What gave the allies an advantage in wwii?
The biggest thing that helped the Allies out in World War II was Josef Stalin and the Red Army. I once read the correspondence between Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill. While he was fighting the German army in Russia, he begged Roosevelt and Churchill to open up a second front in Europe to take the pressure off of him. Roosevelt and Churchill used delaying tactics, telling him that we were working on it as hard as we could, but it would take time. (Our policy was quite Machiavellian. We wanted Stalin to fatally weaken the German army before we entered the war. He lost 20,000,000 people while he was doing this.) Roosevelt reached a tacit agreement with Stalin that he could control Eastern Europe as one of the spoils of war. This was a reasonable price to pay to get his cooperation. After all, if we lost 20,000,000 people in a war in Mexico, we would not withdraw from that country simply because some foreign power asked us to do this (the way Truman asked Stalin to withdraw from Eastern
