_ Churchill became Prime Minister on May 10, 1940. For the next two weeks Hitler won battle after battle and had England on the run. The British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk was trapped on the coast of France. Their prospects looked dim. Hitler could easily have won the war at this point long before America would ever dream of entering the war. The rest of the twentieth century could have been different.

Hitler miscalculated. Churchill persevered. That won the day.

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