HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Dowding System, Binoculars, Axis Powers
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10/10/1939: a few weeks after poland"s defeat, hitler defined the reasons for anti-west aggression. Hitler: the destruction of the power and ability of the western powers ever again to oppose the state consolidation and further the development of the german people in europe. Essentially a declaration of war against all of europe. 18/6/1940: 24 hours after france surrendered, british pm churchill says this: When general weygand called about the france"s defeat, i suspect that the battle of. Britain will soon begin hitler knows he will have to break us on the island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, then all of europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward. Churchill was aware that britain have only one equipped division (a canadian one) ready to combat german aggression; the wehrmacht was 143 divisions strong. Spring 1940: combined allied armies unified to form a 144-division strong army, but unlike the.
