Question: Why were Londoners forced to sleep in shelters?
Answer: attacks by night

Question: What kind of sentiment did the government fear would developed in large group shelters? 
Answer: anti-war

Question: Who did the government see as a leading advocate for building deep shelters?
Answer: the Communist Party's

Question: What was the name of the Pact of August 1939?
Answer: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

Question: Why did the government refuse to allow the London Underground stations to be used as shelters?
Answer: interfere with commuter and troop travel

Question: Underground officials were ordered to lock the stations during raids but opened how long after the orders?
Answer: by the second week

Question: In 1940 how many people were sleeping in the Underground stations?
Answer: 150,000 a night

Question: Muffling the sound of batter made what easier in the Underground Stations?
Answer: sleep

Question: Why were many killed in Underground Stations?
Answer: direct hits

Question: What was the largest number to use Underground shelters in September  27, 1940?
Answer: 177,000

Question: In 1940 what percentage used the Tube for a sleeping shelter?
Answer: 4%

Question: Where did 60% of populations stay?
Answer: at home

Question: What year did the government start giving out Morrison shelters?
Answer: 1941

Question: Where could the Morrison shelters be used?
Answer: inside homes

Question: What year did the government start to build new deep shelters?
Answer: 1940

Question: How many people were the new shelters going to hold?
Answer: 80,000

Question: What helped cut down time standing in the queue for shelters?
Answer: Tickets

Question: Which two groups help improve life in the shelters?
Answer: British Red Cross and the Salvation Army

Question: What kind of trains provided food in the shelters?
Answer: canteen

Question: What witness wrote that these people are staunch to the bone and won't quit?
Answer: American

Question: With the intense bomb what did not happen as great as prewar predictions expected?
Answer: psychiatric crisis

Question: People called the raids very blitzy like they were talking about what?
Answer: weather

Question: Anne Freud and Edward Glover said London civilians did not suffer from what?
Answer: widespread shell shock

Question: Why did the psychiatric clinics close?
Answer: lack of need

Question: What two things declined during the attacks in Britain?
Answer: suicides and drunkenness

Question: The entire country was being attack and Glover believe it help people to do what?
Answer: accept and deal

Question: What drink was never rationed?
Answer: beer

Question: How many people attended cricket at Lord's?
Answer: 13,000

Question: What percent of Briton's expected to lose the war?
Answer: 3%

Question: What was Churchill's highest rating? 
Answer: 89%

Question: What were Spitfire Funds used for?
Answer: to build fighters

Question: What is ARP?
Answer: Air Raid Precautions

Question: The Auxiliary Fire Service had how many members in July of 1939?
Answer: 138,000

Question: Who was given the name Blitz Scouts?
Answer: Scout Association

Question: The Royal Army Pay Corps and what other group were in charge of salvage and clean-up?
Answer: Pioneer Corps

Question: What group did Samuel Hoare set up in 1938?
Answer: Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence

Question: Who was Home Secretary in 1938?
Answer: Samuel Hoare

Question: How many members did the WVS have at the end of 1941?
Answer: one million

Question: How many gas mask were issued before the war?
Answer: 50 million

Question: Who was the Air Officer Commanding Fighter Command after 1940?
Answer: Hugh Dowding

Question: What credit did Dowding receive?
Answer: defence of British air space

Question: What strategy could the German's have used instead of day raids?
Answer: bombing at night

Question: Why were civic and political leaders worried about Dowdings?
Answer: lack of reaction to the new crisis

Question: Who was reluctant to act quickly when urgent changes need to be made?
Answer: Dowding

Question: Who thought Dowding was stubborn and didn't like to cooperate?
Answer: Air Staff

Question: What did the Air Ministry plan to do with his failures?
Answer: attack him and his abilities

Question: The Air Ministry was critical of Dowding after which battle?
Answer: Battle of Britain Day

Question: Who was summoned to the Air Ministry conference on October 17, 1940?
Answer: Dowding

Question: Lord Beaverbrook and Churchill's support of Dowding was what?
Answer: waning

Question: Neglect of the RAF until 1938 caused what to happen?
Answer: sparse resources to build defences

Question: The Air Ministry and which other group decided to not make night defense a top priority?
Answer: Chamberlain Government

Question: People over the age of 35 reacted to the bombings with what?
Answer: great trepidation

Question: Why had German raids decreased between 1916-1918?
Answer: countermeasures

Question: How many people were killed by bomb drops during the first World War?
Answer: 1,413

Question: How many bombs had been dropped?
Answer: 9,000

Question: What did the RAF put most of their resources into?
Answer: daylight fighter defences

Question: RAF bombers had trouble flying at night, so the British believe the Germans would do what?
Answer: suffer the same problems

Question: What did the Air Force believe they could avoid if they carried out effective day missions?
Answer: night missions and their disadvantages

Question: Britain believe German bombers would be unable to reach and identify what?
Answer: targets

Question: What did the British offence become know as?
Answer: cult of the offensive

Question: Why was the tactic of bombing German aircraft bases, factories and fuel reserves impractical?
Answer: lacked the technology and equipment

Question: Until 1940 what type of aircraft did the RAF lacked?
Answer: specialist night-fighting

Question: What was wrong with the anti aircraft units?
Answer: poorly equipped and lacking in numbers

Question: What did the Lorenz beam allow aircraft to do?
Answer: land at night or in bad weather

Question: The Germans developed the Lorenz into what system?
Answer: Knickebein

Question: The Knickebein was the same as the Lorenz but used how many beams?
Answer: two Lorenz beams

Question: The Germans flew along one beam until they picked up the second beam the sound telling them when to start doing what?
Answer: dropping their bombs

Question: While Knickebein was used my most German crews who used the X-Gerat system?
Answer: specially trained pathfinder crews

Question: What frequency did the X-Gerat system use?
Answer: 66–77 MHz

Question: What rate per minute did ground transmitters send?
Answer: 180

Question: When the bomber crossed the first beam the bomber-aimer did what?
Answer: start the bombing-clock

Question: What mechanism cause the bombs to be released?
Answer: clock's timing

Question: Which system was the most complex of the three?
Answer: Y-Gerät

Question: Who operated the automatic beam system?
Answer: the bomber's autopilot

Question: What kind of checks help to keep the plane on course?
Answer: Direction-finding

Question: The crew could be order to drop the bomb by what?
Answer: a code word

Question: Who issued the code word to the bombers?
Answer: ground controller

Question: The beam was traced to what town?
Answer: Derby

Question: The Bean Approach Training Development Unit were fitted with what kind of transmitter to search for the Knickebein? 
Answer: 30 MHz receiver

Question: In 1940 a German prisoner overheard boasting that the British would never find what system?
Answer: Knickebein

Question: Which RAF technical advisor was the conversation passed onto?
Answer: Dr. R. V. Jones

Question: The first jamming operation was carried out using what machines?
Answer: electrocautery machines

Question: The German beacons used what frequency band?
Answer: medium