", In 1963, KGB monitoring recorded Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov saying: "People say that the allies didn't help us. In regard to combat balance, we see many disasters in Western Front as well. Germanys resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships in 1917 became the primary motivation behind Wilsons decision to lead the United States into World War I. In World War II, the three great Allied powersGreat Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Unionformed a Grand Alliance that was the key to victory. The impact of the United States joining the war was significant. Allies couldnt have won WW2 without full US support Allies could have won WW2 with US material aid but without US manpower Results are only viewable after voting. Robert Coalson is a senior correspondent for RFE/RLwho covers Russia, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe. He rapidly began to simplify construction procedures for the T-34 and within less than a year the number of man-hours required to produce T-34s was cut in half. SolomonOf47704 22 days ago. Quora - A place to share knowledge and better understand the world After all the euphoria in London and Paris over the avoidance of war with Germany in 1938 with the Munich Agreement, which enshrined the Wilsonian principle of self-determination to allow the 3.5 million Germans in the Sudetenland to unite with Germany, Chamberlain viewed Hitlers violation of the pact as a personal insult and breach of honor. Won It had been foreseen in 1916 that if the United States went to war, the Allies military effort against Germany would be upheld by U.S. supplies and by enormous extensions of credit. The fact that the US never hit production capacity in ww2 is just insane. Considering all the above information, it is reasonable to conclude that the war could be won without participation of US, or even Lend Lease, but it would cost much more lives and take much longer, and affect broader segments of world population. The lessons from the First World War should have been enough for Hitler and the German high command, but the decision to invade the Soviet Union in June 1941 when the British were still undefeated was a colossal blunder. Which still means the answer to the OP is yes, the Allies could win. It was quite well equipped with 9,248 tanks, 6,584 artillery pieces and. While the Japanese did draw away British resources to the Far East, which included the Commonwealth forces of Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Indian Army, this really didn't benefit the Germans all that much. British armaments orders would have started to dry up in late 1940 early 41 as currency reserves ran out. An estimated 25 million Soviet citizens perished in the titanic conflict with Nazi Germany between June 1941 and May 1945. WebWithout the Russian Front, Germany would have turned the beaches of Europe into an impenetrable fortress. The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917. On May 11, 1947, 27 people were rescued, having spent nearly three weeks in the icebound wreck. Much contention. Finland was only in the war to fight the Soviet Union, while the same was largely true of Romania and Hungary. Allies have won During the Spanish Civil War, which has been called a dress rehearsal for the Second World War, Germany's Luftwaffe perfected its strategy of using dive bombers and close-support attack aircraft. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 2023 RFE/RL, Inc. All Rights Reserved. There may have been mass starvation in the UK. The United States was never within striking distance of Germany and it should have been obvious that Japan couldn't mount an invasion of the American west coast. Rather, the consequence of lend-lease was to virtually bankrupt this country and lead to the collapse in our manufacturing base, whilst the Marshall Plan created one of the strongest economies in the world - who got the short straw? There is no denying that German industry was able to produce some very fine weapons and military equipment. All the while Indian colonial troops in India are still there, and many Chinese factions now encouraged with lessened Japanese forces in China. Instead, the United States became the arsenal of democracy and Germany's defeat was all but assured. The 76-year-old's private plane is expected to land at Aberdeen After the loss of aluminum sources in the Ukraine, 80 per cent of the aluminum used in the T-34s diesel tank engine came from Lend-Lease deliveries; without Lend-Lease, there would have been significantly fewer T-34s.84. Whereas Japan would not benefit from the lack of resources and infrastructure in these areas. The Lend-Lease act was enacted in March 1941 and authorized the United States to provide weapons, provisions, and raw materials to strategically important countries fighting Germany and Japan -- primarily, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and China. At these loss rates, the Red Army was still far more dependent upon Lend-Lease armour than it was willing to admit, and it did not have enough excess production to fully outfit its best units with T-34s until mid-1943. The Moscow Victory Parade on June 24, 1945, involved some 40,000 Red Army soldiers and nearly 1,900 military vehicles. Their aircraft carriers are mostly converted from civilian ships during interwar years. Yet, here again is a case of the wrong equipment. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. Without the American entry into World War II, its possible Japan would have consolidated its position of supremacy in East Asia and that the war in Europe could have dragged on for far longer than it did. Couldn't the 1 million strong 21st army group have advanced that deep? On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval base Pearl Harbor was the scene of a devastating surprise attack by Japanese forces that would push the U.S. into entering WWII. without the US sending in Millions of troops and supplying material I dont see an Entente victory. Of course, the easiest way Germany could have won World War II was by avoiding a fight with Britain, France, and the United States of America. And the US's wartime economy still had room to spool up even more. After the defeat of Imperial Russia, which came as the result of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917, the German Army was able to move vast quantities of men to the western front and launched a final offensive in the spring of 1918. However, the overall 71 exchange ratio between Soviet and German tank losses was inconsistent with the Red Army gaining any kind of superiority over the Wehrmachts panzer forces. At the same time, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini could have made demands for France and Britain to honor their promises to Italy for more Yugoslav territory in return for entering World War One on the side of the Allies. He believes that World War One could have been prevented, if Archduke Franz Ferdinand had survived the assassins bullet. But the Soviet Union was never alone: Months before the United States formally entered the war, it had already begun providing massive military and economic assistance to its Soviet ally through the Lend-Lease program. In contrast, people in Eastern Front were ordered to die where they stood. WebFormer president Donald Trump, who is facing court action in the US, is set to arrive in Scotland later today. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. Our tank production was lower than Germany's and the quality was appalling. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. For asking casual questions about History. By Germany had to deal with resistance and partisan efforts, and as the tide of war turned its "allies" left the fight. But when we look at the production numbers, we notice that Soviet war production was multiples ahead of German and Japanese war production. It was the job of the ordinary German to perish in Eastern Front where he stood. Even with everything noted above, Germany and its European partners could have still won the war were it not for Germanys declaration of war on the United States on December 11, 1941. We cannot measure the distance of the Soviet economy from the point of collapse in 1942, but it seems beyond doubt that collapse was near. Of course, we are not taking tactical considerations into account. One look at the map of southern Europe easily tells even people with non-military education that there is nothing soft about that location at all Italy is hilly, rough terrain, and where Italy connects to Europe is even worse impassable Alps totally clog the north, and beyond Alps there are many more difficult obstacles like Black Forest, or Yugoslavian hilly countryside. The United States and the British Commonwealth provided 55 percent of all the aluminum the Soviet Union used during the war and more than 80 percent of the copper. A map of lend-lease shipments from the United States to the U.S.S.R. from 1941-45. After Hitler became increasingly sidelined, this became a blunt policy, as you would see from the personal stories of relatives of (German) Quorans in regard to the late stages of war, and how many of them were ferried back to West so that they could surrender to the other Allies. Lend-Lease trucks and jeeps put the Russian Army on wheels for the first time ever while US food (including, famously, spam)kept the Russian population going. By the same token, the extraordinary pitch of mobilization achieved by the Soviet Union in 1942 and early 1943 was not sustainable. As noted, it dragged the Germans into campaigns that were unnecessary including in Greece and North Africa, and then when Benito Mussolini's government was toppled Germany was forced to occupy its former ally. FranceWhich countries have won the most battles? A major question, a major discussion topic. WebWould Russia have won ww2 without the US? Thats assuming they were able to make advances. The war would have had a very different outcome, which could have led to a completely different world today. Most famously, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt. We all know how the war turned outwith an overwhelming Soviet-Western Allied victory over Nazi Germany ending with the destruction of Germany and the death by starvation of millions of its citizens. The German Army was practically at the gates of Moscow in late 1941. Adolf Hitler joined a list of would-be invaders of the British Isles but clearly didn't remember that no one successfully invaded since 1066 when William the Conqueror defeated Harold II, the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England. This abrupt reversal in policy ended up triggering a world war which would cost over fifty million lives. A Soviet report by Politburo member Nikolai Voznesensky in 1948 asserted that the United States, described as "the head of the antidemocratic camp and the warrior of imperialist expansion around the world," contributed materiel during the war that amounted to just 4.8 percent of the Soviet Union's own wartime production. There is one World War II historian, John Lukacs, who has said that all three major allies were needed to beat Hitler. And as it happened in the real life, that means the fall of the entire German south flank in East and the loss of the Balkans. The First World War saw two factions of "great powers" square off. The Soviet failure to invest in developing armoured personnel carriers for their infantry, better reconnaissance vehicles and mobile flak guns were serious technical mistakes that proved costly in battle, but Lend-Lease deliveries of US-made halftracks and reconnaissance vehicles helped to partly rectify this deficiency by the last year of the war. 80% less T-34s due to the aluminium diesel tank engine problem would have been a catastrophe for the Soviet war effort. 4, issues 17-20), Captain America awakens from suspended animation in 1964 to find thatdue to a Overall, the Western Allies were responsible only for a small fraction of the losses sustained by German infantry and armor between 1941 and 1943 (around 10 percent); however, their contribution in the destruction and occupation of the Luftwaffe was overwhelming. They did not have the important critical resources, minerals needed for war production, hampering their already technologically backward equipment. Instead, Hitler strong-armed Hocha to sign a decree authorizing the entry of German troops into his nation effectively ending Czech independence. Should we condemn the French Revolution? WebRelatives and friends have buried children and others killed in a Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Uman. It had Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria on its side. The Soviet Union suffered the most casualties in the conflict, and the issue is highly emotional for many Russians. Yes Lend-Lease was vital, In order to ensure that tank production goals were met by Soviet industry, Stalin made Vyacheslav Malyshev, an engineer who had proven himself in the expansion of Soviet heavy industry in the 1930s, head of the Peoples Commissariat of the Tank Industry of the USSR (NKTP) that was established on 11 September. That neatly sums it up. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has contributed to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers and websites. U.S. Neutrality The United States remained neutral at the beginning of the war. But things suddenly take a weird turn after North Africa: Landings in Western Europe keep getting delayed despite all pressures from Soviets. WW2