Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy

The crushing defeat and ultimate failure of the Axis Powers was caused by significant events that had a great impact on the war. The Allies were victorious in 1945 due to the sheer military power of the United States, the infamous Soviet Transformation and the ‘Battle of Moscow’, the crushing fall of Japan and the vast resource differences between the Axis Powers and the Allies. These major events that took place during World War 2 helped shape the victorious outcome for the Allies, by not only weakening the German’s military force, but also its confidence.

There are many different factors attributed to Germany’s early success during the Second World War. While some factors were more significant to the German’s success, there is no debating that all of them contributed to the German’s attacking and conquering of Europe. It took quite a while for the Germans to begin to have trouble winning battles. The early success of Germany from 1939 to 1941 was due to Western Europe being afraid to have another World War, America’s lack of initial intervention, the Blitzkrieg, and Adolf Hitler’s intelligent militaristic strategy.

During World War II, Germany’s military was superior to anyone else in the world, with far more advanced technology, tactics, and weaponry. They had a fearless leader who would stop at nothing to make his country great again. Their closest rival, the Soviet Union, was almost out of the picture with a death toll of over 26 million. On top of that, Germany had nothing to lose, and would not conceivably stop. So how then, with all odds against them, did the Allies win the war? A combination of factors affected Germany’s downfall, such as lack of morale, unwieldy weapons, and failure to work with its so-called allies.

In this essay I will assess the significance of strategic bombing of Germany. I will do this by evaluating four key areas of the German war effort. This will include German and British moral, German economy, its effect on the outcome of the Eastern Front and the results of the preparation for D-Day. Overall allied bombing did not have a significant impact on the outcome of the war as for the majority of the war bombing techniques and technology were primitive and so had little effect. It only became a threatening tool latter on in the war, when the allies had effectively won.

In the first chapter, “No Easy Answers” Adam analyzes the events that lead up to World War II. This analysis describes the events beginning from the French Revolution to the next hundred years, that led to World War II. Adam emphasises, the “folklore version” of World War II is too simplistic, meaning many accounts do not cover all the different stances of  the war (1). The version that is simplistic which only covers one side roughly without its entirety.  He describes the events that led up to the war by describing the occurrences in three key states: Italy, Japan and Germany. The

The development of the allied military strategy in World War II (WWII) presented challenges for the U.S. and Great Britain as they worked together to defeat the Axis powers. First, this paper will review the environment at the time of WWII when Admiral Stark penned the “Plan Dog” memorandum and MAJ Wedemeyer’s War Defense Team put together the “Victory Plan”. Next, it will look at the advantages and disadvantages of coalition operations with supporting examples. Then, a review of two major meetings between U.S. and Great Britain will identify what strategic decisions were made and the effects they have on the war. Finally, this paper will explore the foundations of strategy (Clausewitz and Sun Tzu) by which the allied forces used and

In this essay I will explain why I think The Battle of Britain was the

They just lacked something extremely important, coordination. Had the Axis powers coordinated with each other and each other’s armies they could have easily overrun the Allied forces. Germany was very incompetent in regards to coalition warfare. Germany did however succeed in combining military operations with Italy, Finland, Hungary and Romania. Hitler did not however have any plans to coordinate with Japan which could have won them the war. The lack of emphasis on coalition warfare in German officer training, Nazi racial ideology and Hitler’s personality intensified the problems with the Axis powers armies. These problems cost Germany and the rest of the Axis powers the

The Second World War was one of the most terrifying events in the world’s history. The U.S.A fights back like never before against Italy, Japan and Germany. Previously the WWII by the 1930’s America was completely poor and lost. By entering in the War, The U.S. becomes a superpower in just four years. The disruption of World War II arouses the mobilization of American industrial and in the military section. The preparation for the battle and the mobilization of the War was a complete success; purpose and determination led the U.S.A to win the WWII.

Through bombing of German cities the Allies could to make sure their victory.  The AAF won daylight superiority towards 1944, which left the Nazis with many casualties. Having the upper hand here also helped the Allies out on D-Day, by losing fewer men than they would have.  " Rescue and repair activities. The strategic bombing also forced the GAF to change its priorities. In 1941 the Luftwaffe employed 65 percent of its aircraft on the eastern front; in 1944 it used only 32 percent there. Certainly that shift helps to explain, to some degree, German successes in 1941 and German failures in 1944."( Kenneth P. Werrell )   We also would bomb industrious places (oil factories) so that the Germans would have that much less oil or other crucial product that they needed for the war effort.  This theory  thought of by the U.S.  is known as the  "strategic interdiction, which the Allies used to cut the enemy’s capacity to field forces by destroying the production facilities that manufactured weapon

The Normandy Invasion may have been the single most important battle on the Western Front of World War II. Much planning went into the siege of these beaches that ensured a tough, but inevitable victory, as well as other factors, such as the exploitation of the Germans’ ignorance of the attack.

World War 2 was a period of political tension and military rivalry, largely between the Axis and the Allies. But in the end, what caused the Allies to have victory over the Axis? Although Germany had a significant technological edge, and Japan with her terrific morale and superb unity of purpose, but in the end, they were both buried under a mountain of US manufactured weapons. This is where I believe hydrogenation plants would play a pivotal role between mainly, The United States, and Germany. Hydrogenation plants were able to produce important materials such as synthetic and aviation fuel, which were largely responsible for running vehicles, such as planes and tanks.

This book written by Paul Kennedy is called “Engineers of Victory” and it discusses how the Second World War was fought and won by the Allied Powers. He discusses five main point that are often talked about actually winning the war by themselves. These topics are how we were able to overcome the “wolf pack” of U-boats to get convoys to Britain, gaining command of the air over the Luftwaffe, the ability to halt the Nazi Blitzkrieg, overcoming the harsh problems with amphibious landings, or finally over coming distance for America when they fought against Japan. Kennedy in this book argues that none of these alone were enough to win the war by themselves but instead working together were able to win the war.

Why? This is because the Allies were more powerful in combination. Germany’s Axis was not as powerful as you might think, the main powers at the time being England, America and Russia. Hitler could not essentially find powerful allies to assist him in his “quest”. On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, which started the downward spiral of his power. That and also the fact that he fought on multiple fronts, which after they were being defeated could only get pushed back into Germany. The Panzer IV, although powerful could not single-handedly win Germany the war, it would have to be a combined effort of all technology and overall strategical advantages to help Germany win the war, not just a single (but powerful)

Now, although the Germans were outnumbered in both military weaponry divisions, it was how they used them that made the difference in battle. The tank divisions on either side were nearly equal in ability, yet the German tanks were all equipped with radios, which allowed the German tanks to coordinate with one another in the midst of battle, compared to less that ¼ of the Allies tanks which had the same abilities. Another positive for Germany would be the fact that even though their planes were also outnumbered, the allied forces possessed some out of date and arguably obsolete planes in comparison to the standardized German fighters and bombers. Coupled with the fact that the French Air Force had been diminished in the previous years and were scrambling to obtain advanced planes from the United States to pair with the British forces, yet those were not readily available on 1939, ultimately giving the Germans the Air advantage, even though they had been