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ROLE BRITAIN IN WW2 ORIGINS + OUTCOMES (B PREPARATION (evacuation children…
ROLE BRITAIN IN WW2 ORIGINS + OUTCOMES
INTRO
G angry Allies -> treaty of Versailles + wanted land
B -< letter to G if don't stop (land) -> war
3 Sept 1939 The Prime Minister of Britain (Neville Chamberlain) declares war on Germany
10 may 1940 = Winston churchill
DUNKRIK
G fanning Fr land
Fr + B beaten back -> dunkirk
escape by channel -> operation dynamno
B PREPARATION
evacuation children
"dad's army"
weapons hide by buches
only equipped army -> canadian
barbed wire + tanks
G overconfident -> Stalin= "In the defeat of nazisme, B gave time, USA gave money + R gave blood"
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
G targets -> air field + planes
convoys
B DEFENCE
B moral went down + pessimism -> G thought wasn't working -> changed tactics
G bombers = fuel only 30 min -> not many bombs
3 sept 1940 - The "Blitz" -> new hope for B
-> industrial areas attacked
B picked up G info -> radio
B retained air forced day / G night
B hiding underground at night
PERSPECTIVE ROLE OF B
British fighters appeared in large numbers and shot down many of the Germans
-> Hitler permanently postponed a landing on the British Isles and suspended the Battle of Britain
8 may 1945 -> allies surrounded G + won
participate D-Day -> saved Fr
8 May 1945 - Winston Churchill announces VE Day - Victory in Europe -> British people wave flags, sing and dance in the streets -> WW2 ends in Europe