• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    11 hours ago

    I won’t say Finland or Thailand were great powers but Japan had a decent showing so it’s not like they were alone

    Though it really only took USSR to beat Germany

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      5 hours ago

      The USSR was only in the fight thanks to lend lease and even Stalin admitted as much.

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      8 hours ago

      I think a major part of getting “beat” is they fought the USSR in the east and simultaneously the USA and UK in the west. I mean the war against Stalin wasn’t going super smoothy. But it went on since 1941 already. And it really went south for the nazis when the USA joined WW2.

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        26 minutes ago

        Outside of industry the US didn’t impact much

        The Western Front was going to be won without them due to German troop and supply limitations

        The US war effort was the Pacific and preventing the USSR from taking all of Germany (Allies made it in time)