"The Axis weakness was responsible for their loss in the second world war"

Question 1

1)Allowing Britain to survive

Answer 1

Hitler did not commit his full military capacity to invading and destroying britain in 1941, allowing it to survive. The Royal Air force survived because of his decision to bomb cities instead of RAF airfields. Britain hence kept the war going in the west and the Atlantic, and north Africa.. this caused problems for Germany, who had to divert resources away from the war in the east- especially after 1942. It eventually acted as the launching pad for allied bombing operations, like of dresden and hamburg, and finally operation overlord in june 1944.

Question 2

2)Invading the soviet union

Answer 2

-Germany is at war on two fronts

Question 3

3)Underestimated the US

Answer 3

Thought the Americans would remain in the pacific. Allies invade Italy- 85-15 statistic.

Question 4

4)Mussolini as a drain(Italy’s weakness)

Answer 4

-Failures in greece forced hitler to invade greece himself, delaying operation Barbarossa by 6 weeks.
-Invasion of italy
-Weak underbelly of Europe- When the allies invaded Italy, key german divisions were forced to divert to Italy to stop the allied advance. Accelerated the Russian counteroffensive.

Question 5

5)Hitlers personal conduct of the military-

Answer 5

1)Did not let paulus in stalingrad retreat-
2) did not prepare the Wehrmacht for winter- 3)ardnnes 44.
4) Concentrated on the production of v-rockets in stead of aircraft to contest allied air superiority.

Question 6

6)Material shortages

Answer 6

Rubber, cotton , nickel , post 44- oil .

Question 7

7)Military production did increase until 45, but

Answer 7

The diversification of weapons reduced the efforts in this area

Question 8

8)Not using women

Answer 8

Nazis didn’t use women- one million soviet women fought in the soviet union- Not using certain resources.