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I think the way the war has been taught in many years has been a bit misleading. The biggest winners of the war were the US who defeated the Japanese and the Soviets who mainly defeated Hitler (80-90% of German casualties were on the Eastern front). Hitler's greatest folly was to invade the USSR as he was up against an enemy far better resourced and far more ruthless than himself stretched over a land mass too large to occupy. As in wars today the story of the war in Europe centers around the oil fields. Once the Italians and Germans were driven out of North Africa and The Nazis had failed to take Stalingrad and gain access to the oilfields beyond Hitler was finsished, it was only a matter of time before the Red army took Germany. America and Britain joined the war in earnest on the Western front only once it was obvious Stalin would win and there was the real danger of the Red Army taking the whole of Europe. If the map of the cold war was redrawn to include the whole of continental europe the outcome might well have been different, although it was always destined to come to an end eventually. [[User:Mrvipond]]

I think the way the war has been taught in many years has been a bit misleading. The biggest winners of the war were the US who defeated the Japanese and the Soviets who mainly defeated Hitler (80-90% of German casualties were on the Eastern front). Hitler's greatest folly was to invade the USSR as he was up against an enemy far better resourced and far more ruthless than himself stretched over a land mass too large to occupy. As in wars today the story of the war in Europe centers around the oil fields. Once the Italians and Germans were driven out of North Africa and The Nazis had failed to take Stalingrad and gain access to the oilfields beyond Hitler was finsished, it was only a matter of time before the Red army took Germany. America and Britain joined the war in earnest on the Western front only once it was obvious Stalin would win and there was the real danger of the Red Army taking the whole of Europe. If the map of the cold war was redrawn to include the whole of continental europe the outcome might well have been different, although it was always destined to come to an end eventually. [[User:Mrvipond]]

== From an Economic Standpoint, Yes ==

== From an Economic Standpoint, Yes ==