How did the US contribute to winning World War 2?

Answer 1

The loan of weapons 'Lend Lease' and the extra man power all helped but it was just 2 years too late really. Many Americans will say that the loan of weapons stopped an invasion of Britain but thats just not true and a very ignorant statement to make. Lend Lease did not take place untill March 1941, Britain had already fought off an invasion in the Battle of Britain which ended on October 1940 almost 6 months before Lend Lease even started. The Battle of Britain was to pave way for a planned invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion) to stand any chance of pulling Operation Sealion off Hitler needed air and sea superiority but he lost the Battle of Britain to Britain. Hitler had 4000 planes,many were destroyed invading Poland and France then Britain destroyed over 1,700 in the Battle of Britain. After the Battle of Britain Britain was safe from any invasion. Hitlers Military advisors warned Hitler that an invasion of Britain was not possible and a suicide mission so Operation Sealion was canceled and they moved on to Russia with planes they borrowed from Italy. Then 6 months later Lend Lease started and a 1/4 of Britains weapons were on loan,but in return Britain gave US troops training for D-day.

D-day was roughly 83,000 American troops 67,000 British 23,000 Canadian then Polish,French,Australian,New Zealand and many other countries were there too. Over half the ships and planes on D-day were French and British. D-day was planned and led by 5 British Generals and 1 American General.

America took care of the Japanese with allied help but Japan wasnt really much of a problem for Europe. America indeed to play a significant role in WW2 but other countries played much bigger roles. For instance Britain was bombing Germany just as bad as Germany bombed Britain a full year and a half before America even entered the War, 75% of Berlin was bombed which played a huge role in making it possible for Russia to invade Berlin. It was Polish intelligence Britain used to crack the Enigma Code, the Enigma code shaved 2yrs off the war saved millions of lives and made the war much easier from then on as it gave away all of Hitlers plans and posts etc. Most of Hitlers 4000 planes were destroyed by European forces before American even entered, same thing goes for Hitlers Navy and Troops. Hitler had 5 to 6 million troops,many of these were killed invading Europe (Poland,France,Russia, Battle of Britain etc)

End of the Day WW2 was a 'WORLD' effort and many countries did their bit and played significant roles

AnswerIn dollars and in a greater way, 292,131 Americans died in WWII.

Answer 2

• Naval Strategy: The German's use of unrestricted submarine warfare had wrought havoc on allied ships. The U.S. established the use of convoys to fight against the German u-boats
• American troops: the number of allied troops was beginning to dwindle. Many believed the U.S. troops could not make a difference. However, German and other Central Power troops were also decreasing in numbers. All either side of the war needed were more troops (not necessarily better troops) to tip the scales of victory in their favor. The U.S. offered more troops which caused their numbers to exceed what was left of the German army.
• American supplies: the Allied powers in Europe were beginning to run out of supplies (it was hard to get trade ships through the u-boat blockade). When America joined the war she brought with her food, weapons, ammunition, etc. that had been produced in large quantities in the U.S. (** This excessive industrial production leads to overproduction at the wars end and eventually the Great Depression for farmers especially**)

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Answer 3

The United States contributed to Allied victories in World War II in many ways. One way was through the Lend Lease Act in which we provided destroyers to help England repel the Germans. Another was through a sale of equipment to Russia so that they could slow the German advance on the Eastern front. Later, the United States entered the war and sent our own men and materials to Europe to help the war effort more directly.

Answer 4

Everything: Clothing, Uniforms, Canteens, Medical Supplies, Food, Knives, Rifles, Machineguns, Hand Grenades, bombs, Torpedos, Artillery shells, Airplanes, Warships, Transport Ships, Helmets, Tanks, Trucks, Jeeps, Amphibious Tractors, Landing Craft, Artillery, Wood, Construction equipment, Tents, and fighting men. Without the US, the Axis would have conquered every nation, with the possible exceptions of Russia (Soviet Union) and China.

Answer 5

The French and British and the other Allies had exhausted their strength and were unable to break the stalemate in France. The French Army had mutinied after the disastrous Nivelle Offensive of 1917, though this was kept very quiet. At least one fourth of the French Army was seriously affected, and over half affected to some extent by these mutinies. The British had lost their original army in 1914, drafted and trained another, which was shot to pieces on the Somme in 1916. Then the British ground themselves down in the Passchendaele Offensive of 1917. The Italians had lost more than 300,000 men in their disaster at Caporetto in 1917. In 1918, after two Revolutions in eight months, the Russians quit the war, freeing a million German soldiers to move to the Western Front, to win the war before America could make its weight felt on the battlefields.

The Germans began a series of five attacks in 1918. The first in late March smashed through the British Third and Fifth Armies and achieved a breakthrough, something never before attained on the Western Front. The British were pushed back more than forty miles. In early April the Germans struck the British again, north of the earlier attack. This was much more serious, though the attack was not as large. The British had little ground to give in this sector, because falling back meant they would lose the ports their army depended on for supplies, or, it they tried to fall back on and defend the ports, they would lose touch with the French line to the south, and then both the British and French would be separately defeated. It was the crisis of the war for the British.

The next attack, in May, was intended by the Germans as a massive diversion, to force the French to move their slender reserves to defend the attacked sector northeast of Paris. Then the next attack would be the big one, to break through. But the diversion succeeded far better than expected. The French line was smashed, a gaping hole torn in their line, and they had nothing with which to try to seal this breach. Paris was threatened most seriously. The Germans were not far away at all, and there was nothing to stop them. The French MIGHT have survived the loss of Paris. Maybe. But probably not.

Today the British and French do not like being reminded of these facts.

It was at this juncture that serious US contributions began. The US 2nd and 3rd Divisions went in to seal the wide hole in the French line. Though French units continued to retreat on either side of them, these US units stopped the German attack, and saved Paris. Everyone, French and British, freely admitted this at the time. You'd have a hard time getting a British person or a Frenchman to admit it today though.

US troops then went on to push back the attackers of this third massive German assault of 1918. There were now enough Americans in France to form the US 1st Army. This Army then went on to recapture the St. Mihiel Salient, a huge bulge in the line which the French had been unable to do anything about since 1914. Two weeks after this feat, the army had moved sixty miles over a few bad roads and turned from attacking eastward to attacking north, into the Argonne Forest and the area to the east of the Forest, to the Meuse River and beyond. The French had likewise been unable to move the Germans a single inch in this sector since the war settled down into the trenches in 1914. The Americans broke through, and continued on.

By this time the British had counterattacked in the north, and were driving the Germans back, but they were still a couple of hundred miles from anything strategically valuable to the Germans. The French were advancing cautiously on the American flank, once US troops had moved ahead and eliminated German resistance. After breaking through the Argonne Forest, US troops were driving for Sedan. This city was symbolically important, as the site of the French defeat by the Prussians in 1870. But it was much more important to the Germans because it was a rail center, in fact THE rail center on which their armies in France depended. When the US captured Sedan, the main German supply line would be cut, and the Germans only line of retreat would be severed. Their armies in France would soon wither and die, or be forced to surrender outright. US troops were at the edge of town when the high command, headed, of course, by French General Foch, redrew the army boundaries on the map, so that war weary French troops could have the glory of retaking Sedan, now that the Americans had cleared the way. Right at this same time the Germans asked for and received an Armistice, and the war was over.

In addition, two of the huge US divisions were fighting with the British at this time. A WWI US division was about the size of two and half of anybody else's divisions, over 27,000 men. This was about the equivalent in manpower of five British divisions. The British had only about sixty of their much smaller divisions in France. These two American divisions cracked through the Hindenburg Line for the British, taking the formidable defensive complex around the St. Quentin Canal, which had defied British efforts to take it since 1915.

Two more US divisions were fighting with the Belgians even farther north, and forced a crossing of the Scheldt River, driving back the Germans as the Armistice came.

Europeans habitually downplay the American contribution to the Allied victory in WWI. Some, such as historian Niall Ferguson, produce fat books, crammed with charts and graphs, to show the US might as well have stayed home. But at the time, everybody was in agreement that the American contribution was the crucial factor which allowed an Allied victory. Nearly two million American servicemen were in France at the end, and another million was on the way.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The US contributed by invading Japan and taking them over.

Answer 8

They had money and resources to give to the allies as well as more men.

Answer 9

They signed a peace tready.