The Importance Of The Blitz In Britain During World War II

World War II was a destructive and horrible war. Britain was the main target of the Germans at the beginning of the war. The Germans focused much of their air force at Britain. Air Warfare was an important tool they used to cripple Britain. London got attacked quite often in particular by German aircraft. London and its surrounding cities were targeted often to destroy Britain’s defenses and morale during the blitzkriegs. Blitz was taken from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning lightning war. Blitzkrieg was the British name for the Luftwaffe’s night and day attacks against Britain and the U.K. It was strictly from August 1940 to Mid-May of 1941(Dear 138). The explanation as to why the blitz happened is because it had been the heaviest and most determined attempt so closely but so far to win the war by bombing from the air. The Germans attempted to bomb London into …show more content…
It took twenty-five years before the war of new experiments of warfare. London had always been the exact principal target of the very fine expectations with these new kinds of warfare. They were always never any exceptions (“Blitz WW2 The Battle of London”). UN like his French and Britain adversaries the Fuhrer (Means Hitler) discounted almost entirely the idea of a naval blockade as having any impact on his new empire. He could everything he could need from inside Europe. He humiliated the royal navy that the admirals ways unable to do in the previous war. Hitler simply ignored it and having leaders to their own devices (mossier 192). Nazi leaders shared these exaggerated expectations that terror bombing had been proved effective in Spain. There were fifty