Great Britain during the Second World War

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Since 1933, the UK and France were not weren't ready economically and financially to wage war against Germany. In 1933, its leader Adolf Hitler, seized power lawfully, and wanted to take revenge after the humiliation of the Versailles Treaty. Indeed, after WWII, France, the UK and the USA decided to impose hard clauses on Germany as some territories were occupied, military service was given up, and there seemed to be an impossibility of having an army. The Sudeten territory was also separated from the country. In fact, Hitler wanted to expand his territory that was called the "vital space", and then set up a dictatorship regime. He also had the ambition of seizing a part of Czechoslovakia. Therefore, the countries adopted an isolationist position and decided to react against Hitler's provocations and offensive actions. In fact, he restored the military service in 1935 and also succeeded in militarizing Rhineland. As WWI was very difficult to win, Germany became quite a powerful country.

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[...] Conclusion De Gaulle, on June 18th 1940, asked all French inhabitants to follow him and to go on fighting Nazi Germany, even if the armistice was signed. He was as determined as Churchill win the victory”. After Pearl Harbour incident, the USA declared war on Germany. Thanks to them, the Allies entertained hopes of winning. Indicative bibliography - History: World War 2 (2007) - Winston Churchill in politics: 1900-1939: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, World War II, Oldham (UK Parliament constituency), Conservative Party de Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, et Susan F. [...]

[...] It would have been more powerful and Great Britain could have helped it to control power'. Great Britain seemed to be the only company able to resist to Germany, even if the French government didn't believe they could succeed in. II- Britain became the only country in Europe able to fight and to compete with the Germans The Battle of Britain On September 1940, Hitler started to bomb the UK cities. The Blitz took place during the summer and autumn of 1940. [...]

[...] The Battle of Britain was the first campaign led by air forces and the most important bombing one. Hitler firstly bombed shipping convoys, as Portsmouth, and the RAF infrastructures and finally areas of political importance. The RAF lost 377 fighters and 212 were damaged. What's more, there were lost of problems to replace pilots because they weren't too numerous. Yet, Germany didn't succeed in making the UK negotiate an armistice: this was a failure for Nazi Germany. It was the major one and therefore an important change in the war. [...]

[...] Indeed, as France was divided into a German occupation zone, in the northern and western parts, and an unoccupied zone, called “zone libre” in the south. As DE Gaulle couldn't stand to obey to Vichy authority, he left the country, to go to London in order to organize the French Resistance from London, with Britain support. Thanks to Jean Moulin, who went to London in 1940, the UK resistance movements bound with French ones and could accomplish together actions. Churchill, the leader of a nation at war Churchill became the prime Minister of a coalition government on May 10th 1940. [...]

[...] The Sudeten territory was also separated from the country. In fact, he wanted to expend his territory, called “vital space”, and then set up a dictatorship and had the ambition of taking a part of Czechoslovakia. Therefore, they adopted an isolationist position and decided to react against Hitler's provocations and offensive actions. In fact, he restored the military service in 1935 and he succeeded in militarizing again Rhineland. As WWI was very difficult to win and Germany was quite a powerful country, We can say, they were quite frightened by Germany. [...]