Why did WW2 end? by Ms Lee https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80 US strengths? Germany's weaknesses? en-us 2020-10-21 01:23:58 UTC 2020-10-21 02:25:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847196444 Ingrid- Germany was defeated due to ineffective command structure.  Hitler was the main decision maker in Germany and often did not listen to the advice given by experienced generals, going against their advice instead. An example would be the change in strategy in the Battle of Britain. Another reason for Germany’s defeat was the inappropriate use of resources and military funds. Germany suffered from a lack of personnel, meaning that women often stayed at home instead of working in factories which led to a lack of manpower. Germany also suffered from the lack of appropriate weapons. Many new weapons were developed and used without sufficient testing, which was hazardous and imposed danger to users.Germany also had the shortage of essential equipment such as winter clothing and transport trucks due to the lack of attention to non military sectors. There were also too many types of armament meant that factories had to produce many different spare parts instead of focussing on a few proven weapons.This led to slow and ineffective armament production. ]]> 2020-10-21 01:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847196444 Zhi Quan https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847196725 Germany lost ww2 due to their ineffective command structure, Hitler was the only one who was allowed to make any major decision. He acted on his own and did not listen to his experienced commanders. An example was the invasion of the Soviet Union, he had planned to take over by the end of winter. However the soviet resistance was a lot stronger than he expected, by winter he was unable to take over. Hitlers generals tried to persuade Hitler to withdraw as the soldiers were unprepared for winter warfair, however hitler did not listen and in the end the invasion of the Soviet Union was a failure.]]> 2020-10-21 02:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847196725 https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847197213 Operation Barbarossa was a big L

]]> 2020-10-21 02:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847197213 Xinyi https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847197961 Germany had four key fatal weaknesses in the Second World War. These were: the lack of productivity of its war economy, the weak supply lines, the start of a war on two fronts, and the lack of strong leadership.]]> 2020-10-21 02:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847197961 Keith and Jayden https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847201986 1. Americans were very resolute in finishing the war as their motivation was strong, their motivation being taking revenge on Japan for attacking Pearl Harbor and killing their people.

2. America quickly militarised and directed 90% of their military powers against Germany this made Germany’s defeat all the more assured as now they had to contend with Britain and France which may have been manageable but now with America in the fight Germany’s defeat was all but assured.]]> 2020-10-21 02:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847201986 https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847202189 There was ineffective command structure. Hitler was the only person who could make a final decision. He was stubborn and insisted on his own ways instead of heeding to advice given to him by his experienced generals and made poor decisions during the war. An example was when Hitler disregarded the advice of his generals and shifted some of his military divisions from Moscow to attack other places, especially Ukraine when Germany had gained the upper hand in the invasion of the Soviet Union.]]> 2020-10-21 02:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847202189 https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847202207 Hitler got cancelled on change.org, with millions of teenage grils posting Star of David’s on instagram]]> 2020-10-21 02:03:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847202207 Austin https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847202246 USA supplied Britain with war materials through Lend-Lease Act.
USA also deployed troops to replace British forces in Iceland.
USA declared naval war on Italy and Germany.
USA also provided munitions till it could form an invasive force.
USA and British air forces bombarded German cities and their oil links/transportation.]]> 2020-10-21 02:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847202246 https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847204698 Justin- the reason for German defeat was due to German miscalculation and an ineffective command structure. The Germans were separated into the OKH, the OKW, Kriegsmarine high command, and Luftwaffe High Command. This separation of high commands made it difficult for them to cooperate and Hitler and his inner circle were the main people with all the information. This animosity and miscommunication between the high commands resulted in lack of air support for many situations such as during Operation Barbarossa and the Battle of Kursk. The German also had a lack of natural petroleum which forced them to make bad decisions such as engaging Zhukov in Stalingrad and refusal to retreat as they needed to fight for control over the oil fields. The lack of petroleum also made the German war machine weaker and made the Germans have to abandon their planes and tanks and even had to switch designs due to lack of oil for the more petroleum intensive machines. This lack of petroleum really marred many decisions and made the Germans have to cancel a variety of their offensive operations to save petrol]]> 2020-10-21 02:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847204698 Javier L https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847205972
  • Not destroying the United Kingdom armed forces on the beaches of France between 26 May and 4 June 1940/over stretching it’s armed forces and logistical tail. Many of the Allied soldiers who escaped at Dunkirk became the backbone of the British Army, who fought against the Nazi’s for the rest of the war and the Nazi’s could have taken the United Kingdom out of the war for good. I also have to say that this also shows one of the key deficiencies of Blitzkrieg, or Lightning war. I have read a number of historical papers on this and the most important element of the blitzkrieg concept was built around an organization designed, trained, and equipped for a short campaign in central and Western Europe. The eventual failure of the blitzkrieg system cannot be attributed to one particular commander or event. So when looking at the situation in late May 1940, the Germans had the opportunity to destroy what was left of the British Expeditionary force but did not, because it’s forward units had outrun their logistical tails and could not protect it’s own flanks from counter attack. Now when you compare how the Allies won the war from 1942 in the Western Desert, Pacific, Italy, North Western Europe this was because not only did they put the troops and material on the ground to win the battles, they also develop an immense logistial machine to supply the war fighting elements. Looking at Germany they did not do this and this of course was also a major weakness of the Japanese who effectively won battles by living of the land and this was not sustainable.

    • ]]>     2020-10-21 02:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847205972     Nairobi https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847208995 WW2 ended because of the lack of productivity of Germany’s war economy. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union, using the Blitzkrieg tactic, the German Army marched far into Russia. However, they did so on very slow, overextended, supply lines.  These supply lines hindered the German advance, and eventually led to a huge lack of supplies on the front line. This, alongside key Soviet advances, contributed to the German retreat.]]> 2020-10-21 02:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847208995 Aaron https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847211717 Hitler’s interference in war strategy and tactical military decisions(including the bad decision not to take Moscow in December 1941). I could give many examples of how Hitlers interference with the decision making of his general staff, led to the downfall of the third reich, however a big mistake was, his decision(against his general staff’s better judgement) not to attack Moscow in force in December 1941, when he could have taken the capital of Soviet Russia and probably Stalin. He course he did not listen to them and the rest is history.]]> 2020-10-21 02:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847211717 Kheng Ting https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847212365 When USA joined the war, they led the world in arms production and provided such arms and needed supplies to Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Britain and the USA also began an offensive together which lead to Germany’s surrender]]> 2020-10-21 02:09:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847212365 Shang Heng https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847212433 The US army had over 11 million men to help aid the British in fighting Germany and overwhelmed them 
    The US also supplied the British with ammunition, food, raw materials and stuff which allowed them to survive and then carry out the Normandy landing, invading Nazi-occupied France
    The US air forces had large fleets of aircraft which was used strategically to weaken Germany. For example, the US used their large number of B-17 Flying Fortresses, that could fly at high attitudes, to bomb the industrial hearts of Germany, weakening their military, allowing Germany to be defeated more easily]]>     2020-10-21 02:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847212433     Myra miyuki rachel https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847214174 WW2 ended because Germany employed its “blitzkrieg” (“lightning war”) strategy to sweep across the Netherlands, Belgium and France in the wars opening months and force more than 300,000 British and other Allied troops to evacuate continental Europe from Dunkirk.In June 1941, German dictator Adolf Hitler broke his nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union and launched operation Barbarossa which brought nazi troops to the gates of Moscow.]]> 2020-10-21 02:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847214174 Shang heng https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847218920 The British “shall never surrender”
    They “shall fight on beaches”

    ]]>     2020-10-21 02:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847218920     Bop https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847220196 Hitler’s Germany lost the war because of their over reliance on Blitzkrieg to attack and take over countries. Blitzkrieg worked because Germany usually had the superior weapons and tactical advantage against those small countries but when Germany decided to attack the Soviet Union, they failed to take into the account of the Soviet Unions winter which had slowed down their operation, eventually depleting their food and resources, which caused the red army to push forward against Germany, eventually pushing them back into Berlin. Coupled with Germany executing the Final Solution, this had took up most of Hitler’s attention and resources]]> 2020-10-21 02:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847220196 Ruben Heng https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847220887 Higgins Industries designed and built two basic classes of military craft.

    The LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), the best-known landing craft constructed of wood and steel was used to transport fully armed troops, light tanks, field artillery, and other mechanized equipment and supplies to shore. These boats helped make the amphibious landings of World War II possible.

    Higgins also designed and manufactured supply vessels and specialized patrol craft, including high-speed PT boats, antisubmarine boats, and dispatch boats.
    General Dwight D. Eisenhower said“If Higgins had not designed and built those LCVPs, we never could have landed over an open beach. The whole strategy of the war would have been different.”
    ]]>     2020-10-21 02:14:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847220887     https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847221542 summer & shannob  - germany lacked leadership 
    lack of productivity of its war economy, the weak supply lines, the start of a war on two fronts, and the lack of strong leadership.
    German Army marched far into Russia. However, they did so on very slow, overextended, supply lines.  These supply lines hindered the German advance, and eventually led to a huge lack of supplies on the front line. This, alongside key Soviet advances, contributed to the German retreat.
    In addition to the poor supply lines, Germany’s war economy could not support the extent of goods needed for the various invasions in the Second World War. As Richard Evans writes, in Germany ‘by 1944, 75 percent of GDP was being devoted to the war in comparison to 60 percent in the Soviet Union and 55 percent in Britain’ [Richard Evans, The Third Reich at War, (England: Penguin Group, 2008), p333]. Throughout the war, Germany became desperately short of fuel, coal and food.
    It was not until Albert Speer became Minister of Armaments and War Production in 1942 that Germany  started moving towards a total mobilisation of the economy for war, although this was still with mixed success. In mid-1944, the economy peaked. For Nazi Germany, in retreat with a defensive war being fought on two fronts, this was too late.


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    Operation Barbarossa where Germany decided to invade the Soviet Union ended in a massive failure due to an extremely unfavourable weather where German tanks and heavy artillery were held back and delayed as the snow made for difficult terrain to manoeuvre furthermore the winter that year was extra cold and distrusted German supply lines which resulted in Germany losing many of its troops in the invasion and thus causing it to lose the war.]]>     2020-10-21 02:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847223494     https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847224437 Justin- allied resistance played the most important part as Stalin managed to play a pivotal role along with the rest of allies. Stalin ordered order 227 which ordered the soldiers to not retreat and fight to the death. Stalin also managed to relocate his industry away from being captured by the Germans which allowed the Soviets to continue arms production. Allied resistance such as the Battle of Britain also destroyed a good portion of Germany’s military and the resistance movements such as the French resistance led by De Gauls and the Yugoslav resistance led by Tito also sabotaged German industry and killed off many of their soldiers and forced Germany to funnel more of their war efforts to rooting out resistance movements. This restrained the German war effort and managed to destroy a good portion of their  military, along with the armies of the allied which defeated the Germans at Sicily and Kursk which forced the Germans
    and Italians into full defence which was eventually cracked and they got defeated.]]>     2020-10-21 02:16:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847224437     Sureya https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847225115 The ability of the world's largest industrial economy to convert to the mass production of weapons and war equipment is usually taken for granted. Yet the transition from peace to war was so rapid and effective that the USA was able to make up for the lag in building up effectively trained armed forces by exerting a massive material superiority.this then allowed them to respond quick and effectively 

    ]]>     2020-10-21 02:16:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847225115     https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847225222 After the firebombing of Dresden and other German cities that killed tens of thousands of civilians, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine River and moved eastward toward Berlin. As they closed in on the capital, Allied troops discovered the horror of the Holocaust as they liberated concentration camps such as Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. With both fronts collapsing and defeat inevitable, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker deep below the Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945.]]> 2020-10-21 02:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847225222 Evian https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847225823 The US was a major industrial power capable of mass producing more planes and weapons of war than any other country in the war this resulted in the Germans getting overwhelmed by the massive amount of planes and tanks on the western front 

    ]]>     2020-10-21 02:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847225823     https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847228177 Although isolationism died at Pearl Harbor, its legacy of unpreparedness lived on. Anticipating war, Roosevelt and his advisers had been able to develop and execute some plans for military expansion, but public opinion prohibited large-scale appropriations for armament and defense. Thus, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, the United States had some 2,200,000 men under arms, but most were ill-trained and poorly equipped. Barely a handful of army divisions even approached a state of readiness. The Army Air Corps possessed only 1,100 combat planes, many of which were outdated. The navy was better prepared, but it was too small to fight a two-ocean war and had barely been able to provide enough ships for convoy duty in the North Atlantic. Eventually more than 15,000,000 men and women would serve in the armed forces, but not until 1943 would the United States be strong enough to undertake large-scale offensive operations. ]]> 2020-10-21 02:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847228177 Evian https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847229471 Battle of Britain made the Luftwaffe lose its air superiority battle of Stalin lost Germany 500,000 men which led to a shortage of manpower .The declaration of war on US caused the Germans to be outnumbered. german generals
     were also too obedient only listening to Hitler like friedrich paulus who listened to hitlers commands to stay in Stalingrad instead of breaking out which led to the surrender of 500,000 soldiers also the mass bombing of German cities in which a British commander had decided to use the German tactic of bombing cities in the Germans which was very effective in lowering German morale . French resistance also played a part in reducing German military capabilities by sabotaging and espionage ]]>     2020-10-21 02:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847229471     Shang Heng https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847229692 Patton, a General of the US army, juked the Germans into thinking that they were gonna stage an invasion on Calais, the closest beach from Britain, employing thousands of theatre people to make props and even made videos of him praising the army on the beaches of Dover, and purposely sending messages about the Calais landing, allowing German code breakers to intercept the message on purpose. This gave the illusion that the allies were really landing in Calais.]]> 2020-10-21 02:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847229692 Shang Heng https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847232271 Allied code breakers cracked the German enigma code, allowing them to intercept messages to anticipate Amy attacks and defence and stuff.]]> 2020-10-21 02:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847232271 https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847235859 Xuan En— Germany’s defeat in war was because of Adolf Hitler’s failure in preventing war on two fronts. Two-front war occurs when opposing forces encounter on two geographically separate fronts. The opponent consequently encounters severe logistic difficulties as he is forced to divide and disperse his troops, defend an extended front line and is at least partly cut off from access to trade and exterior resources. Initially, Hitler wanted to avoid two-front war. However, he failed to beat Great Britain in the air battle and in 1941 attacked the Soviet Union. Great Britain remained unbeaten and managed to maintain the western front. He also failed to neutralize Great Britain. Coupled with other circumstances such as the lack of resources for a long war and failure to achieve a quick victory in the east. Germany ultimately got defeated in the World War 2. ]]> 2020-10-21 02:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mei_yan_grace_lee/s9lhylmuw8zvrz80/wish/847235859