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Originally posted by archer2371
Another one of Hitler's mistakes was not ordering winter uniforms for his troops for the battle in Russia.
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I don't think the missing winter uniforms had a big effecton the german troops. It was the sheer number of russians and the fact that russia has adapted to the german tactics that defeated germany. And of course the fact that hitler wanted to apporve every little command given to the troops, Hitler had too much influence on the command line. His commanding officers were the best in the world, he should have left them do their work.
Without Hitler Stalingrad would have been not such a big defeat and Kursk would have been a success (perhaps
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Originally posted by archer2371
I pretty much agree with the stalemate theory, altho, the United States with it's manufacturing techniques and technologies would have bombed all hell out of Germany (and possibly used the H-Bomb) to end Hitler's reign.
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Hardly, without the front in Russia, the german luftwaffe would have had all the time and equipment to defend the homeland against the bombers. The development of new technologies would have been much faster (When it comes to bombing runs, have a look at the "wasserfall":
http://www.luft46.com/missile/wasserfl.html).
And remember Germany was also working on their A-Bomb.
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Originally posted by Zeld2.0
Japan felt the embargo the U.S. was doing for their war in China was hurting the economy. They saw war as inevitable. They thought the attack on Pearl Harbor would push us *out* of the war. They were obviously wrong.
They could hve easily gone out diplomatically, thereby keeping the U.S. neutral in its affairs. Instead of confronting the U.S. forces, it could have gone around and continued its conquests until it was ready for war.
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No, both Japan and the USA wanted the war. Japan needed it to free themself from the economic thread and the USA wanted to make clear who is the Boss in the Pacific.
"The question was how much we should manoeuvre them into the position of
firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves."
(Roosevelt's Secretary of War, Henry L Stimson, dated November 25, 1941 - about two weeks before the Pearl Harbour attack.)