ABSTRACT RoAoFo WAR PLANS AND BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY: 1935-1940

After Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 the Royal Air Force of Great Britain produced a series of reports in which they evaluated the threat of enemy air attack, By 1938 they had reached the conclusion that the country was vulnerable to a "knock-out blow " which might result in defeat after a few weeks of bombing. The British Government was repeatedly warned by the Air Staff that the country was not prepared for war because of its vulnerability to air attack, In September 1938 Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, met Hitler at Munich and was able to avert war through an agreement on the secession of Czechoslovak territory to Germany0 In September 1939 Britain decided to go to war despite the "knock-out blow " which was still expected. Germany did not bomb Britain at the beginning of war as had been predicted for so longo When bombing did begin i