German U-Boats were a major pain in the side to the allies. Germany sunk many ships in the early years of the war. The Battle of the Atlantic was just to get control of the Atlantic shipping routes and prevent supplies reaching Great Britain on germanys side. To fight back against U-Boats the allies made faster more manuvearble ships. US navy operators tried to intercept transmissions sent by the Germans. Another way we fought against them was the convoy system. which just had a bunch of boats all going across the atlantic at once. Roosevelt and Churchill knew the importance of intelligence in safeguarding allied commerce to defeat the axis powers. The Battle of Midway was the 1st battle we actually won against the Japanese. The reason we defeated them was because we broke there code and knew it was coming. Depth Charges were used against German U boats. Operation Barborassa. Many German generals didnt agree with Hitler on attacking Russia because they would lose a source of resources. And hitler didnt like the slavs which were the russians. He wanted the living space or lebensraum. For his perfect Aryan Race. He also hated Stalin. He made the German people think that Russia was gonna invade them. Stalin wasnt a bad leader as he predicted Germany was gonna attack them so they had a little bit of preparation before the invasion. By the end of the war 3.5 million people were captured and 4 million were killed by Germany.
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