The Home Front

1941 Committee	Crime and Punishment	Peace Pledge Union
Air Raid Precautions	Desertion in the Armed Forces	Plan for Britain
Air Raid Shelters	Dig for Victory	Postscripts
Air Raid Sirens	Emergency Powers Act	Radar Stations
Air Raid Wardens	Evacuation	Rationing
Anderson Shelters	Fifth Column	Refugees
Auxiliary Territorial Service	Firewatching	Right Club
Children's Education	Gas Masks	Transport
Barrage Balloons	Germans in Britain	Secret Agents
BBC	Home Guard	Underground Stations
Beveridge Report	Italians in Britain	V.E. Day
Black Market	Juvenile Delinquency	V1 Flying Bomb
Blackout	Letters to Peace Lovers	V2 Rocket
Blitz	The Link	War Economy
Bomb Disposal Units	Military Intelligence (MI5)	Women's Auxiliary Air Force
British Union of Fascists (BUF)	Morrison Shelters	Women's Land Army
Compulsory Billeting	National Fire Service	Royal Naval Service
Conscription	Nordic League	Transport Service
Conscientious Objectors	Overseas Reception Board	Women's War Work

Our Longest Days

The People's War

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