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OpenStudy (anonymous):

who won the battle of the atlantic and why was it signigicant? please anwer quickly!!!!!!!

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I presume that you are talking about WWII, but you did not say. The following is from Wikipedia which you could look up yourself. The outcome of the battle was a strategic victory for the Allies—the German blockade failed—but at great cost: 3,500 merchant ships and 175 warships were sunk for the loss of 783 U-boats. The name "Battle of the Atlantic" was coined by Winston Churchill in February 1941.[8] It has been called the "longest, largest, and most complex" naval battle in history.[9] The campaign began immediately after the European war began and lasted six years. It involved thousands of ships in more than 100 convoy battles and perhaps 1,000 single-ship encounters, in a theatre covering thousands of square miles of ocean. The situation changed constantly, with one side or the other gaining advantage, as new weapons, tactics, counter-measures, and equipment were developed by both sides. The Allies gradually gained the upper hand, overcoming German surface raiders by the end of 1942 (withdrawn on Hitler's orders) and defeating the U-boats by mid-1943, though losses to U-boats continued to war's end.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

no actually its from world war II

OpenStudy (anonymous):

i figured it out thanks anyways

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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