World War Two was the most diverse conflict ever to take place. From its starting point in central Europe it then escalated to North Africa, Russia and the Pacific. Due to advances in military technology, such as tanks, submarines and improved aircraft, battles were no longer stagnant and drawn out, instead conquests took weeks rather than years. In addition to technological improvements, Germany and the Axis Powers had developed radical new military tactics. Known as …
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…July 25, 1943 and Italy switched to the Allies. The defeat of the Axis powers by 1945 arose from a range of different reasons. Many tactical miscalculations by Axis leaders and new Allied technologies together with the strength and coordination of the Grand Alliance left Germany helpless by 1945. On the 7th of May 1945, an unconditional surrender by Germany brings the end to a six year long war which took the lives of millions of people all over Europe.