Fair play to your folks...
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The 3rd and probably most crucial mistake, was the agreement with Japan to let them run the Asia/Pacific region. Bringing the Americans into the war at a time when British reserves were running low was fatal. Although the US forces were not as good as ours, their sheer weight of numbers and the amount of equipment they had swung the scale the other way.
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This business seems to be forgotten a lot. That the English war effort was running out of stuff fast. The That's why U Boats were such a major problem. If you cant ship stuff in, then you starve.
The Germans new this, and thats why they put "unbreakable" crypto on where these U Boats were.
Except it wasnt unbreakable. Turing and the people of Bletchly broke it. It was all top secret of course, but being able to know where and when the U boats were going to be anywhere was an absolutely huge deal, and it marked a (secret) turning point in the war.
And... what did England do for the father of computer science, builder of the first programmable computer, major player in WWII?
Completely ignore and keep secret everything he has done, and harass him to death for being gay.
Obviously.