# How did the axis powers last so long in WW2

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2015, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-the-axis-powers-last-so-long-in-ww2/709858/68 "2015-01-25T15:26:24Z")

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> [@TokyoBayer](#):
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> This post will reveal my lack of knowledge on the Eastern Front, but would there have been any way for Hitler to have gotten to the Soviet Union without directly attacking Poland?

No. There is no practical way to invade in the numbers needed without launching much of the attack from Poland.

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> Transfer German manufacturing and military technologies and concepts to Japan. Train Japanese generals on fighting modern armies.

Japan wasn’t bad at building things. Where they put their efforts, their weapons were top notch; look at how the Zero tore Allied planes to shreds earlier in the war. Japan simply did not have the resources to build weapons in the quantity AND quality to match the Allies, and had internal political rifts of the likes that no external advice was going to fix.

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