Firstly How does one use the quote button.
Secondly when u say "It actually really helped Germany" What do you mean? What actually really helped Germany?
It was Britian that declared War on Germany, not the other way around.
The Suez canal was essential to Britian's effort to reach her colonies in the sub continent (india pak. bangladesh Burma) and her trade with them. Capturing Suez would have hurt Britian.
Oil was the major reason why Germany invaded Soviet Union. In those times they dont think like we do. If we want Oil we go and trade. When Germany wanted Oil they declared war on Soviet Union. The Caucaus region was among the major Oil producing regions of the world. (where chechniya, georgia is)
Rather than invading Soviet Union, germany would have done better to extract Oil from Iran and brought it through the Suez canal and transported it to Italy where it would be transported to Germany.
Hitler was not an idiot when he decided not to invade Britian. In world war 1, Britian and Aust. troops suffered a humiliating defeat in Turkey when they tried to rip open the Bosphorus straits by invading on Gallipoli and disabling the anti naval guns. Britian was a major global power and an amphibious assault would have been disastrous.
The only reason that the Normandy landings of American and British forces were successful was because Germany was forced to deploy most of their forces to the Eastern front to stop the advancing hordes of the Red Army. Three quaters of German casualties in World War 2 occurred on the Eastern Front against the Soviets.
Would the Allies have succeded without the Soviets?? Yes, but the War would have taken MUCH MUCH longer with horrific casualties for Allied troops who mounted assaults from Normandy and Sicily in Southern Italy.