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How Did Hitler's Military Tactics That Led To The Demise Of The Pacific

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After the six year conflict commonly referred to as World War 2, the Axis powers finally agreed to an unconditional surrender presented to them by the Allies. Germany was to be divided into four occupation zones to be controlled by the United States, France, Britain, and the Soviet Union. But while this resolution was being made in Europe, the conflict in the Pacific was still ongoing. Hundreds of thousands of Americans and other Allied powers were being killed due to Japan’s aggression and motivation to control the Pacific. The Allied powers use of advanced military tactics and their cooperation with each other ultimately lead to the fall of Nazism and the demise of Japan’s plan to rule the Pacific. The incident in the war that directly contributed to the final defeat of the Nazis was the Germans unpreparedness for the Russian winter. On June 22, 1941, Hitler ordered an attack codenamed Operation Barbarossa, an invasion of the Soviet Union. The invasion came by surprise to the Soviets and therefore, they had a hard time fending off the …show more content…

Hitler’s main goal had always been to advance east towards Russia but also protect Germany’s western border. As Hitler began his domination of regions to the east of Germany, his overconfidence led him to believe that he could in fact take over even more areas than he had originally planned. So, that’s what he did. He orchestrated an attack on both France and Britain in the summer of 1940. France was captured in the matter of weeks but because of the loss in the Battle of Britain, Germany’s western flank was still in danger of an attack. Because of Hitler’s arrogance, Germany was not able to place all of their military on the eastern front. This misstep essentially made Hitler’s blitzkrieg tactic less effective seeing that there were less German soldiers available to participate in large scale

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