Though the odds and numbers were against the British, it was the unorganized planning and overconfidence that led to the British army to ultimately win the battle against Germany. The invasion of France ended in June 1940; it was not until over a month later that Hitler made the decision to invade Britain, because he was unsuccessful in trying to get the British to surrender. The Battle of Britain was not an immediate, necessary battle to Hitler, but because he wanted and would benefit from air superiority, he put forth the effort to fight it anyway. The small number of British forces fueled overconfidence for Germany and
United We Conquer From September 1939 to the summer of 1942, the Axis powers were winning the war. Then the Allies had key victories in the Pacific and in Europe. The tide had turned. In June 1942, the Allies won the important battle of Midway Island in the Pacific. The Allies forced Japan to retreat and go on the offensive.
“Asses the significance of the North African campaign in the Allied victory in WWII” The North African Campaign was a key part of World War II as it was the first real defeat on Germany, allowing the allies to attack, and ultimately pulled them further away from victory in the East. The significant elements from the North African campaign for the allied victory in WWII included; it assured the British still gained control of the Suez canal, the creation of the United States involvement into the war, the tactical significance, Germany had to fight a 3 front war. The conflict in North Africa rose around Italy’s eagerness to utilise Germany’s 6-week successful invasion of France and make an impact on the war. In September 1940 Italian General Graziani invaded British colony of Egypt sparking the campaign. Italy did not hold a threat to the British until March 1941 when German Africa Korps counterattacked under the command of General Rommel.
September 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War Two. The United States of America wanted to stay neutral during this war. It was the Allies (Britain, France, Russia, Australia, and Belgium) against the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, and Romania). The war reached its two year point and the United States stayed clear away from being involved, but then on December 7, 1941, the Japanese Empire attacked American airfields and ship yards. The United States reaction to the bombing on Pearl Harbor leads to the fall of the Japan Empire, due to the United States involvement with the Doolittle Raid, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the Atomic Bombs.
Firstly, Appeasement was a policy adopted by Britain and France in the years before the outbreak of war. It involved giving Hitler what he wanted in the hope it would satisfy him and he would stop requesting more. As Britain and France found out, Hitler was a greedy man and no intention of stopping. So all Britain and France did was allow him to strengthen the German forces and empire. An example of this was the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936.
The reason why the island held such strategic value was because it had airfields that brought US bombers within sticking range of continental Japan, which would allow the US to employ air raid strategies that proved extremely successful in Europe. Set the Stage The United States a neutral party in the erupting World War is taking by surprise when an unprovoked attack by Imperial Japan on Naval Station Pearl Harbor takes place at 0755 on December 7th 1941 led by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (Naval History & Heritage Command
There were many reasons how the Nazi Soviet Pact played a greater part in causing war in 1939 than the policy of appeasement such as an important factor, which let Hitler invade Poland without having to fight a war on two fronts. Also, after the failure of appeasement, the British had guaranteed polish security. Once Germany invaded, the British would be forced to declare war. The Nazi Soviet Pact can be considered major causes of World War Two, however the policy of appeasement was the most important reason for the war. The Nazi-Soviet pact was responsible for the outbreak of war because France and Britain had decided to finally intervene.
Why did the US promise Stalin that a second front would be open? The motives behind Operation Overlord are more because of political power play between the allied nations rather than opening a decisive military front. The most remarkable aspect of World War II was how America committed itself to the battles occurring in Europe and had not concentrated on Japan, the United States’ main aggressor. It was the Americans who were impatient to confront the German army on the continent while the British were haunted by the deepest misgivings about doing so. ““Why are we doing this?” cried Winston Churchill in a bitter moment of depression about Operation OVERLORD in February 1944, which caused him a spasm of enthusiasm for an alternative Allied landing in Portugal.
After Britain declared war on Germany, France joined in with Britain as they felt threatened that Germany was going to take over them. At the beginning of the war the Axis(Germany, Italy, and Japan and other minor powers) were winning over the Allies(US, Russia, Great Britain, France, China, Canada and other minor countries), this soon changed at the battle of “ El Alamein” and the attack on “Pearl Harbour”, where arguably the allies started to win the war. In the battle of “El Alamein” the British and its allies started to win, where the German advance through North Africa was stopped by the British army. At El Alamein the German North African army was trapped between the British forces and an American army. 275,000 German soldiers surrendered and the German campaign in North Africa was ended, although General Rommel managed to escape back to Germany.
After spring 1945, with Japan in an extremely weak position, the United States was considering the following ways of bringing the long war to an end: invade the Japanese mainland in November 1945, ask the Soviet Union to join the war against Japan, assure continuation of the emperor system, or use the atomic bomb. The U.S. believed that if the atomic bomb could end the war, Soviet influence after the war would be restricted and domestically the tremendous cost of development would be justified. (1) After Germany's surrender, tension mounted between the U.S. and the Soviet Union regarding the disposition of postwar Europe. The U.S. began worrying about the increased influence the Soviets would obtain if they joined the war against Japan in mid-August as planned. The U.S. believed that if the atomic bomb ended the war, the U.S. would establish postwar supremacy over the Soviets.