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| Staind.force | Jun 21 2005, 12:56 PM Post #16 |
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Notice how almost everyone said that it was a team effort.
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| ghost 5 | Jun 21 2005, 01:01 PM Post #17 |
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The revolution has begun with the Communists as the leaders
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lol Yup that is quite true. |
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| Woody. | Jun 21 2005, 01:02 PM Post #18 |
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@ghost, wasnt only refering too you @Staind, I'm not having a rant at all the other people its just things like this get me a tad annoyed
You make us sound small, like we didn't do enough and we had to get America to help us. England did their level bestRemember i ssaid sounds like |
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| ghost 5 | Jun 21 2005, 01:03 PM Post #19 |
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Yes but it is true that England would not have been able to do it by themselves. And I know I was just saying. |
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| Woody. | Jun 21 2005, 01:05 PM Post #20 |
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I'm not doubting it isnt true, I'm saying you make us sound small and America did al the hard work |
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| ghost 5 | Jun 21 2005, 01:07 PM Post #21 |
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Well no offense but compared to our land mass and yours......you are a bit small.....and I nor anyone else (that I have read) said that we did all the hard work.....we just did a small majority and notice we where called Allies[. |
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| Woody. | Jun 21 2005, 01:11 PM Post #22 |
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The way you said it made it sound as if you did the hard work as I quoted, and of course America would do more, your more than quadrupel the size of us! All I am saying is that England did all it could taking into account of the counties size, army size. It wasn't all And thats all I am stating
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| Lugiatm | Jun 21 2005, 01:11 PM Post #23 |
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I think that Europe could have dealt with Germany by themselves, the American intervention was just something fortunate that came along that sped up the prosess and saved a few British lives. |
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| darknessnl | Jun 21 2005, 02:00 PM Post #24 |
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I think that while the Europeans would've eventually stopped the Nazi progression that is helped to have them Americans there. And wouldn't have happened at all if the Americans had been supplying the Europeans from the start (oh my, that sounds quite ethnocentric, no? my apologies). I do think that the Americans turned a blind eye, and misinformed their public, that's not right. We should've helped. It was quite hard for hte Europeans though, for the Germans were dividing and conquering. A good percentage of European nations were under Nazi control and therefore their armies were "inactive". A lot of the success should be attributed to underground organizations and men like Oskar Schindler (I read the book a while back. Quite disturbing, very sad. If you think you know everythign there is to know on the Holocaust, you don't. Still a great read.) |
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| Jam. | Jun 21 2005, 02:46 PM Post #25 |
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Yep, you yanks really need to stop saying without you we would have been screwed. We did it ourselves once, why not again? i didnt think USA had much to do with the European war anyway- i thought they were more concentrated on Japan and it was Russia that basically ended the war by taking berlin. |
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| Tim | Jun 21 2005, 03:31 PM Post #26 |
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i belived we needed their help with the ammount of troops and ammunition and so on and so forth but i belive, tacticly we new all we needed to do, but wernt able because of the limited forces we had, so i belive we needed their help, but we knew what we were going and instructed america in how to help us Because if you think of all the planned invasions like d-day, where we did amazing, but couldnt have without more troops, ammo and matiral from america |
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| doug05257 | Jun 21 2005, 04:47 PM Post #27 |
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Really, the United States was fighting two wars at the same time. One in the East against Hitler, and one in the Pacific against Japan. Had Hitler decided to quit invading Russia, and concentrate on Britain, you would have ended up just like France - taken over with minimal struggle. Hitler was pretty much unstoppable for you at that time. Your cities were being bombed around the clock, and there was nothing that your military could do about it. Hitler basically put Britain under siege. If reinforcements had not arrived, then BOTH of us would have been screwed. Hitler didn't only want Europe, he wanted the entire world. Hitler obviously planned that his invasion of Russia would be a success. If it was, then there was only one last place to take over before his power would have been unstoppable - America. There is no doubt that had Hitler gained control of Russia and Britain, he would have quickly stopped to regroup. Hitler would have built an army that the United States couldn't stop, and he would have won control over the world, because after the United States had fallen, who's going to stop him? There would be none left with enough power to possibly pose even a threat to him. The rest of the world would have fallen. And, the invasion of Berlin was a joint effort between the UK, US, and Russia. Russia invaded from the east, and the UK and US invaded from the west. Hitler had nowhere to run, and committed suicide, unfortunately. I would have liked to see the man in court trying to defend himself... How pathetic that would've been... Anyway, haven't talked to you in a long time, Ghost! Hope you're doing well! |
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| Simon | Jun 21 2005, 05:03 PM Post #28 |
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bleh..
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Actually this is an interesting one. Without America we wouldnt have won the war, but i dont think we would have lost it. Before America joined Britain had won the Battle Of Britain. Now Hitler had said once the luftwaffe had won BOB giving them air superioty operation sea lion could be laucnhed and germany could invade. Bu we won it. They couldnt invade. British aircraft would slaughter them on the beaches. I believe britain wouldnt have been able to develop, they would have been isolated. The Germans would still be in control of France other europe. And we'd be a meaningless little itch to the germans that hitler could not scratch. |
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| ghost 5 | Jun 21 2005, 06:26 PM Post #29 |
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Yeh man been very very long......all is well dude. Couldn't be more happier....now where is my million dollars lol. Well back on topic. We will never know if Britain would have fallen all we can do is guess. and either way we would have gotten involved and if it was not for us you Brits would have fallen. So don't say we didn't do anything cuz we faught the entire Pacific war by ourselves....except Australia helped us.....barely but we fought that ourselves as well as helping you Europeans in the West. Franced saved us in 1776 and we saved them in 1945....and they still won't admit it. But it just seems like Europeans hate us for helping them out when they needed it.....so perhaps if there is another Great War that we may not help.....at least I will vote no cuz you all seem very ungrateful for the help. Not to offend anyone even though some of the stuff that has been said has offended some of us Americans. |
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| Curare | Jun 22 2005, 12:21 AM Post #30 |
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laaaaaaax.
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Just as a side note, I don't know a boatload about it, but I love WWII. lol :clown: I think Hitler would have done a fine job taking over all of Europe, had America not become involved. Now his death probably would have changed things, since no one else seemed capable to do what he was doing, but I really think he would have taken over essentially the whole continent, given time. |
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You make us sound small, like we didn't do enough and we had to get America to help us. England did their level best


10:45 AM Jul 11