What country's involvment was the most crucial to the Allies' victory?

I think it was the United States because they, like Russia,had the money to manufacture weapons and planes and crafts. ( Like ships, boats, planes.)

What do you guys think? We can make this a poll if you want.

 

I think it was the United States because they, like Russia,had the money to manufacture weapons and planes and crafts. ( Like ships, boats, planes.)

What do you guys think? We can make this a poll if you want.

Although without the UK in the war as the stepping stone onto occupied europe, the war would have had to take longer. The USA joined at a crucial time. Almost everyone else had been in the war two years already and resorces were at their limit. The USA joined bringing not only fresh production, but also a vast area for the production of food, arms and other materiel that was on a home front unthreatened by serious attack. It was that, as well as vast quantities of men and arms that really tipped the balance in the allies favour.
So, even though I don't vote for the US very often, in this case I will.

 

Credit where credit is due, The US was the armament factory for the Allies, no question. HOWEVER, and I'm sure I will take flak for this but the Russians provided the manpower. The Russians made sure that the wehrmacht was bled white in the East and for nearly two years took on the might of the Wehrmacht, almost on their own. I mean no disrespect to the North African Theater but it was a minor theater compared to the Eastern Front, at least until late 1942. But I went with the US

 

True. But you can pick significant contributions from most of the allied powers that we couldn't have done without, and it was a team effort, not a single player that won the war.

I'll be all tactful and won't mention which one on the list I don't consider made a 'war winning' contribution. That wasn't in the remit of the question.

 

I voted other, by which I mean that the UK, USSR & USA all made crucial contributions to victory & I can't pick one of them out.

 

Absolutely Right Plant pilot, it was a team effort. although from the way we post in here sometimes you'd be hard pushed thinking that

 

the motherland.

 

I would agree with that Gibbo. All of them did a great job (I will edit the poll to add this option in).

 

Ah, you edit the poll and I can't change my vote to the one I would have if it was there originally because I've already voted

 

I'll change it for you if you tell me which one you voted for and which one you would like to vote for.

 

I voted for the US when it was only single country options but did say it was actually a 'team effort'. If the combined choice was there at the beginning I would have gone for that.

 

Done.

 

Cheers

 

No Problem.

 

Credit where credit is due, The US was the armament factory for the Allies, no question. HOWEVER, and I'm sure I will take flak for this but the Russians provided the manpower. The Russians made sure that the wehrmacht was bled white in the East and for nearly two years took on the might of the Wehrmacht, almost on their own. I mean no disrespect to the North African Theater but it was a minor theater compared to the Eastern Front, at least until late 1942. But I went with the US

Not from me you won't - 75% of the soldiers lost by Germany were lost of the Eastern Front. If that lot had turned up in the West, we'd have had problems!

The US kept us in the war in our darkest hour then, even when she wasn't involved, and, of course, made large contributions of men and material when she was. And the USSR contributed little to the defeat of Japan - which is why I voted for 'team effort'.

BTW, let's also not forget the contribution of the Poles, French, Aussies, Kiwis, Indians, Africans and others who made efforts for the allies too.

 

USA/Russia/UK-Commonwealth (cleanses all sins)

Team effort.

 

I voted Joint effort, each had their own particular success that contributed to the war effort, to say one is more crucial than the other is a bit difficult, its true to say that one allied forces success contributed to another for a different allied force and so on.

 

Whatever Hollywood tells us,Hitler and his regime was primarily defeated because after 1942,Germany was heavily outnumbered in manpower and the huge war economy that the three major Allies could muster.It resulted in Germany being gradually being overwhelmed in terms of men,tanks,guns and aircraft.Crucial to an Allied victory was that the Allies were better coordinated and in agreement on a common political policy.The defeat of Hitler was the first priority followed by the defeat of Japan.

The manpower available for the battlefield and war production from the British Empire as it was then,the US and the USSR was superior to that of Germany and the Axis alliance.Germany's Axis partner Italy was soon out of the war and the Allied leadership must have quickly realised that when the going got tough,Italy had no motivation to keep with Hitler.

Japan offered no help at all to Germany and it was this lack of involvement of Japan's was one of the reasons why Russia was able to recover from the early setbacks in the first year of Barbarossa.As soon as Stalin realised that Japan would not threaten his Asian back door,he was able to concentrate on dealing with the Germans on the Eastern Front.

 

Absolutely Harry. the Fact that Japan didnt threaten the Russians in Dec 1941 was a significant boost to Stalin. Mind you, the Japanese had been thrashed at Kalkin Gol in 1939 so they were obviously reluctant to go down that path again. From an Armor point of view the Japanese were no match for the Russians as events in Manchuria in 1945 proved.