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Biggest misconception of WW 2 was?
Posted on 2/27/17 at 9:33 pm
Posted on 2/27/17 at 9:33 pm
Germany declared war on US for no reason?
MacArthur was a hero in the Philippines?
Pierre Lavall was traitorous?
Roosevelt didn't want war?
MacArthur was a hero in the Philippines?
Pierre Lavall was traitorous?
Roosevelt didn't want war?
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Posted on 2/27/17 at 9:49 pm to sms151t
The bulk of American fighting was done on the Pacific front and not in Europe. Because of D-Day and the Berlin occupation I feel like many Americans think our participation was more Eurocentric.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 9:57 pm to sms151t
Germans bombed Pearl Harbor
Posted on 2/27/17 at 10:09 pm to sms151t
Firebombing didn't kill as many folks as both nukes...
Posted on 2/27/17 at 10:11 pm to MoarKilometers
What the English did to Dresden and what we did to Tokyo was amazing. The shear destruction those raids had are mind boggling.
LeMay was borderline sadistic on a Sadaam level at times, but effective.
ETA: I have no issue to what LeMay ordered either.
I had a U of A professor (summer school) once try to explain what LeMay and Sherman did were similar. I was like this guy is seriously crazy.
LeMay was borderline sadistic on a Sadaam level at times, but effective.
ETA: I have no issue to what LeMay ordered either.
I had a U of A professor (summer school) once try to explain what LeMay and Sherman did were similar. I was like this guy is seriously crazy.
This post was edited on 2/27/17 at 10:22 pm
Posted on 2/27/17 at 10:19 pm to sms151t
That Germany and Japan wanted to take over the US. That's the propaganda that got our grandfathers to risk their lives for Europe and East Asia.
Both had regional goals in mind. The Japanese took out US warships in an attempt to stop our intervention in the Pacific.
In reality, had Germany taken over most of Europe, it wouldn't have changed much for the United States. They would have been another counter-weight to the USSR.
Both had regional goals in mind. The Japanese took out US warships in an attempt to stop our intervention in the Pacific.
In reality, had Germany taken over most of Europe, it wouldn't have changed much for the United States. They would have been another counter-weight to the USSR.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 10:40 pm to sms151t
That the Holocaust happened
Posted on 2/27/17 at 11:17 pm to wmr
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That Germany and Japan wanted to take over the US
Made a decent Amazon Prime series about it.
Posted on 2/27/17 at 11:56 pm to sms151t
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Germany declared war on US for no reason?
I truly hope no one perceives it this way.
Posted on 2/28/17 at 1:25 am to blue_morrison
That Hitler went to war about Jews. The war was about states rights (being satirical and serious at the same time)
This post was edited on 2/28/17 at 1:28 am
Posted on 2/28/17 at 1:59 am to sms151t
The more and more I read/learn about MacArthur the more I'm turned off by him
That said I am far from having exhausted anywhere near all the information on him that is out there. I've never even read a book about him specifically but he comes off like he would do anything for glory, no matter how many lives it unnecessarily cost (his planning for the invasion of Japan for instance)
That said I am far from having exhausted anywhere near all the information on him that is out there. I've never even read a book about him specifically but he comes off like he would do anything for glory, no matter how many lives it unnecessarily cost (his planning for the invasion of Japan for instance)
Posted on 2/28/17 at 2:33 am to Wishnitwas1998
If u r from,little rock you are taught to worship macaurthur has from little rock. Probably been to his house which is a museum 10 times
Posted on 2/28/17 at 5:53 am to sms151t
That D-Day only consisted of American troops landing on the shore of Normandy. The D-Day invasion consisted of troops from Canada, Britain, Australia, Belgium, France, Greece, Czechoslovakia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and Poland
Posted on 2/28/17 at 8:01 am to sms151t
Lot of people think Pearl Harbor was the trigger for us entering the war. In many ways, that is correct, but we had been moving military into position and building up the military for a few years in anticipation of entering the war. We even had some troops on the ground in Europe before Pearl Harbor.
Posted on 2/28/17 at 8:07 am to wmr
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That Germany and Japan wanted to take over the US.
While neither country had aspirations to take the continental United States, the Japanese did take territory under the control of the United States in the Pacific.
Posted on 2/28/17 at 8:09 am to SCLibertarian
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The bulk of American fighting was done on the Pacific front and not in Europe. Because of D-Day and the Berlin occupation I feel like many Americans think our participation was more Eurocentric.
More Americans died fighting in the European Theater than the Pacific and the Germans were without question the more dangerous enemy. Fortunately the British and Reds were focusing efforts there as well.
Posted on 2/28/17 at 8:51 am to DirtyDawg
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Germany declared war on US for no reason? I truly hope no one perceives it this way.
There are some that really do and just want to forget the Axis Alliance/Treaty.
This post was edited on 2/28/17 at 8:52 am
Posted on 2/28/17 at 8:55 am to The Spleen
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We even had some troops on the ground in Europe before Pearl Harbor.
I thought the base was in Greenland as part as the assistance for the convoys. I know Chenault was in China before Pearl Harbor as well as "volunteers"
Posted on 2/28/17 at 9:08 am to sms151t
That sounds right. We weren't providing much, if any, military support as far as fighting. It was almost entirely support on the back lines, from what I remember. I've forgotten a lot of the details, just remember my mind being blown in college when I learned we already had a decent presence in Europe prior to Pearl Harbor.
I think our full entry into the war was inevitable, and Pearl Harbor just accelerated the inevitable.
I think our full entry into the war was inevitable, and Pearl Harbor just accelerated the inevitable.
Posted on 2/28/17 at 9:09 am to sms151t
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Germany declared war on US for no reason? I truly hope no one perceives it this way.
There are some that really do and just want to forget the Axis Alliance/Treaty.
Given his penchant for breaking treaties (non-aggression pact with Russia, Munich agreement re: Czechoslovakia), it seems surprising that he would honor this one when it served absolutely no purpose of his and significantly hurt his short-term and long-term interests. It gave Roosevelt a justification for bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe when he might have had a hard time doing so otherwise. Americans were already opposed to joining the European war even before Pearl Harbor, so without Germany's declaration of war on the U.S., sending U.S. troops to Europe might have been even more difficult to sell afterward when we already had our hands full with Japan. It also hurt his longer-term interest in reaching a sort of truce with the U.K. and the U.S. so he could focus on the U.S.S.R. His two primary targets for expansion of the Reich (among the major world powers) were France and the Soviet Union, primarily western Russia and the Ukraine. He never really wanted to be at war with Britain and the U.S.
Honoring his pact with Japan by declaring war on the U.S. was one of his more surprising moves, IMO.
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