Why Did The Allies Lose Ww2

Evan Yau HIS 293 During World War II, the German army seemed unstoppable at the start of the war. They were able to take Poland in just 35 days and invade France with their tactics like blitzkrieg (lightning war). With them having an amazing victory in France over the Allies, causing them to surrender in six weeks, it seemed like there wasn’t much the Allies could do to stop Hitler’s army. However, once Hitler turned his army towards the USSR, we saw that they were able to slow down and eventually defeat. Now it leads to the question of what factors led the Germans to be so unstoppable against the Allies in the east and what factors hindered them in the west. One of the main contributing factors to the German Wehrmacht’s defeat in the USSR
However, they pushed the invasions back to June as they needed to provide forces to help Italy with their invasion of Greece, which drastically limited the time they had before winter came. This caused them to be underprepared when invading, as they were not supplied for the Russian winters they were about to encounter, as they once again expected the invasion to be quick and end before winter. This would put the Russians at a greater advantage as the invasion dragged on, as at this time they were well versed in fighting in their territory and conditions, especially in the winter. The Germans were at a disadvantage when invading the Soviets, as not only were they not prepared for their weather, they mainly only had one advantage when invading the Soviets, which was the element of surprise, according to the textbook. This would mean that they would have to be quick with their invasion, as once the element of surprise was over, they would not have anything to their
“The Third Reich received important supplies of food and minerals from the USSR” (Mawdsley 112). This meant that when they invaded, they immediately lost the USSR as a supplier, which would’ve meant that the Germans would start to be limited in their supplies, which meant that they would most likely have to ration their supplies out carefully. Now we look to see why the Germans had so much success in the Battle of France. One of the main reasons that the French failed was because they fought the war the same way they fought World War 1, with, as the textbook puts it, a “defensive strategy rather than an offensive one” (Mawdsley 96), which meant that their troops would be slower for defensive reasons as they were not meant to be used offensively, allowing for them to easily be outmaneuvered. Another reason could be the way that the French designed and used their tanks. Mawdsley says that the French focused their strategy and tanks around firepower and centralized control. They also did not recognize how efficiently they could utilize the