How Did Nazi Germany's Attempt To Invade Russia

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AXIS POWERS John Wooden once stated that “Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be” I believe that this statement is true about the axis powers. We all know the axis powers were a monotonous group of countries that fought for what they thought was for the greater good of the world, and that they helped Nazi Germany grow stronger. You may think you know everything about the axis powers just because your in history but i'm wanting to challenge everything you think you know about the axis powers, and see how much you really know about the axis powers? While most think that all the axis powers wanted was the Jewish religion to be eradicated, actually most of the axis powers didn't even know that Nazi Germany was doing …show more content…
A big one was in 1940, Italy’s attempt to invade Greece.” In the summer of 1940 Mussolini unilaterally decided to invade Greece. 530,000 Italian troops retreated”. Another one is Germany's invasion of Russia. “ On June 22, 1941, was the largest military confrontation in human history, the front line extended 1,000 miles, 3 million axis soldiers. They attacked the Russians in the worst recorded winter in Russian history”. The 3rd and last one was Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. “ On December 7,1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor not expecting 4 years later that the United States would retaliate by dropping 2 atomic bombs in Hiroshima, and Nagasaki ( All the quoted information came from George Dvorsky in an article called “ The 8 worst mistakes made by the axis powers in World War 2”). Now those were the worst failures, but there are 3 main reasons why they were vulnerable to lose.”1. There was a shortage of raw materials among the axis powers. 2. The allied powers had learnt from their mistakes. 3. The axis powers had made terrible tactical mistakes( by: histryknowtail in an article called “ How the axis powers were
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