There are many factors which contributed to an Allied victory in World War II: the cooperation of the Allies with each other, the mass amounts of supplies the Allies got from America, and the “colossal sacrifices by the people of the Soviet Union.” Individually, the countries that made up the allied forces could never had defeated Germany’s massive military power; however, the three were able to join together with a common cause—desire to defeat Hitler—and work to succeed. The major powers against the Allies, Germany and Japan, did not work together to defeat their adversaries. During WWII, the United States turned nearly all of its factories into ones that could produce war effort products. This enabled the Allies to defeat Germany because of the sheer amount of mechanical power they had. Finally, the Allies could not have won WWII if the Soviet Union had not “stopped the seemingly unstoppable advance” of Germany’s military. The fighting in the east made Germany divide its manpower between the two fronts of the war (US and Britain in the west and USSR in the east) and the massive effort of the USSR eventually defeated the east half of the German army.
How might WWII have ended differently if the US had devoted more than 15 percent of its war effort against Japan?
What factors made President Roosevelt’s military advisors believe the Soviet Union would surrender to Germany in 1941?
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