Strategic bombing during World War II

World War II began September 1, 1939, the day after Germany invaded neutral Poland. Great Britain and France declared war on Germany the two days after the invasion. Throughout the war the bombing of major cities was practiced by both the allies and axis powers. The British and Americans came up with a more accurate and effective bombing tactics. This tactic is called “strategic bombing”. Strategic bombing was sustained aerial attack on railways, harbours, cities, workers' housing, and industrial

Allied strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War was, in the main, significant. The key themes to be looked at in this essay are the effects that Allied Strategic Bombing had on the dislocation and demoralisation of German civilians; Germany’s economic ability to produce and transport goods for the war effort; other key aspects of the war and the German war effort and, finally, its impact on the USSR. The evidence of the effectiveness of Allied Strategic Bombing of Germany strongly

developments that assisted bombing, the impact of bombing on the German economy, the impact of bombing on the German civilian morale and also the effects on the German war effort all help explain why the Allied strategic bombing of Germany during the Second World War was significant to quite a far extent. Each of the following paragraphs will analyse the impacts of the Allied strategic bombing on different aspects of Germany and also what factors assisted the Allied bombing campaign in creating a significant

the Allies strategic bombing campaign. While the military impact of the campaign is ultimately the most important factor, political, economic and social impacts also play key roles. The essay will review the political situation throughout the campaign. The military impact of the bombing is then analysed followed by the economic and social costs. The essay will evaluate the bombing campaign’s contribution to the overall war effort. The political significance for the Allies’ of the bombing campaign

things. This is what source 2 tells us when it says, “everyone seems intent only on patching roofs [and] propping up walls”, suggesting that the civilians would slave away all day repairing housing just for them to be destroyed again by the next bombing raid. Source 3 also says much the same thing as when it says, “Little children collected wood from the ruins for cooking”, it seems to imply endless amounts of rubble. Along with sources 2 and 3 we also can see in sources 1 and 4 that houses were

In this essay I will assess the significance of strategic bombing of Germany. I will do this by evaluating four key areas of the German war effort. This will include German and British moral, German economy, its effect on the outcome of the Eastern Front and the results of the preparation for D-Day. Overall allied bombing did not have a significant impact on the outcome of the war as for the majority of the war bombing techniques and technology were primitive and so had little effect. It only became

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