At full strength who was more powerful in ww2 Germany or US?

Two words: Manhattan Project


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At full strength who was more powerful in ww2 Germany or US?

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The United States never attained “full strength”. If you’re asking which nation was stronger at their strongest during the war, the answer is the United States.

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Two words: Manhattan Project

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I’m sure some of those men would have liked to jam a fat boy up Hitler’s arse.

if hitler doesnt attack russia and japan doesnt attack pearl harbor russia and USA sit out ww2 and germany solidifies its power and control of all of europe

The timelines are not really aligned, but at full strength the USA was more powerful than Germany. This is also removing the nuclear equation.

The US had 50 million more people than Germany in 1940, the ability of those 50 million to contribute to the war effort would be enough. The US is also more abundant in natural resources for the production of weapons.

Germany did have us beat in scientist obviously, but we would eventually be able to overcome that.

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Gotta consider the resources that Germany was using on the Eastern Front. We were fighting less than half of Germany's army

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One must also consider the amount of resources that the United States was using in the Pacific. By 1944, we had nearly 3.7 million servicemen and women deployed in that theater of the war.

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Gotta consider the resources that Germany was using on the Eastern Front. We were fighting less than half of Germany's army

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Were we not also in the Pacific as well?

If you look at technical efficiency and strength of troops/general/etc. It would probably be Germany at the beginning of the war. We were no where near ready at the beginning of WWII. However, there are a few thing to take into account. Our population was far greater. The probability of attack on the US Mainland was highly unlikely. Maybe a random Sub, but no one was invading us at that time. So We may have lost some initial battles, but our infrastructure would be intact and we had the natural resources to eventually starve Germany out. We could have done the same to any nation, that is why it was such a horrible plan for Japan to attack us. The only thing that would have worked was if Hitler had been able to develop his weapons program before we did.

We fought a 2 front war also and beat Japan with the Pacific front getting way less material than the European Front plus we were arming our allies at the same time.