[Poll]The Biggest Mistake of World War II

[Biohazzard56]

For all the history buffs what was the biggest mistake of the Second World War?

No, Japan attacking Pearl Harbor doesnt count, Japan invading Indo-China in the late 30's lead to the US Embargo which later made the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Germany attacking Russia is self-explanitory,

If you have any other opinions, select other and explain in a post.

[dscytherulez]

Mistake to whom?

[Mr1337Duck]

I'd say it was them attacking Indo-China. They pissed us off with the attack right afterwards, and brought another very powerful nation into the fray.

[SilverLord]

Don't flame becuase I think this is correct.

Hitler made the same mistake that Napoleon did when he tried to attack Russia and went way too far into Russia and his supply lines were cut short and the Russian soldiers just destroyed everything as they retreated and Hitlar still chased them.

[Biohazzard56]

Originally Posted by dscytherulez

Mistake to whom?

Humanity.

[Infernus]

Originally Posted by SilverLord

Don't flame becuase I think this is correct.

Hitler made the same mistake that Napoleon did when he tried to attack Russia and went way too far into Russia and his supply lines were cut short and the Russian soldiers just destroyed everything as they retreated and Hitlar still chased them.

Pretty much...

[Incompetent]

Italy invading North Africa. If the axis had focused all its power on Russia they would have taken Moscow before winter. But Italy just had to drag the war down into africa and leech German troops and supplies, not to mention they could have commited there own troops to the Russian campaign. That and Hitler started the war a year early.

[Red October]

Nerf the Russian Winter!

[kreeten]

Don't forget that the Nazi bastards also froze their asses off. Bad timing season wise.

[Mag]

Nah, you just never attack Russia.

[Everay]

Originally Posted by Incompetent

Italy invading North Africa. If the axis had focused all its power on Russia they would have taken Moscow before winter. But Italy just had to drag the war down into africa and leech German troops and supplies, not to mention they could have commited there own troops to the Russian campaign. That and Hitler started the war a year early.

true, but its also true that we (allied side) attacked into italy, we saw them as a threat, which anyone with a gun is. so either way, italy would have become a southern front.

and i guess, its not humanities biggest mistake, rather, just the biggest blunder of the war, by either side, id also have to say that putting so much resources into superweapons, canceling superweapons that could have turned the tide of the warm and also putting so much resources into eleminating the ****. (for germany, they made the most and biggest mistakes of the war)

and when i mean super weapons, originaly they were working on jets, but when it seemed as if the war was gonna be over, 40 or so, hitler said cancel all that wont be done within a year, this included jet airplanes. and if you noticed, those jets reaked havoc when employed, but there simply wasnt enough of them.

[FlakMan]

I'd have to say Germany's invasion of Russia was the biggest mistake

[Red October]

War would have been over a lot sooner if that paranoid freak Stalin took more of the advice from his Military Officers. Even sooner than if he didn't kill off most of his best Military Officers. Who knows, if Trotsky got into power instead of Stalin...Warld War II could have been just a footnote.

[Squeeky]

Biggest mistake? Sending US forces to France to pail those coward bastards out.

[AztecWarrior]

The biggest mistake was the wording of the treaty ending WW1.

However, during the war, I'd go with the invasion of the Soviet Union.