London Blitz Dbq

Fear is something that everyone in their life experiences. Of course fear to different degrees. Maybe you are afraid of losing your job or afraid you won’t make it on the varsity team. But imagine the true fear of british people during Word War Two. They experienced the war in their backyards! Now that is true fear, not knowing if you were going to see tomorrow. What was scary for the British was the German bombing, named the Blitz. The Blitz was the period of time that they were being bombed by Germany. The Blitz started in September of 1940 until May of 1941. In 1941, Hitler’s attention was turned to the eastern front. (Aceto 28) Over the course of that time of the Blitz, 16,000 people were killed in London alone. (Aceto 28) This is what Londoners experienced everyday, 200 tons of bombs being dropped over the city everyday! (Aceto 28)

London was a big target during the Blitz but Liverpool was the next city that was bombed the most?. Liverpool was very important at this time because their port kept the country operating. That port recieved goods that the country needed. In Liverpool, being the next largest target, had 300 air raids. 4,000 people died and many many people were left

injured. I am talking about thousands of people. Along with many injuries and death, homes were destroyed. (Oakley 13) As you can imagine how many people were left homeless. Just to show how brave these people were, here is what Queen Elizabeth wrote to her mother after seeing the East End after bombs hit: “The people are marvellous, and full of fight.”
Air- raids and bombing became apart of British people’s routine.

It became a normal routine because it happened so much. To stay safe they had blackout curtains in their homes, and they taped up the panes of glass in the windows to prevent flying glass if they were bombed. Even if a house was bombed, most of the time, the area around the chimney, and the chimney itself stayed standing. A man named Francis Oakley tells of how him and his family would shelter by their chimney under their dining room table and cushions during air raids. He also talks about how much his parents worried about him, especially one night when he came home very late. In the conditions they were in, being in the middle of the war, parents worried about their children and if they were safe. (Oakley

14-16)
Along with the fear and worry of living another day, people in Britain had very little resources because they couldn’t receive many goods compliments of the German submarines in their ports. So to keep things equal and evenly distributed, people received ration cards. They were also allotted a certain number of ration coupons for certain items. For example, each person