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  2. The Blitz - Wikipedia

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    The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, [4] for slightly over 8 months during the Second World War.. The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority between the Luftwaffe ...

  3. The History Behind Blitz - AOL

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    The Blitz, explained The German air force’s bombing of London from Sept. 7, 1940, to May 11, 1941, left about 43,500 people dead and many more homeless. The attack campaign became known as "the ...

  4. United Kingdom home front during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Secret History of the Blitz (2015). Marwick, Arthur. The Home Front: The British and the Second World War. (1976). Overy, Richard. Britain at War: From the Invasion of Poland to the Surrender of Japan: 1939–1945 (2011). Overy, Richard, ed. What Britain Has Done: September 1939 - 1945 a Selection of Outstanding Facts and Figures (2007)

  5. 10 Fun Facts About the Government Shutdown - AOL

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    The U.S. government has now been "shut down" for 12 days straight. It may open for business again five minutes from now. Or it could reopen in five days -- hopefully with a debt ceiling-raise ...

  6. Second Great Fire of London - Wikipedia

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    The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid caused fires over an area greater than that of the Great Fire of London in 1666, [2] leading one American correspondent to say in a cable to his office that "The second Great Fire of London has begun". [3]

  7. World War II Drama Blitz Is Steve McQueen's Most Tender ... - AOL

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    Blitz may be McQueen’s most tender film, though it’s never precious. George is a scrapper, used to taking care of himself. But we also see, in flashbacks, how safe he feels in the care of his ...

  8. Keep Calm and Carry On - Wikipedia

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    Original 1939 poster. Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the Government of the United Kingdom in 1939 in preparation for World War II.The poster was intended to raise the morale of the British public, threatened with widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities.

  9. Belfast Blitz - Wikipedia

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    One widespread criticism was that the Germans located Belfast by heading for Dublin and following the railway lines north. In The Blitz: Belfast in the War Years, Brian Barton wrote: "Government Ministers felt with justification, that the Germans were able to use the unblacked out lights in the south to guide them to their targets in the North ...