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2007-03-27 09:56:02 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

was participation by the us crucial to wining the war? explain

2007-03-27 09:56:56 · update #1

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1.) Lending money
2.) Producing weapons, food and other stuff.
3.) Sending the Navy to protect the convoys.

All this helped a lot. But if the U.S. hadn't entered the war it would have lasted much longer with a unknown outcome.
I don't think that the axis might have won but there might have been a peace with Hitler still ruling large parts of Europe.

2007-03-27 10:01:55 · answer #1 · answered by ak2005ok 4 · 1 0

You've heard of "lend lease"? This was a program where the US sold England just about anything they needed for the war effort. And best of all for England, they didn't have to pay for it until the war was over. In fact, they only recently paid off that debt.

US involvement was extremely important to Allied victory. The Axis powers were winning. In fact, it is likely that without the massive amount of equipment they supplied that England and Russia would been conquered before the US actively joined the fight. However until they did join the fight the Allies were in a very precarious position. The US joined the war at the end of 1941, and all of the early victories for the Allies were in 1942.

2007-03-27 15:19:25 · answer #2 · answered by rohak1212 7 · 0 0

It did not wait. U.S. warships were escorting convoys from Canada to the united kingdom lengthy in the previous Pearl Harbor, FDR only did not admit it nor enable Congress or the yank public understand. The Germans knew yet determined it became extra valuable to pretend lack of archives to steer away from the chance of open warfare, no matter if it does clarify why they were waiting to declare warfare once Pearl Harbor had began a warfare between the US and Japan.. production warfare components for the Allies could became curing the melancholy lengthy in the previous the US entered the warfare, this can besides the fact which have run into issues at the same time as the British ran out of money, which, once the US had entered the warfare became solved by technique of Lend employ.

2016-12-02 22:06:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Yes- England could have never launched the D-Day invasion on there own just not possible June 6,1944. United Kingdom was valuable it just didn't have the resources.

American forces helped with pushing the AXIS out of Africa by forcing Germany to divert forces into Tunisia stop the push from Algeria while the British-Allied forces pushed from the East. By 1943 landed in Sicily knocking Italy out of the war.

Also United States Air force played a big role in destroying the Luftwaffe and bombing raids went after German industrial targets. Not to mention air superiority over the battle field.

America provided material and man power in huge quantities. Much needed oil,food, natural resources,military supplies. English navy just didn't have enough ships to stop the U-Boats.

Russia was holding out on the Eastern Front, but this probably would have become a stalemate without a meaningful second front from the West.

2007-03-27 11:04:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Prior to entering World War II, the U.S. professed its neutrality, but that neutrality was really in name only, both in the war in Europe (basically Britain & Russia vs. Germany) and in the war in the Pacific (Russia & China vs. Japan). In the Western theater, as the European war is sometimes called, the U.S. pretty blatantly favored Britain. Its diplomatic relations with Russia had never been as close as with Britain, so most of its support stayed with Britain until the U.S.A. officially joined the Allies.

The U.S. maintained that it had a right to unobstructed shipping lanes to Britain, which it insisted that Germany not interfere with, and which it protected with U.S. Navy ships. There were, of course, no such shipping lanes to Germany, which was isolated by a British naval blockade. The U.S. refused to break that blockade to maintain shipping lanes to Germany, which the Germans saw as outright support for the British. Further, the U.S. provided Britain with ships and other supplies needed to keep its military campaign going. Ostensibly, these items were either sold to or rented by the British, but at prices that were extremely low. When Britain had no money to pay, the U.S. found other ways to get aid to its friend, such as the so-called 'bombs for bases' plan, in which Britain received supplies in exchange for giving the Americans military bases around the world.

In the Pacific theater, the U.S. had been helping China for many years (even before the official start of hostilities in Europe). Japan was at that time trying to establish an empire by invading China. In order to thwart this, the U.S. was providing supplies, most notably weapons, to Chinese soldiers who were fighting off the Japanese invaders.

The U.S. entering the war was a huge boost to the Allied effort. Before the U.S. entered, it might have still been anybody's game, although Germany was weakening quickly, mainly because it was cut off from so many supplies, Hitler refused even in the middle of the war to fully mobilize industry to support the war effort and Germany had a limited amount of troops that were having to fight a two-front war. Britain and Russia, though, were also both weary of fighting and neither of those countries had unlimited resources, either. Although no one can predict it for sure, chances are that a peace eventually would have been reached. Hilter likely would have regained control of much of the land he conquered, made a few concessions to the Allies, and then a few years later, after he'd regrouped and remilitarized the country, they'd have started all over again. Hitler was infamous for going back on his word (which is why the fact that most of Europe trusted his word for so long pre-war is pretty astonishing).

Winston Churchill, upon hearing that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, is famously rumored to have remarked, "So we've won after all." Churchill knew that Roosevelt needed something like this to convince the American people that war was necessary. Once America entered the war, it became more of a slugging match, seeing how long Germany and Japan could hold out, rather than a real undecided war.

2007-03-27 11:14:05 · answer #5 · answered by CT 2 · 1 0

"the us had weapons and money and they also had nuclear bombs which a big threat then and now "

Nonsense...In 1940 the US had barely enough rifles to equip the regular army, It had no tanks and the artillery was of Great War Vintage. Fighter aircraft were far below standard when compared with current European types, and the only part of the US armed forces that had modern equipment was the Navy.

But... They had Oil and they had Food to provide, and that is what really mattered.

2007-03-27 10:36:50 · answer #6 · answered by Hobilar 5 · 0 0

we sent them goods and traded with the allied countries.

2007-03-27 10:35:14 · answer #7 · answered by Peter 2 · 0 0

the us had weapons and money and they also had nuclear bombs which a big threat then and now

2007-03-27 10:04:08 · answer #8 · answered by Sarah B 1 · 0 1

not so much

2007-03-27 09:59:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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