Why Dunkirk Happened

Rating: 4/10 (22 July 2017)

After World War 1, the Spanish Flu Pandemic killed most of the Prime Combatant Age 17 to 29 year olds that would fight World War 2, leaving the Old to take care of the children, this decimated many of the World's Large Militaries.
After World War 1, the French spent most of France's Wealth on building concrete fortifications, as the Maginot Line. Very little was spent on the French Military (Men and Equipment).
The 1929 to 1939 Global Great Depression occurred, most Nations were Bankrupt and spent their Nation's money on everything except their Nation's Defense, while Chancellor Hitler spent most of the Nation of Germany's money on building up the German Military. The Japanese Military built up.
The Modern German Military easily defeated the French Fortifications of the Maginot Line, by bypassing the Maginot Line thru the Belgium Forests. The French Fortifications Weapons could not traverse 360 degrees, the Germans sieged the French Fortifications of the Maginot Line and waited for the French starvation to force the French at the Maginot Line to Surrender, because there was not much spent on the French Military (Men and Equipment) the French Military was still using World War 1 Equipment and the French Military was very small (numbers of men).
The small French Military (mostly Infantry) and British Military (mostly Infantry) attempted to stop the German Blitzkrieg from bypassing the Maginot Line and were crushed by German Modern Armor (Tanks) and Mechanized Infantry, the survivors then fled to Dunkirk (not a Port, water too shallow), instead of Calais (a French Port). Most British Ships were in convoys going to and from the U.S., most British Aircraft were providing Air Cover for the Strategic Supply Convoys from the U.S..
The British Empire was collapsing, the British Empire lost most of the Strategic Resources for British Manufacturing, Fuel for Aircraft, Ships, and Vehicles. The British became heavily reliant on Democrat U.S. President Labor Intensive U.S. Military Defense Industrial Complex for even food to feed the British Civilian Population.
Most of the British Officers failed to take the initiative to regroup most of the "able bodied" (not wounded) Armed Soldiers (over 330,000) into Units and attack the German Wehrmacht at the weaker flanks. This lack of British Officer Initiative allowed the Germans to attack south then move west, and then north to completely cut off Dunkirk. Just as British General Montgomery failed to destroy the trapped German Army at the Falaise Pocket after the Normandy Invasion, resulting in the disaster of British General Montgomery Operation Market Garden at the Netherlands as to where some of the German Army escaped to from the Falaise Pocket, the other part of the German Army that escaped would be used during "The Battle of the Buldge".
The German Wehrmacht Blitzkrieg was primarily attacking south towards Calaise, not towards Belgium, and supported by the Majority of the German Luftwaffe.
The majority of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) were Hawker Hurricanes (709) as cheaper made of cloth and wood, and not the more expensive Supermarine Spitfires ((372) made of "Al-e-min-e-Um", British pronunciation. Aluminum costed as much as gold. The RAF Spitfires would be withheld to "the Defense of the British Isles" Only (Battle of Britain). Both looked the same from the ground at a distance, except the wings rectangular on a Hawker Hurricane, elliptical on a Spitfire, both sounded the same as using the Rolls Royce Merlin Engine.
German Navy's Focke Wolf 200 Condor Anti Ship aircraft with low altitude bomb sights to attack surface vessels not Luftwaffe Heinkel 111 with Higher Altitude Area Bomb Sights. Most of the German Luftwaffe's Heinkel 111s were bombing in advance of the German Blitzkreig, and the Messerschmidt BF-109s were doing "strafing" as air to ground attacks, as the French Air Force and the British Air Force at Belgium and France were defeated before the German Blitzkrieg Attack. Using the German Navy's FW 200 Condors meant less German Luftwaffe He 111s diverted from the German Blitzkrieg.
With the Japanese Invasion of China, and the French Colonies at Asia, the French Lost the Strategic World's Rubber at their French Indochina (Vietnam) Colonies to the Japanese.
At the U.S. the U.S. Defense Budget was severely cut, the U.S. Military was stuck with Obsolete World War 1 Equipment, 1911-1929 Battlerams (not Battleships) at Pearl Harbor, Oahu, U.S. Territory of Hawaii. While the Modern German Battleships of the Bismark and Tirpitz were launched with radar guided guns. The Japanese concentrated on the New Projection of Power of Air Craft Carriers, and built the Modern Battleships Yamamoto and Musashi. The U.S. Battleship Admirals that controlled the U.S. Department of the Navy refused to acknowledge that the Days of the Battleship as the Projection of Power were over, and continued to spend most of the U.S. Defense Budget on building Battleships.
The U.S. Military was mostly used as a Social Program to House, Feed, Cloth, most U.S. Citizens of the 1929 to 1939 Great Depression.
The Majority of the U.S. Population were National Socialist Democrats, that strongly believed in Germany's National Socialist German Worker's Party, a Political Labor Union, and demanded U.S. not Enter the War at Europe, as U.S. Isolationism. Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company had stated his Support of Germany's National Socialist German Worker's Party, and denounced the Jews during his Speeches all over the U.S., printed copies of the easily discredited Blame the Jews for Everything Conspiracy Theory "Protocols of the Wise Elders of Zion" to be given away free to those that attended his Nationwide Speeches.
"Repeat the Same Mistakes and Expect A Different Result", as after every "Armed Conflict" or War the U.S. Cuts the U.S. Defense Budget (U.S. Military, U.S. Intelligence Agencies, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Civilian Defense Contractors, other U.S. Government Defense Related.) from over 20 percent to about 11 percent, as setting up the U.S. Defense to Fail.