the big world wide effort to beat fascism ..........
fascinating insight
You mean Nazism. It didn't take all that much to defeat Italy. Funny that they use the term Fascists for Nazis, why is that? Could it be because "Nazi" was short for "National Socialist"? And of course that would be an admission that the Nazis were fellow socialists.
Interestingly, there may have been almost no exposure to the Spanish Flu here in the U.S. had it not been for our involvement in that stupid war.