important bits about the Blitz.

  10. The Blitz KS2 PowerPoint

    Here is a list of facts that KS2 pupils learn about the Blitz: Blitz is short for the German word 'Blitzkrieg' which stands for Lightning War in English. On September 7th, 1940, the German air force had a change of strategy. Instead of bombing the British Air Force, they turned their attention to London. Nearly 2,000 people were killed or wounded on the first night of the Blitz bombing. Some ...

  11. The Battle of Britain

    Battle of Britain is the name commonly given to the effort by the Luftwaffe to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), before a planned sea and airborne invasion of Britain during the Second World War. The Luftwaffe tried to destroy the Royal Air Force. The Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft used by the ...

  12. Blitz

    The Blitz (which is German for "lightning war") was a period where the Germans started dropping bombs on large British cities such as London. It lasted from 1940 to 1941 and killed 43,000 people over the 8 months it happened.

  13. PDF Scheme of work: The Blitz

    The Historical Association's Scheme of Work for Primary History The Blitz: All we need to know about World War 2? Year 5/6 About this unit This unit provides children the opportunity to look at World War 2 as an aspect of British history that extends pupils' chronological knowledge beyond 1066.

  14. WW2 Home Front

    WW2 Home Front - The Blitz. A colourful, well-presented, and creative resource. Includes worksheets and embedded links, ideas and activities. Main contents … ( 67 pages in total ) 1 - Simple key word and vocabulary starter, matching activity. Extension, differentiation option included.

  15. United Kingdom: The Blitz Facts & Worksheets

    The Blitz was the intense bombing campaign undertaken by Nazi Germany against the United Kingdom during World War II. Click for Blitz facts and worksheets in PDF format!

  16. World War Two (WW2) for Kids

    World War II was total war - every person, every business, every service was involved. Britain did not fight alone, the war also involved many countries. World War II involved 61 countries with 1.7 billion people (three quarters of the world's population). Fifty million people lost their lives and hundreds of millions people were injured.

  17. The Blitz

    The Blitz Primary Resources. Help students learn about the bombing of British Cities in the Second World War with our range of resources on The Blitz for Key Stage 1 History students. Featuring Blitz PowerPoints, displays and vocabulary activities including key phrases such as air raid, London, bomb, Luftwaffe and siren.

  18. The Blackout World War Two

    To help prevent accidents white stripes were painted on the roads and on lamp-posts. People were encouraged to walk facing the traffic and men were advised to leave their shirt-tails hanging out so that they could be seen by cars with dimmed headlights.

  19. Primary Homework Help Ww2 Blitz

    Primary Homework Help Ww2 Blitz - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free.

  20. The Blitz Using Evidence

    The Blitz teaching resources to help you teach this topic at KS2. A thought-provoking activity where pairs or groups discuss the evidence provided by a variety of historical sources from the Blitz. Teaching resources like these sources of evidence worksheets are perfect for helping KS2 children engage with the topic.

  21. Gas masks during ww2

    The masks were made of black rubber, which was very hot and smelly. It was difficult to breathe when wearing a gas mask. When you breathed in the air was sucked through the filter to take out the gas. When you breathed out the whole mask was pushed away from your face to let the air out. Woman wearing a gas mask.