As the war progressed, Allied armies began using combined arms formations and deep penetration strategies that Germany had used in the opening years of the war.

Adam Smith argued in the Wealth of Nations that, as societies progressed from hunter gatherers to industrial societies, the spoils of war would rise but that the costs of war would rise further, making war difficult and costly for industrialised nations.

Other problems with Japan's fighter aircraft also became apparent as the war progressed, such as their lack of armor and light armament, which made them inadequate as bomber interceptors or ground-attack planes — roles Allied fighters excelled at.

After Heydrich's death in June 1942, and as the war progressed, Müller's power and the independence grew substantially.

As the war progressed, two factors arose that led to a revolution in Hergé's style.

As the war progressed more air fleets were created as the areas under German rule expanded.

As the war progressed, Gandhi intensified his demand for independence, calling for the British to Quit India in a speech at Gowalia Tank Maidan.

Though many nations ' armored formations included an organic mechanized infantry component at the start of World War II, the proportion of mechanized infantry in such combined arms formations was increased by most armies as the war progressed.

As the war progressed, military authorities placed greater stress on the development of air-cooled engines, which they felt had more immunity to damage from weather, shellfire and misuse.

As the war with Ming Dynasty progressed and the Han Chinese population under Manchu rule increased, Hong Taiji created a separate branch of Han Banners to draw on this new source of manpower.

As the uprising progressed into civil war, a growing number of soldiers began to defect from the Syrian Armed Forces and came together under the banner of the Free Syrian Army.

As the war progressed, most nations developed self-propelled artillery.

The war in the west progressed better in 1145, with the king recapturing Faringdon Castle in Oxfordshire.

As the war slowly progressed, Grant continued to extend Robert E. Lee's entrenchment defenses southwest of Petersburg, in an effort to capture vital railroad links.

As the war progressed the wire was used in shorter lengths that were easier to transport and more difficult to cut with artillery.

As the war progressed, with no hope of joining the rebellion due to power of the Royal Navy ( in the letter he had addressed to Bermudians soliciting the theft of the gunpowder, George Washington had written We would not wish to in volve you in an Opposition, in which from your Situation, we should be unable to support you: -- We knew not therefore to what Extent to sollicit your Assistance in availing ourselves of this Supply ), with increasing numbers of Amercan loyalists in Bermuda ( such as the privateer Bridger Goodrich ), and with their economic opportunities dwindling, Bermudians overcame their sympathies for their erstwhile countrymen and unleashed their privateers ( which, by the middle of the 18th Century already outnumbered those of any of the mainland colonies ) upon American shipping.

With enrollment in the armies growing as the war progressed and numbers of resistance falling after Operation Tempest, the size of Polish armed contribution can be estimated, at its peak, as one million men.

The confusion often stems from the fact that as war progressed, some resistance movements grew larger-and other diminished.

As the war progressed, he moved his attack to its conduct by the generals, who, he said ( basing his words on reports by William Burdett-Coutts in The Times ), were not providing for the sick or wounded soldiers and were starving Boer women and children in concentration camps.

The war started as an insurgency and progressed to a large scale conflict with the mixture of guerrilla and conventional warfare.

As the war progressed, many of the young Nisei, Japanese immigrants ' children who were born with American citizenship, volunteered to serve in the United States military.

Having lost 27 million people in the war, the Soviet Union was determined to destroy Germany's capacity for another war, and pushed for such in wartime conferences.

As the war began to wind down with Germany's surrender in May 1945, the team parlayed Brown's ties to college football and the military to build its roster.

This overlooked Germany's strategic position and ignored how the efforts of individuals were somewhat marginalized on the front, since the belligerents were engaged in a new kind of war.

The 08 / 15 film trilogy of 1954 – 55 concerns a sensitive young German soldier who rather be playing the piano who fights on the Eastern Front without understanding why, and no mention is made of genocidal aspects of Germany's war in East.

With American entry into the war in 1917 on the Allied side, and the failure of Germany's spring offensive, Germany was out of manpower.

The entry of the United States into the war – following Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare – marked a decisive turning-point against Germany.

No one doubted Germany's economic and engineering prowess ; the question was how long bitter memories of the war would cause Europeans to distrust Germany, and whether Germany could demonstrate it had rejected totalitarianism and militarism and embraced democracy and human rights.

In November 1918 — while Himmler was still in training — the war ended with Germany's defeat, denying him the opportunity to become an officer or see combat.

In the spring of 1945, Germany's chances of winning the war and Himmler's relationship with Hitler had both deteriorated.

Germany's Invasion of Poland in 1939 finally caused France and Britain to declare war against Germany.

In fact, one or two stories published before the war had been critical of fascism ; most prominently, King Ottokar's Sceptre showed Tintin working to defeat a coup attempt that could be seen as an allegory of the Anschluss, Nazi Germany's takeover of Austria.

In the second, from 1939 – 43, Ribbentrop attempted to persuade other states to enter the war on Germany's side or at least maintain pro-German neutrality.

In the aftermath of Munich, Hitler was in a violently anti-British mood caused in part by his rage over being " cheated " out of the war to " annihilate " Czechoslovakia that he very much wanted to have in 1938, and in part by his realization that Britain would neither ally herself nor stand aside in regard to Germany's ambition to dominate Europe.

Because of Ribbentrop's firmly held views that Britain was Germany's most dangerous enemy and that an Anglo-German war was thus inevitable, it scarcely mattered to him when his much desired war with Britain came.

During the same meeting in East Prussia with Count Ciano, Pierre Laval arrived and promptly agreed to Hitler's and Ribbentrop's demands that he place French police under the command of more radical anti-Semitics and conscript and send hundreds of thousands of French workers to work in Germany's war industry.

After Germany's defeat, Gustav was senile and incapable of standing trial, and the Nuremberg Military Tribunal convicted Alfried as a war criminal in the Krupp Trial for " plunder " and for his company's use of slave labor.

The air war on the Western Front received the most attention in the annals of military aviation, since it produced aces such as Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the Red Baron, Ernst Udet, Hermann Göring, Oswald Boelcke, Werner Voss, and Max Immelmann ( the first airman to win the Pour le Mérite, Imperial Germany's highest decoration for gallantry, as a result of which the decoration became popularly known as the Blue Max ).

* 1945 – World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war.

Even after June 1940, official connections between Opel and America were not broken and monetary gain continued throughout the war which was controlled by the J. P Morgan firm, the Rüsselsheim plant was never given a major role in Germany's war preparations.

Initially, of course, it had appeared that the war would be a short one settled in Germany's favor.

The December 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Germany's declaration of war against the United States gave the United States the leverage it needed, however, to force Moríñigo to commit himself publicly to the Allied cause.