not completely, war propaganda for the most part.

The allied forces as a whole turned the tide on the war,and the war was one when Germany made some tactical blunders.

The Germans would have eventually been beaten by the Soviets and the RAF. However, the Japanese would have been able to consolidate control of the Pacific Rim if the USA hadn't intervened. (Although, if the USA hadn't crippled the Japanese economy before 1941, maybe it wouldn't have been as necessary (although I doubt that the Chinese would agree.) The Japanese still eat whale meat due to a mindset that they are vulnerable due to their lack of natural resources.)

The USA did play a huge role in WWII, and most likely the allies would have lost without us. However the same can be said for Russia, Britain, China (to a lesser extent). Every country played a pivotal role, the only difference is that before the war the US basically drove the war effort by giving our allies weapons when they needed them. Badly. Point is-yes we turned the tide, but it was a joint effort that couldn't have been done alone.

I realize this may be unpopular but can anyone make a case for the allies (minus the US) actually winning that war? I don't see how it could have been done. DR away.

I believe that having the United States join the war gave the allies the number of soldiers and resources that were required to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy. With out the US where would that have come from. The Russians would not have had the second front they needed to take off some pressure. Plus England would have probably fallen with out convoys of supplies flowing into them early in the war.

Yes. The U.S. industrial power and resource was instrumental. Britain was being worn out and though they withstood the Battle of Britain and continued to fight would not have been able to turn the tide, neither in the European Theatre nor in the Pacific Theatre. The Commonwealth forces fought bravely but would not have been decisive on their own. As for the rest, (China, Free French et al), they did not play as significant a role as they would like to think. Russia did push the Germans back but part of that was a result of the Allies opening a second front in Europe, something Stalin had been strenuously pushing for since early in the war (after he changed sides). Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, who planned the Pearl Harbor attack, warned Tojo against attacking the U.S. and "waking the sleeping giant". After the attack, he said that now the war was lost for Japan becasue of the U.S. entering it.

Definitely, and Australia is grateful they did. Without them holding off the Japanese in the Pacific, we would have been captured. The Japanese razed our northern city, Darwin, and were going to use it as a stepping stone to take Queensland, and then the South of the country. They sent minisubs into several of our city harbours, including Sydney, to soften us up. If the Japanese had not been so reckless as to have attacked Pearl Harbour, Australia would have fallen. We had no way to protect ourselves, with such a small population, and many of our men fighting in Europe and Asia. Plans had been made by our government to withdraw all citizens from above the Tropic of Capricorn, and to try and defend from below that line.

It is a shame that they did not join earlier! Then our troops could have stayed at home because they obviously had no part in the victory.

Granted, but it is defended on priciple.

G'day Debris, Thank you for your question. The USA manufactured most of the weapons used to defeat the Germans and Japanese. However, we should also acknowledge the millions of troops lost by the Soviet Union in the war and the hard fighting by Commonwealth forces. Regards

Yes. The industrial capacity of the US and it's huge resources in material and manpower, as well as it's 2-ocean Navy, were certainly huge factors in the overall victory. However, the other Allied nations played key roles in theaters no less important to winning the war where the Americans sent only token forces.

The only reason why the Allies won the war was because Hitler made the mistake of invading the Soviet Union, or simply failed to take the Soviet Union in time, had he taken Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad sooner, the Soviets would have capitulated and Hitler would have had more troops to deploy in Western Europe. D-Day will always be remembered by the American and British forces as the turn in the tide for the Allied forces, however it was the Soviets that fought the hard yards, the western Allies (US, UK) only got so far because the Germans were prepared to surrender to them, the Germans died fighting the Soviets in what was to be tit-for-tat fighting.

The answer to your qustion is a definite yes. Before the conflict started, the U.S was a major supplier of oil and scrap metal to Japan. Because of it's war of aggression in China, the Americans cut off the supply of these strategic resources. With only 6 months supply of oil in reserve, the Japanese had no recourse but to attack the American Naval Fleet at Pearl Harbour, the Philippines, and the British colonies of Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore and Burma so as to allow them to invade the oil rich Dutch colony of Indonesia unhindered. U.S., in turn, started out a campaign to isolate mainland Japan by destroying all shipping to and from the island with unrestricted submarine warfare and the strategic areal bombardment of it's industries and infrastructure. While the Americans, the British, and Australians kept up pressure on Hirohito's military forces in China, Burma and the Pacific, the need for Stalin to keep his East Asian troops became redundant. This allowed Uncle Joe to use these troops for a counter offensive which started at Stalingrad and finally finished in Berlin. American strategic bombing of German hydro-electrical dams, oil fields, industries, rail roads, and civilian areas created logistical nightmares that the Nazi war machine just could not overcome. It was American airpower that eliminated the Luftwaffen fighter planes in western Europe as a effective defense cover. It was American men and materiel that helped the British defeat Rommel's Afrika Korps in North Africa. The United States was an industrial super power that kept Britain alive by supplying it with needed food stuffs, military goods and manpower. The United States helped eliminate the U-Boot menace and kept supply lines open in the North Atlantic. The American use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki shortened the war with Japan.

Can't say that it is the only reason but it was a big factor.

American Contribution to Allied War Effort Provided ships, military goods, weapons and food to Britain. Americans garrisoned Iceland and Great Britain. Americans won the Battle of the Atlantic by eliminating the U-Boats as a threat to Allied convoys. The United States tipped the scales of the war in North Africa by invading Vichy France's colonies. Thr United States bombed by daylight military, industrial, hydro-electrical dams, rail roads, oil wells and civilian targets in Germany and occupied Europe. The United States helped to eliminate the German Luftwaffen as an effective defensive tool. The Americans supplied the ships, materiels, weapons and men that landed in Sicily, Southern France and Normandy. It was American men, tanks and aircraft that blunted the German counter-offensive in the Battle of the Bulge. Americans isolated the Island of Japan from it's mainland armies by unrestricted submarine warfare. Little or no materials necessary for the war effort reached Japanese industry. Also, this caused a shortage of food stuffs. The Americans bombed and burnt out Japanese factories and cities. The Americans kept Japan pinned down in the Pacific and China. This allowed Stalin who feared an attack by Japan on Siberia to redeploy his Far-East Asian army to the European theatre of war. This force took Stalingrad and began the counter-offensive that finally ended in Berlin. The Americans dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki forcing Japan to sue for peace.

Well, the US was the reason for Japan to lose, but i believe that the Soviet Union would win on the European Front without the help of the Western Allies around the end of 1945. But indeed it is done more quickly with the Western powers helping.

Absolutely. Britain was nearly overwhelmed - just a little more time and I've no doubt they would have been obliterated. (No offense intended, I have the utmost respect for the British military forces, but I'm calling it as I see it.) With Britain out of the way, Germany would have been able to focus their attention fully upon Russia instead of being divided on two different fronts. Russia, as has been noted elsewhere, fought a difficult battle as it was. Their war was a war in which every inch gained was gained in pain and blood and was defended to the death - much moreso than America's side of the war. If Germany had been able to focus their entire forces on Russia... I think the world would be speaking German right about now. The balance was delicate, at best, before America fully entered the war. America's forces served to tip the scales to the Allied side.