why was the battle of britain a crutial turning point in world war two?

Answer 1

Hitler didn't want to invade Britain before having complete air superiority. When the Nazis lost the (air) Battle of Britain, it meant the German invasion was called off.

Answer 2

The battle of britain, although a very crucial period during WW 2 was NOT the turning point in WW 2. I have read and re-read the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer (1200 pages) and he contends that the turning point of WW2 was Dec 1941 when after a swift blitzkreig across Russia during the summer of 1941, the Nazis were hurled back into the snow and cold of the Russian winter by the resilient Red Army. After this retreat from Russia, the Nazis never gained any more ground.

The death knell of the Nazis, was their encirclement by the Red Army at Stalingrad in Dec 1942 and Jan 1943 when the surrender of Field Marshal Paulus was accepted by the Red Army.

Answer 3

If the RAF had lost The Battle of Britain the Germans would have Control of the air.
Whether they could have held of the Royal Navy they may have been able to invade.
The British forces were pitifully weak after Dunkirk, with basically one Canadian Division in England at the time.
If they had invaded it is arguable what the result would have been. ( How many divisions the Dominions could send, and if they could get there in time)

Answer 4

Germany's plan to invade Brittan [operation Sea Lion] was prevented. During the Air war over Brittan in preparation to land invasion, too many of Germany's air craft were destroyed thus they had no air cover for their ground armies. This nullified the invasion plans and allowed the allies to build up their own invasion armies in England.
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Answer 5

When the Germans switched from bombing the British airbase's to their cities...it was that point the war changed. A very bad call on The guy with the funny moustache's Part. The RAF were on there knees and this change got them on their feet again.

Answer 6

It demonstrated to Germany that they were not going to control the skys over England and they lost a lot of airplanes. However it was the French pilots who escaped the German invasion of France and got to Russia that won the air war in Europe. Hitlers strategy of blitzkrieg failed when the French Pilots shot down all of his fighters and bombers over Russia and they could not provide air support for the invasion forces. That mired Hitlers armies in the mud and snow for the rest of the war.

Answer 7

definite the conflict of halfway grew to become into rather a turning factor on the Pacific theater because of the wear brought about to the jap military that had a some distance weaker business base for reconstruction of it is fleet.

Answer 8

well: according to "Military History they fought German forces
driving them back into surrender During an Battle of Britain "
in 1944 " because we'd tried and lost