1. The front cover

2. The contents page

3. What caused ww2?

4. Being evacuated

5. Evacuation pictures

6. Evacuation pictures

7. When and what was the phoney war?

8. What was the Blitz?

9. Which cities were involved?

10. How did people in the cities protect themselves?

11. What was rationing during ww2?

12. Who organised rationing?

13. Make-do and mend poster

14. Black out poster

After ww1 the countries of the world decided that the Germans caused ww1 so they had to sign a treaty saying that they couldn’t start a war, they had to give back land to there rightful owners they must give compensation to countries that they had destroyed and that they couldn't use the Rhineland to build big armies or to make weapons.

After that a man called Adolph Hitler become chancellor and broke all the rules and started building a big army on the Rhineland other countries didn't bother and let them get on with it but soon after the Germans started taking over countries and he sent soldiers into Britain .Britain's leader said if they did not remove their soldiers Britain will be at war with Germany. Hitler refused to remove his army so they started a war.WW2 began.

ADOLPH HITTLER

NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN

These were the leaders of Germany and Britain in 1939.

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Families complained that they did not want there children there when the Germans dropped bombs. The Government decided that they would evacuate the children to the countries and so they did . Children went to school and stood in rows in the yard then teachers lead them to train carriages. Children had a over shoulder bag that contained a gas mask. They also had a paper bag with some clothes and some sandwich .their would be a very long travel.

Children would stand for hours waiting to get picket by a family. Rich children always got chosen first unlike the poor children they got picket last. Some family's treat the children really bad. Some children had baths once or twice a week but some only had a bath once every two weeks.

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1. When and what was the Phoney

War?The war lasted from September 1939 to April 1940.The first 6 months of the war became known as the

Phoney war because there were no bombs or fighting. This gave the government time to protect

Britain from an attack.

2. In September 1940 British cities suffered the Blitz what was the Blitz?The heavy frequent bombing attacks on London and other cities were known as the Blitz. Night after night, from September 1940 until May 1941, German bombers attacked British cities, ports and industrial areas. London was bombed every day and every night, bar one, for 11 weeks. One third of London was destroyed.

London and other cities where involved such as Swansea, Cardiff, Bristol, South Hampton, Plymouth, Birmingham, Coventry and Liverpool.

3. Which cities where involved?

4. How did people in the cities protect themselves?Children where evacuated. There were public shelters in most towns but many people built them in there gardens so that they had protection if they couldn’t get to a public shelter. Shelters were very strong.

There were loads of shortages of essential foodstuffs not just luxuries. Ration books where issued to each person over five years old containing tokens which could be saved up or used at the owner’s discretion. The shopkeeper would remove the tokens before he issued to adults and school age children.

To make the British weak, the Germans tried to cut of supplies of food and other goods. German submarines attack many of the ships that brought food to Britain.

This is a poster about something called Make-do and mend. People had to make-do with the clothes that they had. If they were torn or had a hole had to go to the shop with your ration book and buy some material to mend it themselves.The design of this poster was meant to make you do with what you had.

This poster is meant to try and get you to eat carrots so you can see better in the blackout.

The mother and daughter in this poster are sneaking carrots into there house so they can eat them and see better in the dark.

The story of the Battle of Dunkirk is one of heroic courage amidst untold tragedy. In the year 1940, at a time when World War II was in full rage, Hitler's army was winning against France, despite help from more than 300,000 troops sent by Britain to help them out. The German army had surrounded and trapped most of the allied forces in the northernmost corner of France. Despite severe causalities the British troops could not retreat as their escape routes were all blocked.The person in charge of troop evacuation, Vice Admiral Bertram Ramsay, who was stationed in the reinforced tunnels, which lay beneath Dover Castle organized a rescue operation called Operation Dynamo. However, the operation was riddled with innumerable major problems. The troops had to be rescued within a week as the beaches they were crammed on were being mercilessly shelled. An exodus by sea was impossible because of the difficulty in navigating the seas that were full of sunken ships and also because of the constant threat by U-boats. Nearer the beach the water was too shallow for the transport ships and destroyers to get close to the shore. What's more the British troops did not have enough vessels to transport the huge numbers of soldiers that were trapped on the beach.

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Despite all the setbacks, meticulous preparations were made and Operation Dynamo was mobilized. Unfortunately they managed to rescue less than 8,000 troops, at which rate rescuing all the troops who were trapped would take about 40 days.In desperation Ramsay made a public call for help and asked anyone who owned any kind of boat to assist in rescuing the troops. He got an overwhelming and instantaneous reaction and managed to organize a temporary flotilla comprising 850 "Little Ships" which was made up of lifeboats, yachts and fishing boats. Civilians joined British sailors in manning the boats across the 35 km crossing and a massive rescue mission was launched, evacuating almost 2,000 troops per hours. Nine days later 338,226 trapped people had been rescued.Churchill referred to this story of heroism and courage as the 'miracle of deliverance'. This 'Dunkirk spirit' as it is often referred to quickly became a popular legend.

Britain was blacked out on 1st September 1939, two days before the outbreak of war.

During the war, everyone had to cover their windows and doors at night (before sunset) with heavy blackout curtains, cardboard or paint.

They needed to prevent any glimmer of light from escaping and aiding enemy aircraft during their bombing raids.

Street lights were switched off or dimmed and shielded to deflect their light downward. Traffic lights and vehicle headlights were fitted with slotted covers to deflect their beam down to the floor.

Thousands of people died in road accidents. The number of road accidents increased

because of the lack of street lighting and the dimmed traffic lights. To help prevent accidents white stripes were painted on the roads and on lamp-posts. People were encouraged to walk facing the traffic and men were advised to leave their shirt-tails hanging out so that they could

be seen by cars with dimmed headlights.Other people were injured during the Blackout because they could not see in the darkness. Many people were injured tripping up, falling down steps,

or bumping into things.

D-ay was when British, American and Canadian troops tried to push the Germans out of France and back into Germany. The British troops prepared by gathering weapons and equipment and other things that they might of needed. Britain named the beaches and different soldiers went to different parts. The different beaches were Utah, Omaha, gold, Juno and sword. Britain was meant to invade the Germans on the 5th of June but because of the terrible weather they had to delay it to the next day the 6th of June.

The day of victory was the 7th of June at midnight. Britain, America and Canadian troops were involved . Many troops were either killed or very badly hurt. Over 30,000 troops went off to fight for operation D-day. When the men got to shore a metal flap would come down to let the men out and to let the equipment out. There were five different beaches. They were Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. Thousands of men were dropped by parachutes. They were dropped behind the German troops so they could trap them. In the end the Britain, American and Canadian troops pushed the Germans out of France.

Britain started to win the war.The beaches!

As time went by the British, American, and Canadian troops were pushing the Germans out of France and further into Germany. Once they had captured the Germans they put them into camps but they fed them and looked after them. The camps were called Prisoner of war camps. Once they had liberated France the British, American and Canadian troops put the German troops back into Germany. After they had set them free the British