What happened in the battle of Britain world war 2?

Answer 1

Hitler during WW2 wanted Churchill (who had taken over Chamberlain) to ally with him and despite Britain being alone in the war against Germany until 1941, he did not give in to Hitler's demands. So Hitler decided to use force instead.

* There were two major types of battles during the period that Britain was under going attack # The Battle of Britain -This focused primarily on Military outposts, airfields and barracks. As in order for Hitler he needed to control the skies over Britain with the Luftwaffe(German Air Force) so he focused most of his attacks on Airfields and such. # The Blitz -This focused primarily on civilians and the main goal of this was to break public morale in order for them to speak up against Churchill and surrender however, despite Hitler bombing for London for 77 nights straight, all except one. Not one person or party spoke up. Hitler thought that he had defeated Britain and it would only be a matter of months before they surrendered so like at the battle of Dunkirk he stopped attacking and focused on the east, Lebensraum. This would prove fatal to his final downfall, as when he attacked in May 1941 (Russia) breaking the Nazi-Soviet Pact he was also being attacked from the west by USA and Britain.

The first allied troops landed on European soil on the 6th of June. Deliverance Day had come.

Answer 2

The Battle of Britain was in May 1940, not '41. It was an attempt by the Luftwaffe to destroy Britain's air defence capability prior to Germany launching a planned air and seaborne invasion of the UK. Britain's military capability at the time was on the backfoot following the retreat from Dunkirk earlier in the year, and with the national rearmament programme not yet having had time to build up to full strength. Thus Britain was at her most vulnerable point of any time during the war, and was fighting alone because the US had not yet entered the conflict and Hitler had not yet invaded the USSR (France, her nearest ally, was already defeated and under Nazi occupation). German aircraft launched ground attacks and bombing runs against British air bases, air-defence installations and early warning stations- the plan was that with these out of action, a Nazi invasion force could storm into the UK by air and by sea. The RAF fought back heroically to smash the Lufwaffe- for two weeks in May, everything depended upon their ability to defeat Hitler's plans, and the entire future of the country lay in the hands of the air force. They at last succeeded in overhwelming a superior Luftwaffe force, causing the invasion plan (codenamed 'Operation Sealion') to be postponed indefinitely- after this, the Germans switched tactics to the heavy bombing of British cities in an attempt to destroy morale. The main British aircraft of the Battle of Britain were the Supermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane, as well as a little-known two-seater interceptor called the Boulton-Paul Defiant- this latter 'plane was used mostly as a night-attack fighter.