Mini test start of 2025

Question 1

What was the percentage of people who used Anderson Shelters during bombing raids?

Answer 1

27%

Question 2

What other type (than Anderson) of shelter was popular during WW2 and came as a flat pack?

Answer 2

Morrison Shelter

Question 3

What does the term censorship mean?

Answer 3

Government stopping the publication of material

Question 4

What is the name of the German bombing campaign of the UK 1940-41?

Answer 4

The Blitz

Question 5

What was the name of the evacuation programme at the beginning of WW2?

Answer 5

Operation Pied Piper

Question 6

When was the ‘Phoney War’?

Answer 6

Sept 1939-May 1940

Question 7

What is a primary source ?

Answer 7

A first hand account or evidence from a period of time of a certain event. For example a diary from an evacuee of operation pied piper or a photo from a newspaper at the time of operation pied piper.

Question 8

What is a secondary source ?

Answer 8

Second hand information that analyses or summarises a primary scource