Despite the defeat of its European allies in the first yr of the war, Britain and its Empire continued the battle alone against Germany. In 1940, the Royal Air Force defeated the German Luftwaffe in a battle for control of the skies within the Battle of Britain. There were additionally eventual exhausting-fought victories in the Battle of the Atlantic, the North Africa marketing campaign and the Burma marketing campaign.

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British ships transported an estimated two million slaves from Africa to the West Indies. The world’s oldest worldwide human rights organisation, Anti-Slavery International, was formed in London in 1839. …