Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
The biggest mistakes include:
Axis:
- Not finishing off Britian when they could have and consolidated European power.
- Invading Russia thinking they could finish them off before the winter and ended up staying till the NEXT winter. Breaking his pact with Stalin was a terrible idea.
- Japan's Pearl Harbor attack. American public opinion was divided on joining the war before this. After this it skyrocketed and mobilized the U.S.
- Exiling the Jews... many of the designers of the atomic bomb were Jewish Americans from Europe.
Allies:
- Appeasing Hitler
- France allowing Hitler to invade as to avoid confrontation
- Not learning from the mistakes of the first World War
- The Weimar Republic not having safeguards in place for a takeover.
- Stalin believing Hitler's non-agression pact.
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