[Ancesthntr]

“France falling without much of a fight, turned out to be a blessing in disguise.”

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Yes. For all of the misery that it caused, and though it put Nazi armies on the British Channel, it kept the Red Army from making it to the Channel. We would STILL be dealing with that...as Stalin would have gotten hold of many of the German nuclear scientists, and von Braun’s rocketeers.

[dfwgator]

The Fall of France was also the turning point for changing the mood of this country from Isolationism.

Isolationism was based on the thought that it would be another WWI-type stalemate, and that Germany wasn’t going to become powerful enough to be a direct threat to the US. With France’s quick fall, that view quickly shifted.