what was germany's goal at the battle of the atlantic?

Answer 1

The United States was sending food, troops, and equipment to the UK across the Atlantic. Given the productive disparity between the Western Allies and Germany, this situation was likely to eventually lead to Germany's downfall. Germany was trying to stop the movement of troops and equipment across the ocean through aircraft (not very successful, and since Germany was always short of combat aircraft until 1944, not very long-lived) and U-boats (which became much less successful with the introduction of mass construction of escorts, radar, and long-ranged patrol craft.

Answer 2

The conflict at sea between Allied merchant ships and their escorts and German U-boats, christened the Battle of the Atlantic by Winston Churchill on 6 March 1941, was arguably the decisive campaign of the Second World War. Only the clash of massed German and Soviet armies on the Eastern Front was as influential in its outcome. To survive, Britain needed imports of food, fuel and raw materials from overseas. If Britain had fallen, there would have been no base for the western Allies to launch a strategic air offensive or a land invasion of the European mainland to defeat Germany and Hitler would have been free to concentrate all his resources against the Soviet Union.

Answer 3

Freighters. The U-Boat war was institued specifically to strangle the British supply lines. Initially they were very successful as sonar was terribly unreliable and the British had not perfected the setting up of a convoy to guard against U-Boat attacks. As the war wore on submarine detection equipment became much more sophisticated and the use of aircraft made both the airplane and the destroyer the two main enemies of a U-Boat.
By the end of the war the U-Boat service lost 30,000 sailors from a force of 40,000.

Answer 4

Britian, despite being a world superpower in the 1930s, did not produce enough food itself to feed its own population. Instead it relied on imports from all over the world, but especially wheat from the United States.
By 1940, it became obvious that war material - fuel, ships, tanks, munitions and so on - would also be needed and gradually (even reluctantly) the USA started to send these as well as food.
By sinking the supply ships the German High Command intended to starve the British people and prevent them being able to sustain military operations.

Answer 5

They wanted to force England to surrender from lack of supplies. Or at least make it easier to invade by starving the nation of food, fuel and war materiel. At the time England was quite heavily dependent on supplies from it's own territories as well as lend lease from the US.

The U-boat campaign was supposed to make resupply impossible by sinking merchant ships faster than they could be built. It was almost working. But one month the British had complete access to the German coded signals and sunk a huge number of U-boats. Then, before the Kreigsmarine could fully recover, the US had entered the war and the Liberty ships started to be produced in huge numbers.

Answer 6

Their goal was to close the sea lanes between Europe and the New World. Both the UK and the USSR were getting war supplies, as well as food, from the US, Canada, and "neutrals" like Mexico and Argentina.

Later in the war, the US Navy would close the sea lanes of the western Pacific to Japan's merchant fleet.

Answer 7

Their Goal was to get the British to the peace table. They tried to accomplish this by cutting off Britains aid from America--Canada and other Countries forcing them to the peace table!!!!!

Answer 8

The Germans wanted to shut down the supply line to the UK.

Answer 9

cut off supplies from america reaching britain/europe.luckily they failed.