Was WW2 a foregone conclusion?

Question

Sure seems like it from this map, which shows about 80% of the landmass of the world on the side of the allies...:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers

Answer 1

The short answer would be “yes,” based on the numbers of men, material, and wealth, the war was a foregone conclusion once the U.S. entered it. One important (if obvious) caveat, however: this superiority on the part of the Allies would have availed them nothing had they lost the “will to win,” that is, had they not been willing to pay the price in blood and treasure necessary to win. For example, if the major media and Hollywood instead of tirelessly promoting victory had continuously harped on ever set-back and seconded guess the commander-in-chief, if a large segment of the U.S. electorate had lost it’s stomach for war and begun to blame the president and his party for it, and if schools, churches, and civic institutions began to loose faith in the rightness of the American way of life and the evil of her enemies, then surely the war would have been lost to the Axis. Sound familiar?

Answer 2

Followers of Geopolitics - that geography plays an important part in international politics, will subscribe to this idea that geographical situation played an important part in the allies winning the war. Even with the technical advantages, geography is still seen as the winning formula for the war.

England as an impentatrable island fortress, Soviet Russia as protected by the climate and the mountains and vastness of the countryside, while Germany was in Central europe and could be surrounded on all sides, and Japan was vulnerable to attack from the coast.

However, geopolitcs ignores other factors - such as economics, military power, technology, the national spirit, ability of Britain to mobilise an empire to fight Germany and Japan, the large scale mobilisation of manpower by the allies.

Other factors would be the wastefulness of both Germany and Japan in resources in pursuing national goals as the extermination of the jews and invasion of Russia, and Japan's occupation of China and most of South East Asia which accomplished nothing.

Answer 3

no . god however did play a good part in the war as did satan . since god was on the side of allies we had a great chance of winning but if just one or two people thought satan is it or i dont belive in god we would have lost.