[i]Countries officially in active coalition with the Axis USSR (until June 22, 1941, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)[/i] [url]http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Molotov-Ribbentrop_Pact[/url] Interesting reading concerning the German Russian pact. When Germany attacked Russia it ended their alliance. The Battle of Stalingrad was considered a huge emotional mistake on Hitler's part, Hitler wanted the city because it was named after Stalin and ordered his troops to continue fighting even when he was advised against it. I have no idea what they teach in schools now, but we learned about the Allied forces being the driving force in WW2 against Germany . Why aren't they a choice? [i]The number of prisoners taken in the west in March and April was over 1,800,000, more than double the 800,000 German soldiers who surrendered to the Russians in the last three or four months of the war.[/i] Allied forces numbers vs Russian numbers. A lot of interesting information out there concerning WW2, I don't know between the 2 countries who contributed more, the US was never allied with the Germans and they way the people stepped up to help before and after Pearl Harbor was impressive.

Ah america, the kid that always holds off until one side is winning already, and then joins that teams side

Without the US, we would still have won, it would have just taken longer. The USSR was a formidable machine that basically tired the Germans out, making it easier to destroy them. I think the US' main victory was in helping to defeat the Japanese rather than the axis as a whole.