Do you think Britain could have won in ww2 without American help?
2007-07-27 03:29:16 · 12 answers · asked by justin k 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
No...the US ejecting the Germans from Northern Africa and then Italy helped set up the invasion of Europe (D-Day)...the British were not capable of doing the invasion themselves...the US made up the bulk of the invading force...if the US had not invaded Europe, Russia would not have been able to push the Germans out of Russia because it was too hard for Germany to fight a war on two fronts...the US did a great job with fighting a war on two fronts...if it had not been for the US getting involved most of Europe would be speaking German and the Pacific and Asia would belong to Japan...
2007-07-27 03:36:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No I don't think so. Even with Lend/Lease they could not have have made it. The British have to thank the Japanese for their salvation. If they had not attacked Pearl Harbor and the US had not entered the war they were lost. Without the US they could not have taken back North Africa. The middle East would have been lost, all the oil. Russia held their own, but without the US going into North Africa and Italy and then Normandy I don't they could have held out. Russia begged us to open a western front. Part of the deal was when Germany was defeated Russia would declare war on Japan and attack from the east.
The US fought two wars and did a damn good job of it.
2007-07-28 01:45:07 · answer #2 · answered by Tin Can Sailor 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Britain couldn't win the war without American help.
But without the Greatest and Victorious Red Army they both could fail.
By the way. American supplies were only 6% of what USSR produced. That's a fact.
2007-07-27 12:02:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No We probably couldn`t. We fought The Germans to a stalemate once we had managed to divest ourselves of the French but we needed the manufacturing ability of the US to continue the war.
It is nice to be reminded above, once again, as so many times on Yahoo answers that, once the Americans were in the war that we British retired to our homes, sat on our arses and did absolutely bugger all to aid the winning of the War. God Bless America!!. Please read history that is printed elsewhere than the US before spouting off.
Ray.
2007-07-27 17:48:04 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, even Churchill was begging FDR for more supplies via the Lend Lease Act, and like the guy mentioned above, the fate of the second world war rested on the outcome of Operation Barbarossa....
2007-07-27 16:34:51 · answer #5 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they shouldnt have been able to win with americas help Germany had easily most powerfull army and Hitler just made a few fatal mistakes that stopped him from otherwise winning war here is an exampl: Not invading Britain and conquering capital which it could have easily done when the country was in ruins
2007-07-27 10:53:33 · answer #6 · answered by chross l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Germany had a vastly numerically superior force to Britain. Britain was not capable of staging a successful assault on the European mainland. Look up Dunkirk.
2007-07-27 12:56:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, without American Lend/Lease they would have been out of bullets and food early in the war. They left most of their weapons on the beach at Dunkirk. The U.S. sent them weapons and fuel to defend themselves. We also supplied Russia or they would have dropped out of the war too. We protected the supply line across the north Atlantic or nothing would have made it to Britain.
2007-07-27 10:39:35 · answer #8 · answered by lestermount 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Allies almost lost the war against Germany. If one or two things were slightly different we would all be speaking German only!
2007-07-27 11:40:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably not. Germany was extremely powerful.
2007-07-27 10:36:30 · answer #10 · answered by Morrigi 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋