02-03-2021, 12:10 PM
(02-03-2021, 11:13 AM)grampahol Wrote: Unfortunately most Americans think WWII began the moment we entered the war which couldn't be further from the truth. I'm just about convinced that if the war were fought today the Nazi regime would win just because we couldn't get enough fools to vote to pay a nickel in taxes to defeat them .. Our only saving grace was that Roosevelt was so popular with voters at the time he was able to throw the full force of our industrial output at it not to mention we had an enormous steel industry then and our technology of the times was able to grow by leaps and bounds in the 40s.. There are other reasons of course, but could you even imagine if we'd had the likes of trump or Moscow Mitch in power then?
That's all most Americans are taught, is our side of the war. I would wager that most of us think that we only fought the Germans, despite only entering Europe in 1944. We had been fighting in the Pacific for nearly three years at that point, island hopping against the Japanese.
