World War IIEdit
Perhaps the most famous example of a two-front war was the
European theatreduring
World War II, when
Hitler's Nazi Germany had to confront the Western Allies on the west and the
Soviet Unionto the east. The Germans were unable to repel either of the advances on the two fronts and eventually lost the war. While there were other contributing factors, such as the insufficiency of the
Wehrmacht for a long war and the abandonment of
blitzkrieg tacticsbecause of
fuel shortages and a rising need to defend territory, the two-front war was an important factor in deciding when the German military would be forced to surrender.
The Allies, especially the
United States, also fought a two-front war, splitting their forces between the European theatre against
Nazi Germany and the
Pacific War against
Japan. Japan was fighting in both Asia and the Pacific.
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