| Chronology of the Home Front | |
|---|---|
| Chronology of the Home Front | Date |
| Parliament passes the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act. | 24th August, 1938 |
| Gas Masks are issued to civilians in Britain. | 26th September, 1938 |
| Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler sign the Munich Agreement. | 29th September, 1938 |
| Duff Cooper resigns from the Cabinet in protest against the Munich Agreement. | 1st October, 1938 |
| Britain establishes a national register for war service. | 1st December, 1938 |
| Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany. | 3rd September, 1939 |
| Parliament passes the National Services (Armed Forces) Act. | 3rd September, 1939 |
| Neville Chamberlain appoints Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty. | 3rd September, 1939 |
| Neville Chamberlain appoints Lord Beaverbrook as minister of aircraft production. | 3rd April, 1940 |
| Neville Chamberlain resigns as prime minister and is replaced by Winston Churchill. | 10th May, 1940 |
| Anthony Eden announces the formation of the Home Guard. | 14th May, 1940 |
| Parliament grants Winston Churchill and his government wide emergency powers. | 22nd May, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Stafford Cripps as British ambassador to the Soviet Union. | 30th May, 1940 |
| The last of the 338,000 British, French and Belgian forces evacuated from Dunkirk. | 4th June, 1940 |
| J. B. Priestley gives first BBC radio broadcast. | 5th June, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe launch the start of the Battle of Britain. | 10th July, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill invites Hugh Dalton to establish the Special Operations Executive. | 16th July, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe began attacking RAF Fighter Command's aircraft and airfields. | 13th August, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe carry out a all-night bombing raid on London and begins the Blitz. | 23rd August, 1940 |
| City of Bernares sunk by a German torpedo killing 73 children on the way to Canada. | 17th September, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Kingsley Wood as Chancellor of the Exchequer. | 3rd October, 1940 |
| Winston Churchill appoints Ernest Bevin as Minister of Labour. | 3rd October, 1940 |
| Adolf Hitler postpones Operation Sealion, the proposed invasion of Britain. | 12th October, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe bomb Coventry killing 380 people and injuring 865. | 14th November, 1940 |
| Airbourbe radar successfully used by the Royal Air Force for the first time. | 18th November, 1940 |
| The Luftwaffe destroy the House of Commons in Westminster. | 10th May, 1941 |
| Frank Whittle's jet-propelled Gloster E28 takes its first flight. | 15th May, 1941 |
| The British government introduces plans to ration clothes and furniture. | 1st June, 1941 |
| Richard Acland launches the Common Wealth Party. | 26th July, 1941 |
| The National Service Act, that conscripted unmarried women, was passed by Parliament. | 18th December, 1941 |
| The Luftwaffe start bombing Exeter, Bath and other historic cities in Britain. | 23rd April, 1942 |
| The Luftwaffe renews its air attacks on London. | 18th January, 1943 |
| A German aircraft bombs Whitehall Cinema in East Grinstead and kills 235 people. | 9th July, 1943 |
| First V1 Flying bomb lands on Britain. | 13th June, 1944 |
| V1 Flying bomb brought down by a Gloster Meteor, Britain's first jet-fighter. | 4th August, 1944 |
| First V2 Rocket lands on Britain. | 8th September, 1944 |
| Last V2 Rocket lands on Britain. | 27th March, 1945 |
