Britain's Role In Ww2 Analysis

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Winston Churchill once said, “I think I can save the British Empire from anything - except the British.” Britain had a drastic role in World War II, which began in 1939 and ended in 1945. Britain’s role in the war involved victories in land, air, and sea battles as well as ending Hitler’s dictatorship, taking down borders, and reestablishing the United Nations.
Appeasement in a political context is a policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. In the British perspective appeasement was their pre- World War II policy of allowing Hitler to expand German territory freely. Hitler took this policy for granted and shortly after the “policy” was signed he attacked and invaded Poland. Wiegrefe, …show more content…

The cruiser tanks were intended to operate independently of the slow-moving infantry and their heavier Infantry tanks. The British doctrine at the time did not foresee the armored division having a role in its own right and was assigned the traditional cavalry role. In the Luftwaffe had to destroy Fighter Command by itself and could not count on the Wehrmacht to eliminate the RAF on the ground. The Battle of Britain, air superiority was the prerequisite for the launching of the ground campaign. In spite of being heavily outnumbered, the RAF had an excellent array of early warning radars that fed into an integrated system of command centers. Fighter Command could choose when and where to fight, a great advantage when altitude and knowing where the enemy was usually determined who won in fighter on fighter and fighter on bomber combat. ."WW2 British Tanks and Armored Cars." The British Air Force was very intelligent and had all the planes and armor they needed to succeed in the air. The British air force, also known as the Royal Air Force, went under rapid expansion following the outbreak of war against Germany in 1939. The British trained in British Commonwealth countries under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The Royal Air Force’s plan was their strategic bombing campaign against Germany. British mainly raided at night, that way they had …show more content…

A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 shortly after World War II ended, this was in order to prevent another such conflict. The United Nations didn’t just come up in one day, it actually evolved into being. During World War II, United Nations was often referred to as the allies. The United Kingdom and the United states both join in 1945. Now that the war was over, negotiation and maintaining the peace was the practical responsibility of the new U.N. Security council made up of the United States, Great Britain, Soviet Union, France, and also China. "The United Nations Is