What were the reasons for the defeat of Japan and Germany in World War II?

Updated on military 2024-05-13
17 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-10

    Morally speaking, at the very beginning of the war of aggression launched by Germany and Japan, it was doomed to defeat one day. Tactically speaking, Germany's successive victories at the beginning of the war had a great deal to do with its own adequate preparations for war, while the United States, Britain, France, and other countries were not well prepared for war, and adopted a policy of appeasement after the war began. It is difficult to say whether the war would have developed into what it would have been if Britain and France had been able to come to the aid of Poland in accordance with the treaty when the Germans invaded Poland.

    The situation in Japan was roughly the same, if the Northeast Army had not resisted at the time of the September 18 Incident, it would have been impossible for the 10,000 Japanese Kwantung Army to occupy the three eastern provinces. Germany's victory at the beginning of the war made Hitler quite arrogant, and the attack on the Soviet Union was indeed Germany's greatest defeat in World War II. When analyzing the Soviet-German battlefield, military scientists believe that Hitler made the following mistakes, which directly led to the final defeat of the German army on the Soviet-German battlefield:

    The first is the attack on Yugoslavia, because Tito launched a coup d'état to overthrow the pro-German regime, Hitler launched an attack on Yugoslavia, although Yugoslavia was defeated in a week, but the invasion of the Soviet Union was postponed for half a year, which directly led to the German army encountering the cold winter of the Soviet Union without any defense, and the second is that when the Soviet-German battlefield was victorious at the beginning, Hitler stubbornly ordered the German army to attack Kiev, Stalingrad and Moscow in three ways, except for Kiev, The other two German armies were completely annihilated, and if the Germans concentrated their forces to attack Moscow, the shape of the Soviet-German battlefield would be difficult to predict. Third, before launching the war of aggression against the Soviet Union, Hitler was too arrogant to believe that the Soviet Union could be destroyed in three months, but did not equip the German soldiers with winter combat equipment.

    Japan's initiation of the Pacific War was entirely a formality. Japan lacked resources, and Southeast Asia, the source of oil and rubber needed for the war, was colonized by the United States, Britain, and the Netherlands. In addition, the United States imposed a steel embargo on Japan, which cut off Japan's war veins.

    Japan used the European theater of war to launch the Pacific War, and dragging the United States into the water was also a last resort. It was only the entry of the powerful United States into the war that hastened the demise of the German-Japanese-Italian fascists.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-09

    Strategic blunders. Germany should not attack the USSR. The Soviet Union has a lot of strength, and Germany should establish a strategic material supply point when attacking.

    It is a pity that Germany was not well established, the battle line was stretched too long, and the mechanized troops could not be supplied. Moreover, the bombing of Britain consumed too much ammunition, and in the end Britain did not hurt its bones. In the end, I got something to attack, and the strength of the army was not enough.

    The strategic blunder of the ENT super-camp military Japan was against China and the United States. The basis of the U.S. economy's energy production is that Japan cannot be compared, and fighting against the United States will cause the Japanese army to throw its forces into the Pacific, and Japan's reserve forces will not be able to strike at two major powers (China and the United States) at the same time. The operational strategy mistakes against China also dragged Japan into a protracted war.

    Japan's policy of warfare against China itself was to attack from the north to the south, but it was changed to an east-west attack. China has the protection of Sichuan with natural dangers, and the Japanese army lost the opportunity and was dragged into a protracted war by the Chinese people. So the strategy of the two countries made a big mistake.

    ps: purely personal opinion) ent super base camp military |||Objectively lacking strength, subjectively making too many enemies, and making strategic mistakes are not conducive to the development of productive forces, and are inherently unjust. ENT Super Base Camp Military |||against the whole world ...

    Is there a good end??? Japan lost the Pacific theater and had an early advantage and did not destroy the main force of the US Navy. In the end, Midway was fought and the command was wrong.

    Causes the whole world to be reversed. ENT super-stronghold military Germany blitzed the Soviet Union in the early stages of the offensive. Didn't seize the fighter plane and decisively captured Moscow.

    Gave the USSR a buffer time. At the same time, the severe winter cold of the USSR was underestimated. Lost in the most critical Battle of Stalingrad, dragged into the quagmire by the Soviet Union.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    Analyze them one by one? Let's start with Germany......

    Clause. First, the underestimation of its own victory, after defeating the British and French armies, Germany actually did not train the air force in naval warfare! This is simply an unforgivable mistake. If the Luftwaffe had been trained to escort the army across the sea with an overwhelming superiority of the air force, I think Britain would have lost very quickly.

    Clause. Second, if more support is given and the same support is given to Rommel and the Allies, Rommel can take North Africa, West Asia, and Asia Minor for the Third Reich, and what oil shortage will there be at that time? It can also greatly weaken the British naval superiority (Suez Canal......)

    Clause. Third, the preparations for the invasion of the Soviet Union were insufficient, mainly because the delay was too long, and the effect would be much better if it could be carried out earlier. There is also the follow-up to the first one, the invasion of the Soviet Union without defeating the British, if you can Germany the British docks, arsenals (Enfield, Vickers) and coal mines, then Germany will be much more comfortable, and there will be no air raids on the industrial areas when fighting against the Soviet Union.

    Clause. Fourth, Hitler's role changed, the early Hitler was mainly responsible for diplomacy and the formulation of general strategies, and Germany can be said to be smooth sailing during this period. But since the beginning of the French campaign, Hitler began to intervene in the command of the campaign, which was not his area of expertise. There were three very fatal mistakes, the first of which was at Dunkirk, where the Germans were ordered to stop.

    The second was in the Battle of Leningrad, where the order was given to encircle and not fight, and the third was in the Battle of Kursk, where Manstein's advice was not heeded......

    Clause. Fifth, Germany's choice of two very painful allies will be discussed later when we analyze those two countries.

    Clause. 6. Insufficient preparation for urban warfare and insufficient preparation for winter warfare.

    Italy: Bismarck once said of the Italians: full of tooth decay, but with a great appetite.

    Later, Hitler lamented that only the Führer in all of Italy was an ancient Roman.

    Garbage **, garbage army, garbage command, garbage diplomacy ......I don't know how to describe ......

    Japan: It's not going in the right direction, why is it expanding on land when it's throwing all its money into the navy? Just by defeating the British colonial army, you thought you were invincible, didn't the Soviets tell you how far you are from Europe?

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    The United States, the Soviet Union, and China are all big countries, and Britain is an old capitalist country, and it has some family backgrounds.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    The root cause of Japan's defeat in World War II: oil ** could not keep up. Other 1, the industrial capacity was not enough to challenge the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time, and the number of troops was not enough to defeat China.

    2. Not getting enough war resources in the war (mainly the Chinese battlefield, and at the same time, British Brunei's oil is also difficult to enter the mainland in large quantities because of the harassment of American submarines).

    3. The industry relies heavily on handicraft workshops and lacks skilled workers, resulting in insufficient production capacity.

    4. The national policy of going north and going south is used by the army and navy as a tool for fighting for power, and the national policy is regarded as child's play.

    5. Strategically, the Battle of Pearl Harbor did not fundamentally relieve the United States of the ability to intervene in the Pacific, and after the Battle of Kuah, Japan completely lost the ability to control the western Pacific (it is impossible to capture Australia again).

    6. There was no simultaneous attack on the USSR with Germany. This allowed the Far Eastern Military District of the Soviet Army to transfer a large number of heavy equipment and technical units to the Western Front.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    As everyone knows, after the United States dropped two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan also announced its surrender, and at the same time, China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression also ended. So most people think that most of the reason why Japan announced its surrender was because it was afraid of the American atomic bomb, but is this really the case?

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    In any war, the big one is always the economy. Japan's economy has been declining due to the economic crisis of '29, and it is no longer comparable to before. Originally, the purpose of waging war was to get out of the predicament of the economic crisis, but the opponent it chose was indeed wrong, and the direction it chose was also wrong.

    It should not compete with China first, and has chosen the three eastern provinces as its resource support points. Compared to the three eastern provinces of China, Nanyang is a better choice because of the better war resources there. But Japan has chosen China as a formidable adversary.

    And when it was already very hard to fight a war, the Japanese navy actually opened up a second battlefield to compete with the United States. In addition to self-defeat. I couldn't find a better word.

    Of course, the unjust nature of this war also determines its final fate.

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    If Japan had only occupied Northeast China, plundered China's resources, and had not launched a full-scale invasion of China, had not launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, and had not started a war with the United States, Japan would not have lost World War II, and it is difficult to say about the post-war world pattern.

  9. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    The national defense potential itself is not so great, but it stretches such a long front. But I also have to admit that the Yamato nation is an excellent nation, and it has worked with so many countries for so long with that little resource.

  10. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    The Emperor of Japan announced his surrender, the Emperor is the sun god of Japan, and if the Emperor does not announce his surrender, Japan will fight to the end. I recommend reading the book "Chrysanthemum and the Sword" to learn about the spirit of the Japanese nation.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    Without Germany's support in Europe, Japan is scum, so the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain proposed at the Yalta Conference that Germany should be solved first, and then Japan would be quickly solved.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    The people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants, and the soldiers are trapped in China to fight the West; The American-made nuclear bomb exploded on the head, and the Soviet army fought in the East for a million!

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    Because Germany was defeated first, Japan had no allies to fight against the Soviet Union.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    The United States dropped the atomic bomb, the Soviet Union entered the war, and China resisted Japan for 8 years.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    1.The battle line is too long, and the excellent soldiers cannot be replenished in time;

    2.the Pacific War, the U.S. intervention (the last two atomic bombs);

    3.The heroic resistance of the Chinese people.

    I think the main reason for the above three points is the role played by the United States in the Pacific War, because after the war, Japan said that the reason why they insisted on fighting the United States was that they did not expect that the United States would retain the emperor system after occupying Japan, otherwise they would have surrendered early.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    Why do I feel like it's a snow wind?

  17. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    The front is too long, the atomic bomb deterres.

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