Posted on 12/29/2015 4:48:29 PM PST by SJackson
Didn't try very hard, they did little to nothing to aid Poland, the cause of their declarations of war. And although costly to both nations, the offensive of 1940 was a German offensive, the French and Brits would have been happy to continue the phony war. With greater foresight the US should have foreseen future involvement, and attempted to exert her influence. Just as France and Britain should have stopped Hitler in the Rhineland, which was well within their capabilities. My understanding is that German commanders had orders to withdraw if confronted by any serious French resistance.
Clemenceau was an evil man.
Most of the inhabitants of Theresienstadt were ultimately gassed at Auschwitz. When Red Cross inspectors weren't there, it was as bad as any other Jewish ghetto.
“at Versailles, we tried for a very different outcome to the peace. “
Wilson gave in to the various and sundry demands of European countries to get their support for the League of Nations. He went back on his own promises of self-determination of peoples and his other points, and allowed countries large and small to exact their revenge with the blessing of Treaty.
“at Versailles, we tried for a very different outcome to the peace. “
Wilson gave in to the various and sundry demands of European countries to get their support for the League of Nations. He went back on his own promises of self-determination of peoples and his other points, and allowed countries large and small to exact their revenge with the blessing of Treaty.
Please explain how the US was going to save Poland in 1939. TIA
The Germans mounted a brilliant PR campaign (flying planes around, then painting them with new numbers and flying them over again). In any case, if the wish was for Hitler & Stalin to fight it out, then nobody was going to attack Germany anyway.
A threat of war would probably have sufficed; Hitler knew that more than anything, American involvement in WWI doomed Germany. They had no way to strike back at the power that was filling France with men and arms - and still had no way (beyond U-boats, which were not up to the task) in 1939.
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