The Blitz The Blitz

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The Blitz beganThe Blitz began

• The Blitz was the sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, in the Second World War.Second World War. While the Blitz hit many towns and cities across the country, it began with the bombing of London for 57 consecutive nights. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses were destroyed or damaged in London alone. In late August 1940, before the date normally associated with the start of the Blitz

Country’s involved in the Country’s involved in the BlitzBlitz• London wasn’t the only

country that suffered threw out the Blitz. Other important military and industrial centres, such as Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Clydebank, Coventry, Exeter, Greenock, Sheffield, Swansea, Liverpool, Hull (the most heavily bombed city outside of London), Manchester, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Nottingham, Brighton, East Bourne, Sunderland and Southampton, suffered heavy air raids and high numbers of casualties.

People who got injured and People who got injured and killedkilled• 5,730 to 600,000 people

got killed and 10,000 to

1,200,000 got injured.