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In reply to the discussion: Putin wants to promote objective truth about WWII [View all]melm00se
(4,991 posts)don't understand is that the Nazis would have prevailed in WWII without the 3 major Allied countries each playing and fulfilling a particular role in WWII.
It is well known that the USA became the arsenal of democracy churning out an absolutely staggering amount of war material:
- Half the Allied airplanes used in WWII
- More than half Allied vehicles
- Half the Allied coal
- Half the Allied iron ore
- 3/4 of the crude oil
- more than 3000 Liberty and its successor Victory ships
- 100+ aircraft carriers
just to name a few
Among other things, Great Britain provided:
- A staging and jumping off point for the invasion of Europe
- The technical background/basis for many of the technologies used during WWII
- A bolstering of USSR tank forces in late 1941 to stave off the Nazis (excellent article here)
USSR provided
- The primary front against the Axis until the tide turned in North Africa
- This front tied up huge amounts of the Axis forces preventing the Axis from solidifying their conquered territories.
Without these 3 countries working in conjunction with each other, the Allies would have eventually fallen