what were mistakes made by the axis in world war 2?
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Invading Russia & not invading Britain.  If they'd taken out the UK in 1940 and kept the Russians as allies it would have been impossible for the Americans to fight in Europe after Pearl Harbour.  \n\nBy the time Roosevelt had defeated the Japanese and got round to taking on the Germans it would have been the late 1940's.  Hitler would have had a working atomic bomb and enough jet aircraft to drop one on New York.
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world war 2 was going on
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Initially, the German army was one of the best, if not the best army in WW II.  Hitler was very helpful in decimating that army with his plunge into Russian in June 1941.  After that, the Red Army, the Russian Winter and Hitler's blunders destroyed the Army.  Troops in Russia with no winter clothes and Hitler's refusal to let Paulus and the German 6th Army break out of Stalingrad are a couple of examples of wasting fine troops.\n\nWhen the Allies landed at Normandy, the German army they faced was still a force to be reckoned with.  But a combination of Allied pressure and dwindling natural resources brought about by the day and night bombing of Germany, soon reduced the effectiveness of German army.  The Bulge further depleted the Wehrmacht.\n\nNear the end, the German army was using kids and old men.  The veterans and especially the NCOs had long been killed.
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When you say "allied forces" you generally are referring to the allies (America, France, England, Russia, Australia, Canada, etc.)  The Axis was the German, Italian, and Japanese forces.
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Basically World World II was like a continuation of World World I. Essentially this is what happened. World War I starts (aka - The Great War pre WWII) and afterwards its like everyone took a break. I'm not joking either. It was like a pause for 20 years. In the early 1930's, Japan invaded China. China actually had the most amount of casualties, not Russia or Eastern Europe. \n\nMost countries blamed Germany and so Germany had many sanction and restrictions put on the country. Hitler played off of these emotions and blamed the Jewish population for all of Germany's problems. At this time, Hitler was also quickly moving up in the ranks and finally became Dictator. \n\nHitler then started annexing countries in the mid to left 1930's and every country began to appease him. After he took over Poland and much of France, it was too late. The non-aggression pact between Germany and Russia made Hitler essentially invulnerable because from Eastern Europe was essentially all his to take over minus Russia. (Hitler would later reneg on the non-agreesion pact)\n\nThe United States needed an excuse to get into WWII and they finally got one on June 6, 1941 - Pearl Harbor. \n\nAbout 6 million jews were killed and 6 million gypsies, homosexuals, etc were killed. \n\nIn China, about 20-25 million were killed.
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There would be timeline repercussions.  World War 2 might never have happened, and the world would be a drastically different place.  It might be worse, or it might be better, there could have been some other crazy guy that just didn't get in before Hitler.  \n\nYes, I probably would kill him, but what if there was someone even worse out there just waiting for a chance?
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The Allies of World War II were the countries officially opposed to the Axis Powers during the Second World War. During the war they were often called the United Nations, although that name now usually refers to the United Nations organisation they established after the war.\n\nOn September 1, the German invasion of Poland began World War II. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand all declared war on Germany on September 3. Nepal, Newfoundland, Tonga, South Africa and Canada followed suit within days. On September 17, USSR invaded Poland from the East and on November 30 Soviet Union attacked Finland. The following year the USSR annexed the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) together with parts of Romania. The German-Soviet agreement was brought to an end by the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941.\n\nThe United States of America joined the Allies following the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The Declaration by United Nations, on January 1, 1942, officially united 26 nations as Allies. (The Declaration also formed the basis for the United Nations.) The informal Big 3 alliance of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States emerged in the latter half of the war, and their decisions determined Allied strategy around the world.\n\nDates on which states joined the Allies\n \nWestern allies blue, Soviet allies red, Axis powers black over the course of the war.\n\n\n\n[edit] Following the German invasion of Poland\n Poland: 1939, 1 September \n United Kingdom: 1939, 3 September (included Indian Empire & Crown Colonies) \n France: 1939, 3 September \n Australia: 1939, 3 September \n New Zealand: 1939, 3 September \n Nepal: 1939, 4 September \n South Africa: 1939, 6 September \n Canada: 1939, 10 September \n\n[edit] After the end of the Phony War\n Norway: 1940, 9 April \n Belgium: 1940, 10 May \n Luxembourg: 1940, 10 May \n Netherlands: 1940, 10 May \n Greece: 1940, 28 October \n Kingdom of Yugoslavia: 1941, 6 April \n Soviet Union: 1941, 22 June \nTannu Tuva: 1941, 25 June \n\n[edit] After the attack on Pearl Harbor\n Panama: 1941, 7 December \n Costa Rica: 1941, 8 December \n Dominican Republic: 1941, 8 December \n El Salvador: 1941, 8 December \n Haiti: 1941, 8 December \n Honduras: 1941, 8 December \n Nicaragua: 1941, 8 December \n United States of America: 1941, 8 December \n Republic of China: 1941, 9 December \n Guatemala: 1941, 9 December \n Cuba: 1941, 9 December \n Czechoslovakia (Government-in-Exile) : 1941, 16 December \n\n[edit] After the Declaration by United Nations\n Mexico: 1942, 22 May \n Brazil: 1942, 22 August \n Ethiopia: 1942, 14 December \n Iraq: 1943, 17 January \n Bolivia: 1943, 7 April \n Iran: 1943, 9 September \n Italy: 1943, 13 October (formerly a member of the Axis) \n Colombia: 1943, 26 November \n Liberia: 1944, 27 January \n\n[edit] After D-Day\n Romania: 1944, 25 August (formerly a member of the Axis) \n Bulgaria: 1944, 8 September (formerly a member of the Axis) \n San Marino: 1944, 21 September \n Albania: 1944, 26 October \n Hungary: 1945, 20 January (formerly a member of the Axis) \n Bahawalpur: 1945, 2 February \n Ecuador: 1945, 2 February \n Paraguay: 1945, 7 February \n Peru: 1945, 12 February \n Uruguay: 1945, 15 February \n Venezuela: 1945, 15 February \n Turkey: 1945, 23 February \n Lebanon: 1945, 27 February \n Saudi Arabia: 1945 March \n Argentina: 1945, 27 March \n Chile: 1945, 11 April \n\n[edit] After the bombing of Hiroshima\n People's Republic of Mongolia: 1945, 9 August
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Hi there, \n\nThe Second World War went on for 6 years from 1939 - 1945.\nIt caused a great man and machine loss for the humanity. People suffered, rich countries turned poor, poor countries turned poorer, and the poorer countries had nothing left after the war.\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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I doubt if they know, its racial hatered bred into them.But from what I know, the fault lies with the allies of world war two. Churchill and Eisenhower just drew lines on the map. Israel did not exist. The Palestinian were there, they had no claim to the land. The allies should have given both of them land, bigger than what the gave Israel. There was plenty of room. Who would have been able to question it.If they had the Palestinian problem would not exist
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look up world war 2 you will get the facts.also if you know any jewish people who had relatives in germany poland and other countries ask them and their parents and if possible their grandparents.
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Well we out produced Germany and Japan during WWII so the thought that we didn't mobileze effectively is shortsighted
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over 45 million. world war 2 was because Hitler was being a jack ass.
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The Marshall Plan while not perfect helped to assure peace in Europe. After the first World War Germany was stripped bare of assets, money and honor. This helped pave the way for the Second World War. What other choice was there. Other countries in Europe were at least partly destroyed and could have been the next flash point for War.
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germany,Japan,Italy (Axis powers)
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Anyone involved in WWII, Poland, the UK, Germany, Austria, Hungary. It wasn't just the Jewish people sent to the Death Camps, the Nazis hated everyone. \n\nTry this link but not if you get upset easily.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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A little more detail about what you're after would help.  One really good source of information is a show called The World at War.  It's available on DVD and talks about the causes of the war in great detail and shows footage of the war.  It's really amazing and would probably answer any questions you have about WWII.
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Launching operation barbarosa.... big oops.\n\nD-day... signaled the beginning of the end.\n\nThe failed attemp on Hitler's life... it made him even MORE paranoid and distrustful of his generals.