Germany

Assess the extent to which military defeats contributed towards the collapse of Nazism by 1945.
The military defeats experienced by the Nazi's contributed greatly to the downfall of the Nazi regime. In the beginning of the war, Germany was on a roll, with many countries under their control within the first year. But as the war came to an end Germany began to come the terms with their impending loss.
Germany used Blitzkrieg attacks to invade France. On the 21 May, French and British troops were surrounded in Belgium (top of France). This was too much pressure from the German forces and in e…