How come the United States wins World War 2.?

Question

Meaning what advantage did the US have over Japanese and Germany.

Thank you all so much. I like many of your answers and it will be hard for me to choose a best answer.

Oh and sorry for the bad grammar and spelling in my question.

Answer 1

There were many reasons.

1)Industrial capacity. the production figures clearly show that the US out produced both Germany and Japan due to abundant native resources and huge production capacity beyond the reach of Axis air power. Both Japan and Germany suffered signifigant loss of production capacity due to almost continuous bombing by the Allies

2)Military Intelligence - The Allies came into the possession of the German cypher machine early in the war which allowed them, along with signal intercepts, to determine the precise locations of the German U-boats. This allowed them to divert convoys from the U-boats positions, and to vigorously procecute the U-boats. The US was also in posession of the Japanese flower code, same result. Almost the entire Japanese merchant fleet was sunk, depriving them of war materiel which did not exist in Japan proper.

3)sabotage- active resistance movements in France, Belgium, and other European nations plagued the German forces throughout the war.

4)Superior tchnology - the Bomb - Germany was not able to develop in time.

Therewere many other factors, but I feel these were the principle ones. Remember, many nations comprised the Allies in World War II, and all filled important roles in the defeat of the Axis powers. Hitler also made may critical mistakes, opening up a second front in Russia, overruling his generals on D-day, not allowing his eastern forces to withdraw when their defeat was imminent.

Answer 2

America had everything to do with Germany's defeat, actually. The biggest reason the Russians were given such a pivotal role was because Roosevelt/Churchill recognized Stalin was a lunatic with no regard for human life. They knew he was more than willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of soldiers to the Eastern Front if it meant crushing Germany; which he did when the D-Day invasion kicked off.

At the time, America had the oil and industrial capacity to overtake Germany and Japan. However the US certainly didn't have better soldiers than the Japanese or even the Germans. Years of international isolation and depression crapped out the armed forces, but the sheer manpower was there. Two bodies of water on either side of the North American continent ensured the US was safe from invasion or bombing and so the cities were all left intact, unlike those of Europe and Japan. This became important after the war when reconstruction wasn't a domestic issue for the country and the US could then finance the rebuilding of Europe (frankly, you Euro's owe us your whole continent, but we don't say nary a word about it!).

Answer 3

The United States won WWII because the US had more available resources and raw materials available for war production. More importantly though, we had an entire country untouched by war that could produce war materials with those resources. The incredible production rates of tanks, guns, bullets, planes, etc. allowed the US to maintain their strength while German factories were bombed and their army suffered from lack of supplies. Japan depended on their conquered territories for raw materials, but those territories were slowly reconquered depriving the Japanese of resources.

Answer 4

I could not believe the post above, to wit: "The U.S. had very little to do with defeating Germany in WWII". That would be news to the Wehrmacht. The U.S. kept large amounts of Nazi troops tied up in Africa and then late in Sicily and Italy. From early in the war much equipment and food supplies were supplied to Russia via Murmansk and Iran. Trucks, tanks and airplanes by the thousands. And in the final assault even more losses for the German Army in France. Had none of this happened it is very likely Germany would have defeated the Russians.

Answer 5

One of the biggest, especially over japan, was its massive amount of resources and industry, capable of creating a massive war maching (there were over 2000 ships in the WWII navy as compared to about 350 or so today). For Germany, it wasn't so much American advantage, as it was HItler not listening to his generals and over extending himself before American entered the war. Also, America truly had very little to do with German defeat, it was the Russians who really won WWII in the European theatre.

Answer 6

When Japan bombed us and killed our people, we didn't sit down and take it. We bombed the P**** out of them. And as for Germany, we were asked to help the Europeans. We just knew how to kick butt back then.

Answer 7

When the US entered the war it had been going on for years already and both sides were in need of fresh troops. When America entered we brought thousands and thousands of troops to both europe and the pacific. We also Bombed their butts... twice

Answer 8

Atom bomb and better air force and ground troups

Answer 9

Better allies.

Answer 10

U.C. Berkeley...and superior will !