The Soviet Union And World War II

The sheer military power of the United States, and their appearance in the war, both had a major impact on the outcome of the war, striking fear into the opposing military forces. America was and has always been a very wealthy and large economy with an abundant supply of resources. This gave America the ability to mass-produce war machines such as planes and tanks to give them a large advantage over the Axis Powers. The US had an over-supply of war vehicles, which were later shared with Britain and France, providing a huge advantage over the Axis Powers. According to Historynotes, over “10 million American soldiers were ready to be deployed to help fight against the Axis Powers”. This statement clearly proves just how much military power America had over their opponents put together. German and Italian spies were reporting back to their country about the dramatic

But, through their sacrifice America greatly damaged Germany’s wartime industry making the odds of an American victory more likely.

     It was less than a year after war ended in Europe that Churchill revealed in his “Sinews of Peace” address that, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent”. The Soviet Union became extremely

In coordinating their military strategy with Britain, the Americans were able to defeat German submarine attacks in the Atlantic and begin bombing German cities. The Allied powers managed to drive occupying Germans out of North Africa and the Mediterranean in May 1943. Viewed as their greatest success, General Eisenhower led American, Canadian, and British on D-Day in June of 1944 to drive German forces out of Paris, France. Following a bloody battle through August of 1944, America succeeded in invading Berlin, subsequently liberating the ruthless German concentration camps. War with Japan was far more bloody, resulting in 250,000 Japanese casualties and causing a prolonged period of suffering as a result of bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Furthermore, World War II resulted in the death of over 50 million soldiers worldwide, 300,000 of them being American casualties. However, the United States had no obligation to enter World War II, thus, thousands put their lives on the line to promote the war effort of defeating fascism and establishing international

The United States and the Soviet Union emerged from World War II as the "superpowers" with vastly different systems. The superpowers also had two different ambitions for the future. These differences created a climate of icy tension that plunged the two countries into bitter rivalry. In this essay I will be discussing what Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union and Harry Truman of the United States wanted for post war Europe. Firstly, I will look at what the leaders wanted economically. Next, ideologically and politically. Then, finally religiously.

The Soviet Union suffered more bloodshed and destruction in World War II than all the other Allies combined. Four long years of brutal fighting along the Eastern Front left most of western Russia in ruins. More than twenty million Soviet citizens—both soldiers and civilians—died in the conflict. (By way of comparison, that's more than sixty times the number of Americans who died in the war.) After suffering such losses, Stalin wanted to keep Germany weak and disunited forever to ensure that another German invasion of his country would never happen again. Stalin had little interest in helping to rebuild Germany into a thriving nation-state, instead looting the country's valuable industrial machinery while endeavoring to prevent its political reunification.

The Soviet Union played a major role in the allied victory in World War II. They stopped the Nazi advances and eventually pushed them back on the eastern front. The Russian people showed great resolve to triumph in spite of drastic errors in judgment by the Soviet leaders. Some of the poor decisions were made by Joseph Stalin. The first major mistake was that he believed that he could stall the Soviet Union's involvement in the war until 1942. Stalin also made an error in trying to take advantage of the war by launching an attack on Finland. The Second World War was also a test of the Soviet system's organizational power. The collective agenda allowed the Soviets to out produce German forces during the war. One factor highlighted as

Like Britain, the U.S. was also one of the main forces on D-Day the attack that eventually led to the end of the war. Thus, Hitler’s underestimation of U.S. military power, led to Hitler’s defeat in World War

During the World War II, there was a point when the Germans looked all set to conquer the world and there was only the British standing between them and world domination. However, it was just a matter of time that London would have been turned into a pile of rubble and Hitler would have ruled Britain, and through it, most of the world. But then, Hitler messed with the wrong guy, a certain Russian named Joseph Stalin.

On December 7th, 1941, the United States of America entered the war after a surprise attack from the Japanese Empire. Hitler realized that now he would also be fighting the Americans, and began to change his focus from attacking the East to the South of the Soviet Union, in order to protect supplies that were necessary for the German war effort. However, with the Soviet Union continued their push against Germany in the south. The tide of the war changed once The Soviet Union won the Battle of

When speaking to the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin about the fate of Europe, Winston Churchill said “Might it not be thought rather cynical if it seemed we disposed of these issues, so fateful to millions of people in such an off-hand manner?” In what would come to be known as the “Percentages” Agreement, Churchill and Stalin had begun discussing a new age of imperialism that would follow the end of World War II. The imperialism they discussed was one of political and commercial influence as a way to control territories, instead of the colonial method. The colonial empires remained devastated following the events of World War II and, the dawn of Stalin and Churchill’s new imperialism would spark the Cold War between the economically

I have always been fascinated with the Second World War. In fact, it seemed only fitting that I would choose the Soviet Union's role in World War II since I like the Soviets as well. I have divided this paper into several sections to help complete this task. The first section will deal with the causes of World War II and the Soviet Union's role in them. The second section will deal with the battles the Soviet Union was involved in during the war. The soviet union had some physicians but most came after the war. World war 2 was a crazy war that didn't end good or bad.

The end of a promising victory to Allies, Germany and the rest of Europe now face hard times and are willing to give up anything to end their hardship. European nations now follow a quite controversial policy of totalitarianism which is essentially giving up one’s individual’s right to support the government. The country of Italy now is dictated by leader Benito Mussolini. While Italy is devastated and suffering an economic depression and high unemployment, Italy now lives under a fascist society and are willing to destroy basic individual rights in order to expand Italy. The Soviet Union is now dictated by leader Joseph Stalin, a monster one might say, as he destroyed anyone in the Soviet Union as a possible competition and political enemy.

Another failing tactic of Hitler’s was to focus on the Soviet Union instead of focusing on other countries. Hitler focused on eliminating the Soviet Union after Germany eliminated France. When Germany defeated France, Hitler made the mistake of not paying close attention to the United States. According to David Kaiser, an American historian, “The Second World War confirmed the lesson of the first: that no European power had the economic resources to compete with the economic might of the United States, furnished most of the supplies for the Allied war effort against Germany and simultaneously defeated Japan as well” (389). Hitler failed to realize that the United States had a greater advantage than France or the Soviet Union to defeat Germany. The United States was a simply rich country in military supplies, like tanks and airplanes that were used to put an end on Hitler’s army.

There are many different aspects to the beginning of all wars in which the world has faced World War II is not different. Each war is studied will show a difference in intent from all parties involved from the Germany and Hitler and including Stalin and the Soviet Union. In this essay, it will discuss in which ways Stalin and the Soviet Union helped Germany years before the war to be better prepared and how making a treaty with Japan help them be more successful in their invasions by freeing troops in the early phases of World War II. How the Soviet Union helped both countries?