Blitz

Blitz, German for "lightning" or very fast (!), may refer to:

• Blitzkrieg, the "very fast executed war", a strategy of WWII Germany
• The Blitz, the German aerial attacks on Britain in WWII
• Baedeker Blitz, the reprisal bombing of strategically unimportant but picturesque British cities
• Belfast Bomb Blitz better known as Bloody Friday. The Provisional IRA sets off 22 bombs in Belfast killing 9 people
• Blitz chess, a chess game allowing only 5 minutes for each player
• Blitz Games, British computer games company
• Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language
• Blitz (game), a card game
• Blitz (Computer Game), a bombing game for the Commodore PET
• Blitz, the alter-ego of the character George in the web comic Bob and George
• BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
• The Weekly Blitz, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper edited by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
• Blitz (newspaper), a Portuguese music newspaper
• Blitz, a 1980s night club in London, see Blitz Kids
• Blitz, the codename of GDR spy Hüseyin Yıldırım
• Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon Road Rovers
• Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway. They are often compared to the UK anarchists from the seventies
• London Blitz (computer game), a 1983 strategy game for the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64
• Blitz (magazine), a weekly "what's on" magazine published by Arc @ UNSW at the University of New South Wales
• Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing

In sport:

• Blitz (American football), a defensive maneuver in American football
• Blitz (NFL Mascot), the mascot of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks
• NFL Blitz, an American football game series developed by Midway Games
• Blitz: The League, a later American football game series developed by Midway Games after the National Football League signed an exclusive licensing deal with Electronic Arts
• London Blitz (American football), a London-based American football team
• The Blitz (television), a TV show on ESPNEWS

In music:

• Blitz! (musical), a musical by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
• Blitz (band), a British punk rock band
• Blitz (Brazilian band), a new wave Brazilian band from the eighties
• Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth of U.S. thrash metal band Overkill
• Julien Paul Blitz (1885–1951), a Belgian-American conductor
• WBZX, 99.7 "The Blitz", common call term used for the Columbus, OH radio station WBZX

Relating to vehicles:

• Opel Blitz, a German light truck built from 1930 to 1973
• Bedford Blitz, a truck manufactured by Bedford Vehicles
• Blitz, nickname for both Ford and Chevrolet Canadian Military Pattern trucks made for use in WW2