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ST. PIUS X CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL
SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT

Hitler's Most Dangerous Weapon

By
Nick Muenchen

World History - 1
Mr. Aaron A. Parr
6 March 2014
During WWII, Germany possessed many powerful advanced technologies and weapons. One of these new technologies was blitzkrieg. Blitzkrieg was a new set of tactics which were used to easily defeat opposing armies who were attempting to fight in trench warfare. Germany was the first country to recognize how useful this new set of tactics could be. Germany quickly perfected blitzkrieg and trained its army in how to use them. Blitzkrieg was Germany's most powerful weapon because it allowed Germany to quickly defeat its opponents and take an early lead in the war. Germany's use of blitzkrieg was it largest advantage in WWII and is what allowed Germany to nearly take over Europe early in the war.
Blitzkrieg was such a useful weapon for the German army because they had developed the idea and trained their men to perfection in it. Before WWII began, Germany had recently been in several wars. These wars made the German one of the best trained militaries in the world. This well trained military is what would have allowed the Germans to perfect blitzkrieg. Their training would have allowed the German army to have the high level of integration between different portions of the military which would make blitzkrieg extremely effective. Blitzkrieg was also extremely effective for the German military because Hitler realized that surprise is one of the largest advantages in a battle. This knowledge could have been what lead Germans to utilize blitzkrieg to its full potential because they would have known that the surprise that blitzkrieg offered was the most important advantage tha...

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...ause it made itself extremely hard to stop through its speed and the utter confusion which often accompanied it.
Germany's use of blitzkrieg completely through off its enemies. For many years they didn't understand it and were unable to defend against it. Blitzkrieg tactics gave the Germans an enormous advantage over the Allies and allowed Germany to come very close to conquering all of Europe in a short period of time. Blitzkrieg allowed the Germans to surprise and bring chaos to the Allies. This gave Germany the ability to achieve victory against more powerful enemies. Germany's use of blitzkrieg also allowed it to take full advantage of its experience in war and combined all of its strengths. All of these advantages that blitzkrieg provided made it the most powerful weapon which Germany possessed, and for the early years of WWII, made Germany nearly unstoppable.

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