AND Operation Sea Lion Alix Pletcher Julia Hills Maddy Calvert Emilee Kaminski Golda Ferraz Thesis The Battle of Britain a completely airbased conflict represented the first time the Nazi Empire didnt easily succeed damaging German selfesteem This led Germany to turn away from Brit ID: 502484
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Battle of BritainANDOperation Sea Lion
Alix Pletcher, Julia Hills, Maddy Calvert, Emilee Kaminski, Golda FerrazSlide2
ThesisThe Battle of Britain, a completely air-based conflict, represented the first time the Nazi Empire didn’t easily succeed, damaging German self-esteem. This led Germany to turn away from Britain and target the Soviet Union.Slide3
Timeline
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Important Figures
Churchill honored the pilots of Fighter Command when he said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." “And for so little” cracked an RAF pilot who felt underpaid” (Moody).
ALLIES:
Winston Churchill
Prime Minister of England
Air Chief Marshal
Hugh Dowding
Commander in Chief RAF Fighter Command
AXIS:
Adolf Hitler
Leader of GermanyReichsmarschall Hermann GoeringSupreme commander of the German Luftwaffe
Winston Churchill
Hugh Dowding
Adolf Hitler
Hermann GoeringSlide5
WE NEED 6 VOLUNTEERS!Slide6
The PlanesBRITISH:
Spitfire
Hurricane
GERMANS:
Heinkel HeIII
Junkers Ju 88A
Messerschmitt Bf 109E
Dornier Do 17
Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka"
Messerschmitt Bf 110Slide7
MapSlide8
Phase One: The Channel Attacks
The Luftwaffe begins attacking British convoys (groups of warships) in the English Channel
Inflicted massive damage on the warships and the British stop using the Channel for their navy Slide9
Phase Two: Eagle Attack
The Luftwaffe attacks RAF airfields in order to gain air supremacy.
The RAF RADAR warning system coupled with the tight fighter control systems detected the incoming German planes.
Accidental German attack on London-Hitler responds with full-out bombings in London, resulting in the Blitz.
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Phase Three: The Blitz
September 7, 1940: Luftwaffe begin air raids against London.
September 15: Luftwaffe conducts two massive bombings-ends with 60 German planes shot down and 20 RAF planes.
Hitler decides to postpone Operation Sea Lion two days later. Slide11
Phase Three: The Blitz
After Hitler realized a land invasion of Britain was not going to happen, he shifted his focus to invading the Soviet Union.
However, Winston Churchill had other ideas...
brought the war to Germany, bombed historical town Dresden
Hitler gets mad and decides to bomb, or “blitz” historical towns in England, such as Bath.Slide12
Phase Four: The End of the Battle
Hitler realized Germany wouldn’t win the war of attrition with Britain: losses were exceeding British losses.
October 31, 1940: Battle of Britain ends. Slide13
The Importance
The first time Nazi Germany didn’t win
The British forced Hitler to cancel Operation Sea Lion
Germany focused on USSR Slide14
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