world history help?

Question

how did hitler plan to defeat britaon?Why did he fail?

Answer 1

Hitler defeated England's armies on the european mainland (Dunkirk was very humiliating). Hitler's navy was going to blockade England, or at least harrass supplies from abroad. Hitler was going to bomb England and soften them up. This also didn't work quite the way he planned. Then Hitler was going to invade England.

Part of what saved England was the US and other allies who kept England resupplied. Part of what saved England is the technological advancements that the Allies brought to the war. The English planes were much more effective than the German air craft. The English ships were much more numerous than Germany's navy could handle. Germany, too, was its own worst enemy by over extending itself. If it hadn't spent so much effort fighting Russia and advancing across North Africa, there would have been more than enough resources to have flooded through England and conquered it--then taking on the other areas. In each theater of operations, Germany immediately and decisively won the day. But while Germany had incredible resourcefulness and stamina, they made several blunders, most of which involved some sense of over extending themselves. You could say that Hitler was greedy for power and his own gluttony felled him.

Answer 2

To beat them down, removing their ability to control their airspace and then to launch an invasion from Europe. He failed because the English continued to beat off the Luftwaffe over the Channel and to sufficiently protect the sea lanes in the Atlantic so that the convoys from the US could continue to supply them.

This would not have defeated Britain, even if this scheme succeeded, it would have been just England and Scotland, The overseas Empire and the US would still be in the fight. With England neutralized however, It would have been a very difficult matter to mount an invasion of Europe. This German success would then allow some of the resources used to guard the western front to occupy England and would have allowed Germany to put the rest of them in the east against the Russians

.Needless there is alot more to this than a few paragraphs nothing this big is ever simple. Do some reading.

Answer 3

Hitler never planned on fighting Britain. His plan was a quick little war with Poland, knock over France (revenge for WW1), then take on the Soviet Union.
Once the UK rejected his peace feelers (after the Fall of France), Hitler authorized Operation SeeLoewe (Sealion) planning "and if necessary carry it out". The key here is his phrase "if necessary". He still felt an accommodation could be reached with Britain.
The plan was to land on the South East coast of England from the Isle of Wight East to Dover. Airborne troops would capture airfields to the north of this line, and block reinforcements. Once the beachead was secured, and panzer/panzer grenadier divisions landed, they would break out for London.
A prerequisite would be the gaining and maintaining of air superiority over Southern England. This led to the "Battle of Britain", about which much myth has been written. The Luftwaffe was a basically a tactical airforce, and had no doctrine or equipment for such a strategy (again, Hitler never planned on attacking the UK, so no planning was done.) They came close to achieving their goal, but ultimately the RAF's integrated system of early-warning Radar, tactical air control, anti-aircraft, and fighters prevailed. Hitler lost interest, and issued definite orders to attack the Soviet Union by the end of 1940 (though attacks would continue into 1941).

Answer 4

Hitler knew he could not just invade Britain, so he did nothing but air raids on London in hopes that the government would surrender. However Churchhill stood his ground and Hitler actually started using a new model of plane that was defunct and slowed his progress down. Hitler became impatient with Britain, just as Napoleon, and went ahead and stopped the air raids to attack Russia, which in the long run led to his demise. Hitler had planned on invading England (which hadn't been acclomplished since William the Conqueror), but as I said, he grew impatient. Many believe that had Hitler kept the raids up for even one more day, London would have been completely destroyed and Churchhill would have had to surrender, thus allowing Hitler to invade. But we know our history. I hope this helps.

Answer 5

he planed to wipe out the RAF taking control of the air and thus rendering the Royal Navy defunct, then invasion, But HItler did not plan to invade Britian, they merely wanted them to cease hostilities so Hitler and Germany could concentrate on Russia.