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Second World War
Homefront
- People feared air attacks in densly populated cities
- In January 1938 Air Raid
precautions were planned
- The Auxiliary Fire
service was created
- The Auxiliary Fire
service was created
- In January 1938 Air Raid
precautions were planned
- Jobs
- ARP Wardens
- Distributed 32 million gas masks
- Friday 1st September
two days before the war
they enforced the
blackout
- Over one million men
and women volunteered
to serve
- Reported air raid damage,
warn people of unexploded
bombs and seal off affected
areas
- Provided immediate help at
bomb sites before emergency
services arrives
- Distributed 32 million gas masks
- National Fire Service
- Worked as part of the
Auxiliary Fire service
- consisted of 39
firefighting forces in
1942
- 400000 people joined
during the war
- Used wartime grey fire
engines and wore tin helmets
- There were also fire boats to control
dockside fires and street fires in east
london in 1940
- Worked as part of the
Auxiliary Fire service
- Casualty Service
- 240 000 people volunteered
- Attend accidents and tend to injuries,
sending seriously injured people to first
aid post, and some to casualty clearing
hospitals
- 2379 civil defence workers
killed, 4459 were injured
- Work was crucial in
maintaining morale of home
front
- 240 000 people volunteered
- The Home Guard
- The Local Defence Volunteers were formed in 1940
- 500000 men with Canadian
British and US weapons
- Hastily built defences like
trenches and gun
emplacements
- Expected to fight Germans if invaded
- Many volunteers were over 40
and had no weapons
- Nicknamed Look Die Vanish
- 500000 men with Canadian
British and US weapons
- The Local Defence Volunteers were formed in 1940
- ARP Wardens
- Neville Chamberlin announced Britain
at war with Germany 3 September
1939
- Evacuation
- Large numbers of people evacuated first
years of the war
- 2 million made plans for
evacuation 1.5 million
evacuated by government
- Lots of propaganda and
pictures of happy parents to
make it seem better
- Co-ordinated by Federation of
Women's Instiutes
- They received 1700
complaints from host
families concerning bad
manners bed wetting and
lice
- They received 1700
complaints from host
families concerning bad
manners bed wetting and
lice
- After arriving by trains people would
be taken to reception centres like
churches or village halls and wait to
be chosen by 'host families
- Local people were paired 10
shillings for the first child and 8
shillings for each evacuee
- Local people were paired 10
shillings for the first child and 8
shillings for each evacuee
- Large numbers of people evacuated first
years of the war
- Rationing
- Food rationing
enforced January
1940
- Ministry of Food made recipes to
make food go a long way
- People with jobs in heavy
industry were given more
food
- Home grown food wasn't
rationed
- By 1941 clothes
was rationed
- Encouraged to
Make do and Mend
- Encouraged to
Make do and Mend
- Scrap food was collected
to take to farms
- Milk- 6 glasses.
Eggs -1 per 2
weeks. Meat-
500g Butter-
300g. Sugar- 2
teacups. Oil-1/2
teacup. Tea- 1
teacup. Cheese-
30g. Jam- 1 1/2
teacups.
- Food rationing
enforced January
1940
- Morale
- Censorship Bureau banned al
press photographs of wounded
soldiers, dead air raid victims
or houses destroyed by bombs
- Ministry of Information
produced propaganda and
distributed the news that they
wanted the British public to
hear
- Entertainment was used to keep up
morale films music and dancing was
popular
- Winston Churchill's speeches were broadcast
to encourage people to support to war effort
- Censorship Bureau banned al
press photographs of wounded
soldiers, dead air raid victims
or houses destroyed by bombs
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