Battle Of Britain
Germany knew that if they were to make an assault across the English channel, they would need to first win a battle in the air.
Luftwaffe begins bombing aircraft Factories, hangers runways, radar, convoys, with the strategy of knocking out the Royal Airforce's ability to manufacture and repair planes.
Britain survives only by days.
After the (accidental) bombing of London, Britain retaliated by bombing Berlin. After that, Hitler bombed London for 76 nights straight. This focus on civilian targets allowed the RAF to recover.
Britain sign the lend lease act with the United States, which allowed Britain to have American industrial support.
Luftwaffe begins bombing aircraft Factories, hangers runways, radar, convoys, with the strategy of knocking out the Royal Airforce's ability to manufacture and repair planes.
Britain survives only by days.
After the (accidental) bombing of London, Britain retaliated by bombing Berlin. After that, Hitler bombed London for 76 nights straight. This focus on civilian targets allowed the RAF to recover.
Britain sign the lend lease act with the United States, which allowed Britain to have American industrial support.
Subjunctive Question: What if Germany had won the battle of Britain? Would this have prompted the United States to join the war earlier?
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"Their Finest Hour"
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their Finest Hour.'
--Winston Churchill House of Commons, 18 June 1940, following the collapse of France. Many thought Britainwould follow.
What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their Finest Hour.'
--Winston Churchill House of Commons, 18 June 1940, following the collapse of France. Many thought Britainwould follow.