The Blitz

RAF: Royal Air Force

bombing raids - air raids - shelter

civilian targets

surrender into submission

cities - industrial areas - cities

Sheffield - Manchester - Liverpool - London - Southampton - Glasgow

firemen

loud sirens

direct hit - blast (=explosion) - shrapnel (éclats d'obus) damage

Anderson shelters

Morrison shelters

communnal shelters (the Underground)

families split up

shortages (=pénuries)- rationing

blackout

Britsh morale

Russia

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massive aerial bombing of England

16 British cities

8 month-long

London 57 consecutive nights

bombed 71 times

force massive evacuation

keep calm and carry on

break the morale

force to surrender

Operation Barbarossa

invasion of Russia