We Americans won World War II - if not for us, the war would have dragged on for another decade and it would have only ended because each side ran out of bullets.
We American GI’s won World War II, sure we’ll share the glory with Churchill and our buddies the French, but it was US, the U.S. of A. so stop giving Churchill so much credit... Churchill didn’t carry a single rifle - the current queen of England drove an ambulance, and we Yanks won the war.
No one will convince me otherwise.
You’re an ass. In his younger days Churchill fought and was nearly killed in Africa. Read a book.
I suspect that “we” Americans were too young, or not even yet born, to have won the War. That you deny Churchill’s role doesn’t say a bunch for you credentials, Professor.
A long standing argument.
I personally think that it is highly unlikely that the US could have stayed out of WW2 for much longer anyway. The only real chance was if the Japanese had not attacked pearl harbor. Therefore, what you are really asking is could the combined forces of the British Empire (as it was then) and the USSR (as it was then) together have defeated Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the various minor Axis powers.
No one will ever know of course. I personally (and I am a Brit so I am no doubt biased) think that in the end we would have ground them down. It would have been more difficult and it certainly would have taken longer, and I can’t imagine what kind of world we would be living in now - probably the iron curtain would still be up and somewhere west of Paris. But if you think about it, the Nazis had pretty much all of western europe in thrall - eventually all those Poles and Greeks and Frenchmen and Danes and Norweigans and Belgians and Dutch are going to rise up against them eventually. You can’t keep all of them under the thumb forever. The only real problem I can see is if the Nazis had managed to develop the atom bomb first, which they might have if the US and Britain weren’t pooling their scientific knowledge.
For someone claiming to be a professor you are singularly ill informed!
Churchill most certainly did go to war, both as a war correspondent and as a soldier, where he was noted for his bravery..
He saw action up on the North West Frontier (where Al Qaeda is hiding out now) fighting the Pashtun, he served under Kitchener in The Sudan. He took part in the last Cavalry charge of the British army at Ladysmith. He was also captured by the Boers in South Africa and escaped. He Commanded the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars in the Territorial Service and served on the Western Front of WW I as Commander of the 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers
And the Yanks didn't win the war on their own..so don't go off on THAT tack..
One could point out that Roosevelt lost the peace, by doling out half of Europe to his commie buddies the Russians.
The State Department is still overrun with his Commie legacy.