Did the Allies really win ww2?

Professor Richard Overy discusses how the Allies overcame the initially overwhelming setbacks of World War Two, and succeeded in finally defeating the Axis Powers.

Which country was the last to surrender to the Allied Powers in ww2?

In the three to four months up to the end of April, over 800,000 German soldiers surrendered on the Eastern Front. In early April, the first Allied-governed Rheinwiesenlagers were established in western Germany to hold hundreds of thousands of captured or surrendered Axis Forces personnel.

Could the US have won WW2 alone?

Not a chance. The USA against Germany, Japan, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania would have been nearly impossible. The US fleet was crippled in December 1941 and our air power was so weak we couldn’t even hit the Japanese homeland until FOUR months later…that’s how unprepared we were.

How close were the Soviets losing?

From June to Dec of 1941 it claimed the lives of 5 million Soviet Soldiers or about 10 times as many lives as America lost in the WWII, European and Pacific theatres. The Soviet Union was pretty close to collapse after that onslaught.

Could the Germans have defeated the Soviet Union in the war?

In reality, the Germans were fighting a losing battle and had no chance of defeating the Soviet Union. This can be ascertained by a close reading of military analyses of the subject. One of the most detailed accounts is Alan Clark’s book “Barbarossa”, however, Clark was more of a historian, not a soldier.

How close was the USSR to collapse in 1942?

active oldest votes. 24. In the “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” historian William Shirer contended that the Soviet Union was close to collapse at the end of 1942, because it was on the verge of losing either the Caucasus oil, or at least access to it, via the Caspian Sea and Volga.

What could have prevented the collapse of Russia after WW2?

Only the failure of the German offensives at Stalingrad and the Caucasus prevented this result. The collapse might not have been total, but Russia would have been forced into a purely defensive war for local “strongpoints,” Leningrad, Moscow, and the oil between the latter and the Urals.

How many Soviet soldiers died in WW2?

From June to Dec of 1941 it claimed the lives of 5 million Soviet Soldiers or about 10 times as many lives as America lost in the WWII, European and Pacific theatres. The Soviet Union was pretty close to collapse after that onslaught.