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Why was control of the atlantic ocean essential to great britain's success in world war II?

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Support and supplies

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In the beginning of wwll America would give supplies to great Britain and to Germany so controlling the Atlantic stoped Germany of getting supplies.

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Britain was an island nation dependent "on shipping for the supplies it needed." Without access to Atlantic shipping lanes, Britain would have starved and been without war supplies from the Americans.

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