What effect did the battle of britain have on WW2?
In June 1940 the War was going very well for Germany. They had partitioned Poland along with Russia. Scandinavia was under their control They had invaded and conquered France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Holland. To the south they were allied with Italy To the South West they had a “friendly” neutral in Spain. They had just thrown the British Army into the sea off Dunkirk. Basically everything was going to plan. All that needed to be done was to convince the British to quit or conquer their country and then they would have all Europe under their control which means the attack on Russia would probably be successful and they would then control Eurasia from Vladivostok to Brest. The Italians would have had an almost free hand in Africa to claim the riches and resources of that continent With the Japanese holding China and South East Asia the question is whether he would turn on his former allies or would they combine to go after the only power left that could conceivably challenge them. Would