Why the Major Cities of Britain were Bombed by the Germans in 1940 and 1941
The Blitz were the intense over-night bombing of major British cities
and industrial areas. This was the result of the Germans losing the
battle of Britain, so now Hitler changed his tactics and the Blitz
began. The Germans bombed the major cities of Britain for three main
reasons; these were to destroy the morale of the British, to cause
damage to the areas vital to the British war effort and to try to take
over Britain using different tactics.
The main aim of the Blitz was to break the morale of the British
therefore leaving them without the will to fight and win. To try and
achieve this Hitler dropped 19,000 tonnes of bombs on London, which
was the most populated city and mass deaths were almost certain. The
bombings destroyed homes, lives and families. Other heavily populated
cities (Birmingham and Manchester) were also bombed and Hitler hoped
that the bombing throughout the country would lead to civilians being
effected by the great amount of life lost, hence losing all morale and
choosing not to go to war. The shear death and destruction was aimed
to make British admit defeat and surrender.
The Germans were also bombing major cities to cause damage to areas
vital to war effort. These included the industrial areas, ports,
shipbuilding areas etc. The London docklands and other areas were
bombed destroying weapons so the British could not fight back. They
now could not import any weapons or goods, so now people were widely
affected due to less food and rations. Shipbuilding areas and naval
bases like Plymouth, Glasgow, Liverpool and Birkenhead were bombed
destroying ships so the British could not retaliate. Hitler bombed
these cities because without weapons and goods that were required the
British’s war effort would be weakened so that they would be unable to
continue.
The third reason for starting the Blitz was that the Germans needed to
change their tactics to be successful. As the Luftwaffe had lost the
Ways the British Government Attempted to Hide the Effects of the Blitz from the People of Britain
the capture of the ridge as a necessary diversion, and he declined to. modify his plans: evidence, some say, of an inflexible strategy. No Man's Land, Flanders 1919However, numerous factors are cited to. support the decision taken to continue the offensive into the autumn. With the Russian withdrawal from the war, British vulnerability to submarine attacks launched from the Belgian coast, and weakened French.
”Battle of Britain, in World War II, a series of air battles between Great Britain and Germany, fought over Britain from Aug. to Oct., 1940. As a prelude to a planned invasion of England, the German Luftwaffe attacked British coastal defenses, radar stations, and shipping. On Aug. 24 the attack was shifted inland to Royal Air Force installations and aircraft factories in an effort to gain control of the air over S England. Failing to destroy the RAF, the Germans began (Sept. 7) The night bombing, or blitz, of London. Heavy night bombings of English cities continued into October, when the attack was shifted back to coastal installations. The Germans gradually gave up hope of invading England, and the battle tapered off by the end of October. Though heavily outnumbered, the RAF put up a gallant defense; radar, used for the first time in battle by Britain, played an important role. The Germans lost some 2,300 aircraft; the RAF 900. The Battle of Britain was the first major failure of the Germans in World War II, and it thwarted Hitler's plan to force Britain to accept peace or face invasion” (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia).
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The government evacuated children from major cities in Britain to safer areas of the country in response to a new style of warfare that had emerged from World War One, due to the use of aircraft. Aircraft began to target industrial areas in an attempt to damage a country’s economy, and therefore damage their ability on the front line, and morale. However, accuracy was bad and so bombs often landed off target and injured civilians who worked or lived in the industrial areas. The Government decided that the children needed to be protected as they were the next generation and fewer child deaths meant higher morale for the British people. Bombs were less likely to fall on rural areas of Great Britain and so the government decided to evacuate people who could not help the war effort out to houses, and families, in the countryside.
...n Longmate, 158). This despair did not reach the Luftwaffe and Hitler because they would not have publicized such feelings in their attempt to keep up the British war spirit. One of the witnesses to the bombing of Coventry even realized the situation “deducing that ‘morale was obviously failing’” (Longmate, 38). Furthermore, the Royal Air Force report in Air Raid: The Bombing of Coventry, 1940 exposed that the working classes were believed to be revolt, another indication of poor morale.
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Purpose The principal objective of the operation was to get Allied troops across the Rhine. Three main advantages were expected to be achieved: · Cutting the land exit of the Germans remaining in western Holland. · Outflanking the enemy's frontier defences, the West Wall or the Siegfriedline · Positioning British ground forces for a following drive into Germany along the North German plain. . 2. Major Events The 17th of September was the so called "Day Zero" of the operation.
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The world plunged into World War II in 1939, from the unsettlement between countries. Different countries had different ideas about world affairs. Some countries preferred appeasement and other countries preferred collective securities to solve problems such as the turmoil in Germany. According to the circumstances of Europe during 1939, from economic depression and unsettlement between countries, collective security was the best answer. Appeasement was attempted, but it turned out to be a failure.
Six hours later, France would also declare war on Germany. In May 1940, Britain would get a more aggressive pro-war leader, Winston Churchill, to replace Neville Chamberlain. Later that month, on May 26, 1940, in the face of a large-scale German attack, British soldiers on the home front were forced to perform one of the largest evacuations in history, The Evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk on the Belgian coast. From July through October, the British people suffered during the Battle of Britain, which was a lot of intense German bombings. But, the Royal Air Force successfully defended its homeland from the German Luftwaffe, and the Nazis were unable to crush British morale.