In May 1940 Germany was dominating the French in France and so the Allies had to withdraw to the beaches Dunkirk. There was then a huge operation to evacuate the soldiers by the navy and small boats sailed there by volunteers to rescue roughly 350,000 French and English troops. This left only Britain to be defeated for Germany to have defeated and captured the whole of Western Europe. Hitler’s next operation was to invade Britain. Hitler knew that the German Navy was too small to control the English Channel but he believed that with the Luftwaffe he could successfully defeat Britain.
Though the odds and numbers were against the British, it was the unorganized planning and overconfidence that led to the British army to ultimately win the battle against Germany. The invasion of France ended in June 1940; it was not until over a month later that Hitler made the decision to invade Britain, because he was unsuccessful in trying to get the British to surrender. The Battle of Britain was not an immediate, necessary battle to Hitler, but because he wanted and would benefit from air superiority, he put forth the effort to fight it anyway. The small number of British forces fueled overconfidence for Germany and
+ ++ ` +How far was WW1 shocking? World War 1, 1914 lasted 4years, approximately 8538315 million soldiers were killed or died during the war and over a billion mobilized. It was shocking the First World War in history; however there were some aspects in the war that weren’t so shocking. Technology was a new invention, first used at the battle of the Somme. The invention was a success although it was British troops, 20,000 were killed and 40,000 were injured.
Von papen arranged another election hoping to win more support from the reichstag, however, he fell short once more to the Nazis, obtaining an even fewer amount of seats. Von Papen out of desperate nature, asked Hindenburg to close down the Reichstag and rule by decree. Von Schleicer warned Hindenburg that Von papen government would lead to civil war and an increase of violence between Nazis and communists, so Von Schleicer instead, was appointed chancellor. This position didn't last even two months and Von Papen was furious, negotiating with Hitler to allow him position of Chancellor with Papen himself Vice Chancellor. Hindenburg refused a Nazi government once more.
Hitler ended up sending thousands of troops into these countries for the sole purpose of protecting transportation and supply centers. Even though these men and women of the Resistance Movement never won a significant battle, they were instrumental in keeping troops and supplies from the front, helping to defeat the Axis powers. Citizens of nations occupied by Germany that secretly fought the Germans were known as what? The Resistance Movement On July 10, 1943, the Allies invaded Italy for the first time. This opened yet another front for the Axis to fight on.
Labour promised to create a New Jerusalem, a prosperous country where all strive for the better. However, Source A states that “They had disastrously overestimated Britain’s ability to export”, Britain needed to create money for itself after America’s Lend Lease policy which left Britain in debt for over 50 years, Britain was unable to export a sufficient amount of goods to provide itself with enough money to stabilize the economy, the source follows up with “underestimated her need for dollars”. Britain’s way of dealing with debt was to create more debt for itself; John Maynard Keynes went over to the United States in order to ask America for a loan without interest, the loan which was bestowed upon Britain by the United States and Canada was $9.5 billion. One of the reasons Labour was unable to create a New Jerusalem was due to the fact that they were unable to shut down the debt which anchored Britain’s economy, Labour had little funds to initiate its promises and plans, leading to the failure of a New Jerusalem. Another reason that Labour failed to build a New Jerusalem was the fact that they were unable to upkeep their promise of housing.
* Germany first bombed London, and as a result the RAF answered with the first of many night raids on Berlin in August 24th. * People started realizing bombing wasn’t the effective, because many pilots couldn’t find the target due to bad weather or navigation errors; also the accuracy of those that did reach the target was poor. * In November the first raids were to do maximum damage to German towns. * By 1941 the fast Mosquito light bomber and the Lancaster heavy bomber began to enter the service * In 1943 the first RAF shuttle bombing raid took place. * The success of the RAF pushed the war to Germany.
Why did the US promise Stalin that a second front would be open? The motives behind Operation Overlord are more because of political power play between the allied nations rather than opening a decisive military front. The most remarkable aspect of World War II was how America committed itself to the battles occurring in Europe and had not concentrated on Japan, the United States’ main aggressor. It was the Americans who were impatient to confront the German army on the continent while the British were haunted by the deepest misgivings about doing so. ““Why are we doing this?” cried Winston Churchill in a bitter moment of depression about Operation OVERLORD in February 1944, which caused him a spasm of enthusiasm for an alternative Allied landing in Portugal.
This was a very important event in the cold war. There were two major reasons why this blockade was very important. The first reason being that it showed the determination of the USA to stop communism, it showed that they would spare no financial assets or important assets such as planes and pilots to buffer against
Germany went back to unrestricted U-boat attacks in a desperate attempt to win the war, after the blockade of Germany. German naval intelligence believed that this method would result in the loss of 600,000 tons of food and other supplies that were being shipped into Britain per month; this would lead to major food shortages and Britain would be starved into defeat. From the source, I can gather that unrestricted submarine warfare did have a significant impact on British trading, in view of the fact that the subma rine warfare not only affected the men that were on ships and fighting upfront, but the whole of the British nation