The turning point in World War II happened in 1942 as a result of key Allied victories, but more importantly of German attrition. There were a few decisive battles but it was the entry of the USA that boosted Allied supplies while the German provisions ran down.
World War II has been going on for the past three years now and the Americans have just entered the war. There were three key victories for the Allies in this year. The first was the battle in North Africa for El Alamein. This was an important fight because the victor would have access to the Suez Canal and the oil in the Middle East. Oil was used for everything so everyone fought over it. This fight took place from October 23 to November 3, 1942 originally between the British and the Italian troops. The Italians were losing and lost Tobruk, Libya, and El Alamein to the British. Hitler responded by sending in General Erwin Rommel, nicknamed the ‘desert fox’ and the battle-hardened Afrika Korps. Rommel was a brilliant general and had retaken the territory that the Italians had lost. The current British general was dismissed and General Bernard Montgomery was called in to take command of the British troops ca
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The Soviets had just had their veteran officers purged so they had no experience. Winter comes around and the Soviets are saved. The Soviet Union could supply its army with supplies with the help of the United States. There were also many traffic jams because of the one lane traffic they were forced to move in. The war in the Pacific started with the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. One army was to advance down the Volga River to Baku and eventually the Caucasus fields. The Allies have now won the fight in North Africa. Leningrad was under siege and Moscow and Stalingrad were next. After two nights, the British were still unsuccessful and losing too many people so the operation was called off. The USA declared war on Japan and it began. Each stretch of land cleared of mines was 24 feet wide- just enough for a line of tanks in single file. The Coral Sea fight took place in May 1942 and was fought entirely by planes supported by aircraft carriers. At the end of this battle, all of the Japanese carriers had been sunk while only one American one was. The Russian forces under General Zhukov attacked the German flanks and made a pincer around the German Sixth Army within five days.
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