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OPERATION SEA LION AND THE BEGINNING OF THE AIR
- Hitler’s plan to invade Great Britain
- Needed control of the air before this would be possible
- Luftwaffe begins bombing aircraft factories, hangars, runways, radar, convoys
- British come within days of not being able to sustain a defence
- Hitler had promised this would never happen in Germany
- He changes strategy and bombs London for 76 nights straight
- Allows the RAF to recover
- Led by Winston Churchill
- St. Paul’s Cathedral a sign of the resistance
- Americans begin the lend lease policy in 1941
- Elected as British Prime Minister after the Fall of France
- Famous for his speeches during WWII
- Perhaps the best historian of the 20th century
- Knighted
Summary
Hitler began to destroy (bomb) hangers and factories which planes and machines were made. Once Berlin was bombed, Hitler changed the Luftwaffe's tactics to bomb major cities. Churchill would talk on the radio to give people hope for the war.
Quote
"Germany will either be a world power or will not be at all." - Hitler
subjunctive question
Could have President Churchill been more of an influence on the war then he was?