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Great Speeches Collection: Winston Churchill Speech - Their Finest Hour. The Spirit of the Blitz. After the bombings began, life was completely turned upside down for civilians.

The Spirit of the Blitz

People began to sleep in the tube (subway) stations to be safer. Every day people woke up to see if anything of theirs was hit. If their home was destroyed, the whole family would live in a temporary shelter until they could find some other accommodation. World War II in Europe Timeline: The Blitz. The Blitz refers to the strategic bombing campaign conducted by the Germans against London and other cities in England from September of 1940 through May of 1941, targeting populated areas, factories and dock yards.

World War II in Europe Timeline: The Blitz

The first German attack on London actually occurred by accident. On the night of August 24, 1940, Luftwaffe bombers aiming for military targets on the outskirts of London drifted off course and instead dropped their bombs on the center of London destroying several homes and killing civilians. Amid the public outrage that followed, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, believing it was a deliberate attack, ordered Berlin to be bombed the next evening. World War II in Europe Timeline. World War Two - The Blitz. In the summer of 1940, Hitler decided to invade Britain.

World War Two - The Blitz

His plan was to take control of the English Channel by destroying the Royal Airforce and then to send German troops into Britain to take control. In July 1940, Hitler put his plan into operation. The German airforce (Luftwaffe) began making daily bombing raids on British ships, ports, radar stations, airfields and aircraft factories. This became known as the Battle of Britain. The Royal Airforce took to the skies and there were many battles between British and German planes over the Channel and South Coast.