questions about countries during World War 2?

Question

Did Japan and Germany have a lot of resources during WW 2 or not?

Answer 1

germany was heavily depending on the resources coming from the conquered countries.
iron ore hab to be brought in from norway an sweden, oil came from romania and thx oilfields in the caucasus which they never got. rubber had to be imported, and later they tried to cover their needs with synthetic fuel, rubber ...
also they sent the merchant ships stopped by raiders, surface and submarine vessels back to germany if needed resources where found.
later even concrete was a raw material because all across the reich shelters for airraidprotection had to be built and giant defense lines like the "atlatikwall" around france, the netherlands and other countries required huge ammounts of steel and concrete.
even things like coffeebeans, fur, butter and daily used things were most of the time things the people would not have/get.
in 1944, despite heavy airraids the output of "kriegswichtige güter" (war important things like tanks, fighterplanes, rockets... ) was higher than anytime before, but the most important thing they were short of.

fuel.

japans relied heavily upon oil and steel brought in from the coquered countries. before the war against th eus started they decided to take the oil-rich colonies in the south-earstern pacific. those lacked any protection because the netherlands and most of western europa had been defeated by the "wehrmacht" and the uk was fighting for survival without any possibilty to send troops to their pacific strongpoints. before the start of the continental war in europe they already had conquered parts of china and other east-asian countries to secure their needs. later in the war they never had enough oil, steel and other resources to even cover their "daily needs" ... steel and oilstockpiles, needed for the replacement of lost ships, to get their planes airborne and feed the "thirsty" combined fleet never even got refilled. admiral yamamoto knew this and warned them, but they did not listen and were finally defeated because they lacked any resources needed to win a war lsting longer than one year.

Answer 2

What do you mean by resources? People?, Oil?, Materials?

Well they had plenty of arms. During 1936 Germany build up his arm forces. It started to mass produce Tank, Air crafts, etc. By 1941 German had one of the most powerful arm forces on earth. With over 3000 air crafts, 5,000 Tanks, Millions of train solders. Japan also did the same thing. with such a large build up you need to conquer lands for more resources for food, oil, and land.

Answer 3

Germany had quite a lot of resources. They increased their resources as they conquered countries such as Poland and France. Japan relied heavily on resources it gathered from Manchuria (Now part of China) which it conquered and occupied prior to and throughout WW2. They ran huge slave labor camps there in which many died.

Answer 4

Germany had a lot of as long as it was during Hitler's rule and he was improving economy with a fast speed and creating more and more troops (first - SA, then - SR) and remember about his economic programs - Industrialization that he conducted with a stress on automobile industry. So that means that he had all the chances to become a winner with good roads, good machines and good army.

Answer 5

Germany not much because they have just been in WWI1 but I'm not sure about japan

Answer 6

Both were industrialized countries, but neither had access to such raw materials as oil and rubber, which were both essential to the war effort.

Answer 7

much of industrial japan and germany's oil,fuel and steel came from the united states!!!one of the reasons that we were attacked at pearl harbor was that we had cut off these supplies to japan ;which was desperately trying to become a modern industrial nation!!britain even built japan's first "dreadnought" modern battleship which design they blueprinted and innovated from, in creating it's grand "imperial fleet"!!making ever large and more modern craft until they had created the "yamato" and it's sister ship "musashi" the 18" gunned "superdreadnoughts"!!ironic that the crown capital ships the "repulse" and prince of wales were sunk by the imperial japanese naval air forces a few years later near singapore and the malaya peninsula!!germany had the great silesia coal and iron workings,krupp arms company,but really very gradually improved its armored forces and navy under the strict limitations established against her by the overstringent versailles treaty!!the tanks that they employed were actually inferior to the french forces armor in every respect except tactics;and germany's tank tactics were largely borrowed from a french treatise written by charles degaulle!!organization,manuver and audacity all principles advanced by napoleon with calvary tactics in the 1800's!!!engineering and the the creation of superior armaments has always been the province of german energies since ancient and roman times!!their tanks were again altered and affected by the seizure of the skoda werks in chezkoslovakia which provided an excellent prototype for more advanced designs in tanks,anti-tank gun carriges and mobile artillery in adition to other hermaphodite armored weponry!!seizures of enemy iron and coal deposits were well planned before an "expansive war" was initiated!!roumania,the arab oil fields,egypt and the baku oil tank farms and refineries were all scheduled for seizure as the war progressed!!the battle of the bulge was the last gasp of the massed german armored forces and it's success was based on secretly relying upon seized enemy fuel stores,depots and storage dumps;as german supplies were insufficient to the task alone!!all whermacht soldiers carried siphon hoses and trucks would be dispatched to carry away,ammunition and fuel that was captured!!at this time the superb king tiger tanks were in the forefront of the nazi spearhead!!bad flying weather was relied upon "grounding both air forces" in the strategic battles arena from the ardennes forest across the interveneing rivers all the way to antwerp and an attempt to cut the allied forces in two and spread out to retake belgium and a foothold back in france to delay the war and perhaps sue for a separate peace on the western front!!japanese forces were forced into taking manchuria for its' coal and iron deposits,malaya and annam for their rubber and borneo and sarawak for their oil reserves if it was to continue to modernize and establish itself in what was afterall it's own area of influence which it would naturally expect to be free of faraway incurrsions from europe and america near it's "homeislands"the navy that they built was absolutely worldclass and superbly led!!

Answer 8

i'm no longer from a British colony. wager the respond could remember on your adventure of the British colonization. E.g., in the experience that your daddy had won status and a honest shake serving interior the King's military, you may attack the Nazi. in the experience that your mama were insulted mutually as in seek of justice from the colonial administrator, you may attack the Brit.

Answer 9

yes