Zachary StewartMrs. KnopfB6 April 10, 2014Senior PaperDuring World War II many tactics were used to try to gain control of the war, but none were as effective as Hitler and the Nazis and Stalin and the Soviets. In fact both Hitler and Stalin used similar tactics for the war. Both used concentration camps; they both gained control of their country's government so they could make their own laws, and the third tactic they used was to try to take control of more land to have a bigger and better military base. One of the greatest tactics used during World War II that both Hitler and Stalin had in common was the concentration camp. Stalin's concentration camps were called Gulags and Hitler's were simply called concentration camps. Normal people who committed crimes were sent to gulags; rapists, murderers, thieves and thieves spent their sentences in the gulags, even political prisoners were sent to the gulags so as not to pose a threat to Stalin and overthrow his power. Hitler's concentration camps were designed primarily for the Jews whom Hitler drove out of Germany and captured in Poland. Hitler rivaled the Jews and a disgusting race that had to be destroyed because the Germans were of the Aryan race and the Jewish population was not Aryan. (“One drop of Jewish blood ruins the whole race”) There were two types of concentration camps that Hitler had, one of the camps that Hitler had was the labor camp and then he had the extermination camps. There were requirements to be able to stay in the labor camps and not be sent to the extermination camps, you had to be young and know how to work. Anyone who was old or had a handicap was sent to the death camps, and if you were a mother with children you were sent to the death chamber... middle of paper... the United States would continue to fight Japan and not concentrate about the Germans, but what Hitler didn't know was that the United States would join forces with the Russians and the British. When they did, they helped the Russians defeat Germany and regain control of the USSR (“BBC History”). During World War II there were many great tactics that all the leaders of the countries had, even though there was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, In 1941 or in time it was the combined forces of Stalin, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill that form the power three. But no tactic was as impressive as that adopted by Hitler and Stalin. They used propaganda and the loyalty of their men to help them dominate the war. These two leaders had in mind the best way to help their countries. If these leaders had not made so many mistakes during the war, they could have won the war.