Saturday 16 April 2011

What is the summary of how the Allies defeated Germany?

The Allies defeated
Germany in part because they had more resources, particularly after the United States entered
the war in late 1941. After that point, the tide of the war began to shift in the Allies' favor.
In the Pacific Theater, the Allies used Hawaii and Australia as launching points for their
strategy of "island hopping" or "leap frogging," which involved attacking
less defended islands in the Pacific en route to approaching mainland Japan. The Battle of
Midway in June of 1942 was the first important Allied victory on the way to ever-closer attacks
on Japan. The war culminated first with incendiary bombing over Japanese cities and then with
the detonation of two atomic bombs in August of 1945, leading to Japanese
capitulation.

In the Western Front in Europe, the Allies began with an
assault on German troops in North Africa in 1942. Led by American general Eisenhower, the
attack, which included forces from Britain, New Zealand, and Australia, was successful, and from
there, the Allies headed to Sicily and up the Italian boot, meeting with fierce German
resistance. At the same time, the Allies conducted heavy bombing over German cities such as
Dresden. On the Eastern Front, the Russians repelled a German invasion, incurring heavy military
and civilian losses. The Allies launched an amphibious attack on Normandy in France during D-Day
in June of 1944 and, from there, fought their way to Berlin, where the Soviets met them in the
final days of the war. In the end, the Allied manpower and resources overwhelmed those of
Germany, Japan, and the other Axis powers. 

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