My History teacher assigned me to make a project about Axis and their slow, but methodical fall from the ever so desired victory. I'm assigned to talk about secret operations, interventions executed from the Allies to make the Axis dream crumble into little pieces.
An example of such an operation is the double agent who intentionally misled the Nazis into thinking that the bombs which are supposed to land on London are landing there, but in fact are landing just short of their target - or the operation where the Allied leave a "Classified" document in Portugal (correct me if I'm mistaken) which the Nazis found that contained information about where the Allies were going to strike next, thus creating a diversion and fooling the Nazis into the shrewd plan that was influential to the flow of the war.
Operations and interventions like these are what I'm looking for, not something that is already known in history books (especially for high school standards), so what better way to learn something new than to ask fellow Historians?
With that being said, I thank you for taking time of your day to read this post, I appreciate it a lot.
Pardon for my English as it is not my native language.
Have a nice day!
Hi,
Most historians would approach your question the other way, I think. You are starting with a thesis ("The Allies won World War II by covert operations") and then wanting to find evidence. Historians would gather evidence and say, "Okay, according to all these things, this is why the Allies won World War II."
There are certainly some uses of deception as warfare tactics in World War II--the construction of a fake "invasion fleet" across from Pas de Calais when the real target was Normandy is probably the most famous. But overall, I encourage you to read up on different scholars' opinions of the reasons for the Allied victory. Then you can write your essay based on those explanations and their evidence.