Chiefgator
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It's difficult to say for sure which Allied nation played the most crucial role. The United States gave the most money and arms to other Allied countries so in terms of finances, we were the greatest Allied power. Also, there's a misconception that Russia was a great power at this time because quite frankly they weren't a great power militarily. The only thing that stopped the Germans from completely over running Russia was the vast territory they would have had to supply. It wasn't Russia's troops that stopped and occupied Hitler's troops per say, but on the contrary it was the Germans over shooting their own supply lines. Meanwhile, U.S. factories continued to churn out military supplies without any real threat of bombing from opposing countries.
In my opinion, it's hard to argue that the U.S. wasn't the greatest Allied power because I think it would've been the only country that had any chance of stopping Japan and Germany on it's own. Plus we had a "two-ocean navy" at the time. Meaning our navy's size and strength was larger and stronger than any other presence in both the Pacific and Atlantic
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