History GCSE
Air-raid precautions
What Air-raid precautions means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Air-raid precautions
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Measures taken to protect Londoners during the Blitz, including the use of underground stations and community-organised spaces such as 'Mickey's shelter' in Stepney.
Topics that use Air-raid precautions
- Option 12: The historic environment - 1 London and the Second World War, 1939–45 (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Anderson shelters
- Civilian morale
- evacuation
- gas masks
- Leadership and morale
- port and industrial centre
- Wartime agriculture
- Wartime disruption
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