Americans are taught this propaganda early and, unless they are intelligent and curious enough to pursue learning outside of compulsory education, they will never have this belief challenged. I was shocked when I realized how skewed the history education was that I received in DOD schools. History is one of my adult interests, thankfully, and my bookshelves are filled with WWII/Holocaust non-fiction.
You'll get some variation of what this woman said about the US saving France from most Americans, I believe. The smirk on her face as she said it though is an extra layer of douchebaggery though, I must say. Having people despise her has got to be a kink.
I'm an American who's well-read on the second world war. Want to know how the war would've ended withouy American? Me too. It would be a curious counter-factual but we'll never know.
If I were a guessing man then I think Britain would've sued for peace without financing from America and material to sustain the beleaguered island. That takes away nothing from the valor of airmen in the Battle of Britain, British sailors fighting u-boats, or British soldiers fighting across the war. The threat of cross-channel invasion was very near.
Material aid to Russia was also significant. Again, American support was critical to sustaining the Russian arms industries. The war in the East would've gone longer and if it did then the Germans would've gotten access to Soviet oil fields.
I don't see an operation like Overlord without America either. Even with America in the war, it was disfavored by the British. Absent America, I don't see it happening.
The strategic bombings of Germany would be on a much smaller scale. That simply means everything Germany did relying on manufacturing capacity would be scaled up. More rail, more logistics, more tanks, more aircraft, more shells.
None of that is propaganda. The narrative of the arsenal of democracy is valid. That doesn't mean we have to be asses about it.
You’re right but the fact that we had to get into the war in the first place is a other matter entirely after the First World War the pace Treaty blamed the war on Germiney and made them pay reparations that caused the economy to collapse when U.S banks failed during the Great Depression money in Germiney was so bad money was not worth anything this set up the conditions for a dictatorship like Hitler,people in were so afraid of going to war again that they didn’t stand up to Hitler when they had the opportunity
Yeah, I'll go farther. America should not have fought against the Central Powers at all. The reasons they went to war were entirely justified and predictable.
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u/Puzzled_Pyrenees 14d ago
Americans are taught this propaganda early and, unless they are intelligent and curious enough to pursue learning outside of compulsory education, they will never have this belief challenged. I was shocked when I realized how skewed the history education was that I received in DOD schools. History is one of my adult interests, thankfully, and my bookshelves are filled with WWII/Holocaust non-fiction.
You'll get some variation of what this woman said about the US saving France from most Americans, I believe. The smirk on her face as she said it though is an extra layer of douchebaggery though, I must say. Having people despise her has got to be a kink.