Introduction
During ...
During WW2 considerable damage was done to the German war economy, affecting their capability to pursue the war long term.
The Russian campaign..
- contains some of the most significant turning points thus far in the war.
- Barbarossa was the most extensive land campaign ever conducted.
Stalingrad was the ..
the first significant victory of WW2 for the Russians and is being considered the most desperate in human history.
-The battle was horrifying to the German troops in numerous ways.
While it ....
- leading up to the air war, the axis powers - higher morale, technological superiority, numbers and strategies;
- first challenged and then finally crushed by the Allies.
A grinding battle, the Battles of El Alamein turned the tide in North Africa in favour of the Allies.
significant in determining the Suez Canal's control- quick route to India, the Far East, the Empire, and the Persian Gulf and oil.
-Britain's supply line would have become seriously jeopardised if the Axis had reached it.
It is hard ...
It is hard to pin one decisive battle as the battle that won or lost the entire war.
German offensives
From the start the German offensive was plagued by problems due to weather,
the fall rainy season set-in and the largely roadless country became virtually impassable to vehicular traffic.
Disease
Disease, as below-freezing temperatures claimed many limbs of unprepared German troops.
-eat their horses.
Blitz.
Axis bombing campaign
- failed to have a lasting impact on Britain's ability to wage war.
The Luftwaffe - 76 consecutive nights and over 40,000 deaths, 60% of all houses destroyed.
General rommel, the Afrika
General Rommel, the Afrika Korps and Italian army made excellent use of tanks causing the British to retreat.
-Montgomery, who had built up a massive advantage in men, tanks and heavy guns, launching the Third Battle of El Alamein.
Everything broke down- communications, supplies, machinery. Tank engines suffered; the ports could not handle the loads they did receive.
Weather
Moscow that some units were reporting weather-related casualties at up to five times the combat casualties' rate.
Railway was used
Railway was used to transport supplies to the Soviet forces, and the overall plan was to give the defence only the necessary provisions and provide reinforcements instead.
RAF
Despite being seemingly outnumbered by the Luftwaffe and not allocated a sizable number of resources, the RAF strategies proved to be more effective than German aircraft and tactics.
The failure to win the battle of Britain, poor tactics of the Luftwaffe meant that Germany was bombed to Smithereen, ruining their war economy.
In May 1943
In May 1943, t surrendered, not long after German forces had already lost Stalingrad's battle. Most certainly a turning-point, the Axis lost production, logistics, technology and logistics to the allies.
thesis
however, it is arguable that the Russian Campaign was the most significant but was only part of an overall strategy for the war's prosecution
German Failure
The German failure in Russia's invasion was losing focus of the ultimate objective- to knock Russia out.
numerous slips: tactically, in intelligence, production, the logistics nightmare, and adapting or creating new technology, kept piling on.
Casualties
-Soviet forces suffered around 1.9 causalities the Axis suffered 1.6 less yet they never recovered.
Morale
victory had a profound, lasting effect on British people, creating confidence and determination
Germans plummeted with Post-war surveys had 91 per cent of German civilians claim bombing was the collapse of their morale."
Operation torch
American troops landed in Morocco and Algeria as part of Operation Torch and drove east; the Afrika Korps were trapped between advancing British and American soldiers, surrendered, forced to retreat from Africa.
The ...
The air war and the North African Campaign were also highly significant to the Allied consolidation of power.
The allies.
The allies had exposed limits of Blitzkrieg and Germans invincibility was now discredited.
The Russian Campaign continued to the battle of Stalingrad.
This was a turning point..
-This was the turning point because, before the Russian campaign, Hitler was still on course to win the war in Europe.
-After Germany failed to take Stalingrad, this turned the war in putting the Russians on the offensive, which directly aided in Germany's destruction and conquering by the Allied Forces throughout 1944 and 1945.
thus, ..
Thus, allowing the British to see victory over Germany in Britain's Battle also in further battles throughout the war.
results
- the Germans were overextended,
- Italy was a weak and unreliable ally.
-Defeat heavily restricted Axis access to vital supplies opened the opportunity - the third front in Italy
- boosted faith in the North-Atlantic Alliance.