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Battle of Britain
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“Miracle at Dunkirk”
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Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering
"My Luftwaffe is invincible. And now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks?” Hermann Goering in June 1940.
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Winston Churchill Churchill had become Prime Minister of Britain in May 1940 after Chamberlain’s diplomatic failure became obvious with Nazi aggression in Western Europe
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Operation Sea Lion
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Luftwaffe vs. the R.A.F.
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Phase 1. (July 10th - August 7th 1940) Attacks on the Channel Convoys
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Phase 2. (August 8th - September 6th 1940) Attacks on RAF Airfields
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Phase 3. (September 7th - September 30th 1940) Bombing of London, Major Cities & Airfields
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Phase 4. (October 1st - October 31st 1940) Concentrated Night Bombing Tactics
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London “Blitz”
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” (Winston Churchill)
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Winston Churchill “Never was so much owed to so many – by so few.”
“We shall never surrender!”
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German Blockade… 30 day supply for the British
U.S. pledges to remain neutral
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