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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
The fact remains that if America and her millions of troops had not fought in Europe, Germany would have conquered France (he sort of had already) and likely England, which he was bombing to bits in The Blitz (7th September 1940 to New Year's Day 1941). Remember, nothing going on in Europe at that time was really any of America's concern, though Hitler was an evil person. America's beef was with Japan. Remember, Anerica declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941. On December 11, Hitler and Mussolini declared war on America and the U.S. Congress responded in kind on December 11,1941. I just do not see how you can argue that the infusion of the US' 12 million + troops did not turn the tide and save the day  |
You can replace that with the USSR and again say that Germany would have conquered Europe. The point being that we're not being constantly reminded of how great they are by Russians tooting their own horn.
Remember, nothing going on in Europe at that time was really any of America's concern, though Hitler was an evil person. America's beef was with Japan.
Exactly! So who was there fighting Germany? The invisible empire? America entered the film at the end and hurled it across the finish line but still always acts like it had the starring role, like it wasn't all set up for them. If america was fighting a war with whatever country you like for years then finally asked for support from another direction to combine and take down the enemy, there's no way america would let that other country dance about like they were heroes of the world we'd always be reminded of how it was america's war and their effort.
Fine whatever. WWII was betweeen Germany and the USA, nothing happened before then and the good old usa saved the world.
btw you don't need to explain what the blitz is to a british person.