The Battle of Britain was the greatest aerial battle ever fought, and played a crucial role in the Allied victory. Britain's triumph in this momentous gigantomachy of the skies would restore their lost confidence, and play an important role in helping them to defeat Hitler. In May of 1940 Germany invaded France. The French army and its British and Belgian allies were overpowered by the German blitzkrieg. Toward the end of May, Allied troops were backed up to the coast of France in the town of Dunkirk. ...

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In 1995, Queen Elizabeth II "signed a parliamentary bill apologizing to the Tainui people (of New Zealand) for the British invasion of their lands in 1863." ... Section II Part B Number 4-46 of the Vienna Declaration states that measures should be taken to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by 1995 (Drinan, 2001: 220). ...

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