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'''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)|''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 '''sports''':
*[[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
*Blitz, a two-hand technique in [[semicontact]] fighting sports
*[[London Blitz (American football)]], a London-based American football team
*[[Utah Blitzz]], former professional soccer team
*[[The Blitz (television)]], a TV show on ESPNEWS
*[[Blitz (Beanie Baby)]], a [[American football|football-themed]] [[Beanie Baby]] [[teddy bear|bear]] produced by [[Ty, Inc.]]
*Blitz - The name of the ultraviolent sport in the game [[Deathrow]] for the Xbox
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 Ellsworth|Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth]] of U.S. thrash metal band [[Overkill (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
Related to '''business''':
*[[Blitz Soft]], a Romanian software company
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