Question: How many tons of bombs had to be dropped to be considered a major attack?
Answer: more than 100 tons of bombs dropped

Question: December saw how many attacks?
Answer: only 11 major and five heavy attacks

Question: On what day was London itself attacked?
Answer: the evening of 29 December

Question: What group was the first to use incendiaries?
Answer: Kampfgruppe 100

Question: How many fire bombs were dropped per minute?
Answer: 300

Question: How many civilians were killed in the bombing?
Answer: 28,556 killed

Question: The Luftwaffe dropped how many short tons of bombs?
Answer: 18,291 short tons

Question: Why were port cities targeted by the Luftwaffe?
Answer: to try to disrupt trade and sea communications

Question: How many times was Swansea bombed heavily?
Answer: four times

Question: What was primarily damaged in the attacks?
Answer: commercial and domestic areas

Question: What cities had large sections of them destroyed?
Answer: Portsmouth Southsea and Gosport

Question: What was left mostly unharmed?
Answer: the docks

Question: What was the primary goal of the German air doctrine?
Answer: target civilian morale

Question: In November and December of 1940 what changed to make attacks on civilians a moot point?
Answer: large-scale raids

Question: What had nearly been considered indiscriminate bombing?
Answer: use of mines and incendiaries, for tactical expediency

Question: Lighting targets hidden by haze had to be done without what?
Answer: regard for the civilian population

Question: What was the group that used incendiaries and high explosives to mark targets?
Answer: Beleuchtergruppe

Question: The Feuerleitung (Blaze Control) tactic led to what creation for marking targets?
Answer: Brandbombenfelder (Incendiary Fields)

Question: What was the nickname of bombs used in streets and residential areas?
Answer: "Satan"

Question: What was the weight of the "Max" bomb?
Answer: 2,500 kg (5,512 lb)

Question: Decision changes at organizational levels led to what type of attacks?
Answer: unrestricted area attack or Terrorangriff (Terror Attack)

Question: What was one of the reasons for unrestricted area attacks?
Answer: inaccuracy of navigation

Question: How was it known that precision bombing was changed to area attacks?
Answer: tactical methods and weapons dropped

Question: What percentage of incendiaries were used in December?
Answer: 92 percent

Question: How was it determined that homes of industrial workers were targeted?
Answer: Captured German air crews

Question: What did Erich Raeder believe the Luftwaffe needed to do?
Answer: support the German submarine force

Question: Raeder convinced Hitler to do what?
Answer: attack British port facilities.

Question: What ultimately convinced Hitler that Raeder was right?
Answer: the high success rates of the U-Boat force

Question: Submarines and naval aircraft damaged what primarily?
Answer: British war economy

Question: What became the new targets for the Kriegsmarine?
Answer: British coastal centres and shipping at sea west of Ireland

Question: What was Hitler's Directive 23?
Answer: Directions for operations against the British War Economy

Question: What was a top priority of Directive 23?
Answer: aerial interdiction of British imports by sea

Question: What prevented the targeting of sea communications before?
Answer: Operation Eagle Attack and the following Battle of Britain

Question: What was considered more important than the interdiction of sea communications?
Answer: bombing land-based aircraft industries

Question: What was the concession Goring made with the strategic bombing against Britain?
Answer: Directive 23

Question: What did Goring believe the Kriegsmarine would gain with further support?
Answer: control of more Luftwaffe units

Question: Who was Raeder's successor? 
Answer: Karl Dönitz

Question: What was detrimental to the success of a strategic effect against Britain?
Answer: Göring's lack of cooperation

Question: How did Goring expect to regain prestige?
Answer: by subduing Britain by air power alone

Question: What was the first consideration for the OKL to support Directive 23?
Answer: difficulty in estimating the impact of bombing upon war production

Question: What was the second consideration?
Answer: the conclusion British morale was unlikely to break

Question: What did the OKL insist on maintaining?
Answer: pressure, or diverting strength, onto industries

Question: When would other targets be considered available?
Answer: if the primary ones could not be attacked because of weather conditions

Question: What was inflicting heavy losses and increasing the air war designed to do?
Answer: create the impression an amphibious assault on Britain was planned for 1941

Question: What was preventing escalation of air operations?
Answer: meteorological conditions over Britain

Question: What happened to airfields?
Answer: Airfields became water-logged

Question: How many bomber groups were relocated to Germany?
Answer: 18

Question: How many sorties were flown in March 1941?
Answer: 4,000

Question: When did the Luftwaffe fly inland missions?
Answer: only on moonlit nights

Question: Why were ports better targets?
Answer: Ports were easier to find

Question: How did the Germans confuse the British?
Answer: radio silence was observed until the bombs fell

Question: Why was the X-Gerat frequencies used more?
Answer: British selective jamming was degrading the effectiveness of Y-Gerät

Question: What was focused in March?
Answer: western ports

Question: What did these attacks accomplish?
Answer: breaks in morale

Question: Why was the OKL forced to improvise?
Answer: shortage of bombers

Question: How many Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers and Jabos were used?
Answer: 50

Question: How many German bombs hit their target?
Answer: only one-third

Question: How many sorties a night were crews asked to fly?
Answer: two or three sorties

Question: What contributed to the exhaustion of crews flying extra sorties?
Answer: Bombers were noisy, cold, and vibrated badly

Question: What happened to Peter Stahl when he fell asleep flying?
Answer: woke up to discover the entire crew asleep.

Question: What did Peter's crew take to complete their mission?
Answer: oxygen and Dextro-Energen tablets

Question: What did the British fear most?
Answer: intensification of submarine and air attack

Question: What was an important destination for supply convoys from North America?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: The Liverpool Blitz sank how much shipping?
Answer: 39,126 long tons (39,754 t) of shipping

Question: How many ships were destroyed on May 8, 1941?
Answer: 57 ships

Question: How much of the overseas trade did the Port of London take on?
Answer: one-third of overseas trade

Question: How many houses were spared damage in Glasgow?
Answer: seven

Question: How many people per week were losing housing?
Answer: 40,000 people

Question: Why was Plymouth targeted the most?
Answer: because of its vulnerable position on the south coast

Question: What did the Germans use along with incendiaries and bombs?
Answer: aerial mines

Question: How many AAA shells were fired?
Answer: Over 2,000

Question: What were two large ports on the English east coast in the North?
Answer: Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sunderland

Question: Sunderland saw how many incendiaries used against it on 25 April?
Answer: 9,000 incendiaries

Question: How many bombers were used in a five-hour attack?
Answer: 120

Question: What was the result of the German attacks?
Answer: the Germans failed to prevent maritime movements or cripple industry in the regions

Question: When was the last major attack London saw?
Answer: 10/11 May 1941

Question: How many tonnes of bombs did the Luftwaffe use on London?
Answer: 800 tonnes

Question: How many casualties were inflicted?
Answer: 1,436 people were killed and 1,792 seriously injured