Summary
Germany turned attention to Britain after France
- German air force → large scale attacks on Britain RAF → bid to achieve air superiority
- Britain → formidable opp. → could tap into resources of vast empire to conduct war
- German turned attention to Br. Cities - bombed them in blitz campaign
huge losses of life and infrastructure
- british still kept on grim willingness and did not surrender
- led to their eventual defeat
Having defeated France → Hitler turned attention to Britain → where German air force → carried out large scale attacks → on Britain’s RAF → bid to achieve air superiority.
Britain → formidable opponent → could tap resources form its empire to conduct war.
- Germans→ later turned to British Cities → bombing them in campaign → known as Blitz.
- Lasted from September 1940 to May 1941
Blitz → caused huge losses of life + great damage to houses, docks, warehouses, factories.
- Despite losses → British kept grim willingness → to carry on with war effort + did not surrender to Germans.
- This contributed to Germans defeat later on