The German Supremacy Is Over | Colorized World War II

The Second World War was entering its third year. Adolf Hitler and his Axis allies continued their advance

on lands yet to be conquered.

In 1942, the armies of the Third Reich had penetrated deep into Russia,

fighting the Red Army in the streets of Stalingrad, while further south, other troops had reached the icy mountains of the Caucasus.

In North Africa, the Germans and Italians had crossed the border of Egypt and tried to get closer oil fields in the Middle East.

In the Far East, the Japanese had extended their area of ​​imperial influence far beyond the limits of their small islands

and were now at the head of immense lands and oceans which stretched from South-East Asia to the isolated islands of the Pacific.

Millions of people suffered under the yoke of the Axis powers who, to conquer the world,

reigned terror on the countries they occupied.

For those who continued to fight in the shadow of these new empires, the fall of 1942 would see a glimmer of hope light up.

The power of the Allies increased because the Soviet Union, the USA and Britain were finally reunited.

The balance of power was about to topple. In November, the Allies had finally been able

to launch their landing in North Africa. At the same time, the Eighth Army repelled the enemy from Egypt.

Italian and German forces engaged in the desert were now doing facing an attack on two fronts.

At the same time, Soviet soldiers, engaged in what they called the Great Patriotic War,

were about to launch a counter-offensive at Stalingrad.

The city suffered a terrible winter and the German Sixth Army was going to find himself trapped, without hope of escape.

Frozen plains of the Soviet Union to the impenetrable jungle from the Pacific Islands, the fight against the Axis was gaining momentum

and the fate of weapons, gradually, but inevitably, was filming in favor of the Allies.

When France and Great Britain declared war on Nazi Germany in September 1939,

most of the population of the USA was convinced to stay out of the conflict.

Many thought that the second war world was a European affair which had nothing to do with the USA.

They were so convinced that they opposed President Roosevelt when he started to take a few steps in favor of those who fought Hitler.

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But like the conflict experienced an escalation, Hitler could count on new allies.

When Japan signed the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy in September 1940,

the USA would soon be fixed about their role in this war.

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a devastating air attack against the Pearl Harbor naval base,

prelude to their invasion of the islands of the Pacific and Southeast Asia.

More than 2000 men were killed in Hawaii and the flames devoured the wrecks battleships and destroyers.

The day after, the USA declared war on Japan.

Three days later, December 11, Hitler declared war on America and after these years of neutrality carefully preserved,

the USA suddenly did facing a war on two fronts.

The soldiers were mobilized and the troops began to fly abroad.

The first problem faced confronted President Roosevelt and his staff, was to determine where their efforts should be concentrated.

On the one hand, the Japanese weighed a considerable threat on American interests in the Pacific.

Shortly after the attack against Pearl Harbor, they had seized the Philippines, from Guam, Wake Island

and a certain number other American bases. On the other hand, the German armies occupied almost all of Europe,