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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