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[[File:looking at map eastern fron october 1941.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Adolph Hitler studying a map of the Eastern Front, 1941.]]
There were a plethora of factors that went into deciding the outcome of World War II. Political ideologies and national opinions were vastly different for the combatants, even amongst allied countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union. The industrial might of the United States was unmatched and Russia was the largest state in the world. Germany boasted brilliant generals and early in the conflict made great use of their innovative Lightning War, the Blitzkrieg.