Cause+of+Defeat+of+Germany+in+WWII

Wassim Alsafi

Prompt: Considering the period 1933-1945, analyze the economic, diplomatic, and military reasons for Germany's defeat in the Second World War

Thesis: Germany lost WWII because they were not economically ready, Hitler was to aggressive diplomatically, and they overestimated their military.


 * 1) Germany's economy was not ready for total war.
 * Hitler never entered full mobilization until the end of the war
 * Germany had just recovered from the Great Depression
 * 1) Hitler abused the west's appeasement policy to much causing him to fail.
 * Chamberlain's appeasement policies
 * Munich Conference
 * Withdrawing from Geneva Disarmament and League of Nations
 * Annexation of Austria
 * Moved troops into Rhineland
 * invaded Sudetenland
 * annexed Czechoslovakia
 * Non-aggression pact
 * invaded Poland
 * 1) Hitler overestimated his military strength and underestimated others.
 * El Alemein
 * Operation Barbarossa
 * Battle of Kursk
 * Axis surrender in North Africa
 * Surrender at Stalingrad
 * Allied invasion of Italy
 * Allied invasion of France
 * Russian invasion of Berlin