There were many different variables that contributed to the Allies overall victory in World War II. One of those variables was Adolf Hitler’s desires which outpaced his logistics. Hitler tried fighting a multiple front war, he had troops in North Africa, Soviet Union, Norway, France, and was battling England and the United States as well. Another reason is that Hitler attacked Russia when he did not need to which resulted in him having to fight in a two front war for years. The Germans were technically advanced over the allies including having an operational jet fighter when we were still flying prop jobs. Hitler had a pact with Japan but underestimated many decisive battles throughout the war in their quest for global domination and just didn't have the combined military force to pull it off. After Germany was defeated, the military might of Japan was not sufficient enough to win the war. The US did use nuclear weapons against Japan dropping Atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which hastened the end of the war, but there is no evidence that Japan would have prevailed had the US not dropped them. The Axis powers did not have the manpower or industrial capacity to defeat the Western Allies. America's industrial power gave the US an advantage, because they had more troops, more planes, more bombs, and more everything. It also didn't hurt that the US was the main source of war materials for the Allies either.
QUESTIONS:
1.) Could Germany have won WWII if they were only fighting on one front?
2.) If Hitler honored his pact with Russia and kept his forces in the west would the Allies still have won WWII?
3.) Who do you think did more to win the war for the Allies in WWII, the USSR or the US?
4.) What was the greatest accomplishment of the allies in WWII that allowed them to win the war?
5.) Would the Allies in WWII have won the war if the atomic bomb wasn’t created?
No comments:
Post a Comment