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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Furthermore, ugh yeah no the US has very little to do with the victory in the Western front. You guys didn't even want to get into the war, and only really joined in once it was clear that Germany was weak. The British did far more in the war than the US, and the Soviet Union was instrumental in ensuring that Germany fell. The US's contribution, in terms of manpower, was, frankly, negligeable. [/quote]

A few flaws in your post:

The US joined the war when attacked by the Japanese.  Hitler declared war on the us a few days later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_declaration_of_war_against_the_United_States

I agree with you that American history greatly hides the massive contribution and sacrifice (11,400,000) of the soviets, without whom the war might have been very different. (this is not an endorsement of Stalin and the horrible USSR).  But the fact is the US suffered 407,300 military deaths in WWII as opposed to the UK's 383,700, so to call it "negligeable" [sic] is simply untrue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties[/quote]

As stated above I was referring to the Western Front, not the Eastern Front. And sure even thought they (ie US and Germany) declared war on each other, the US did not enter the Western Front until much later (November 1942), which was more than 3 years after the start of the war.

Anyway, the point I was trying to make (in response to that overly offended poster), and as you kind of said so yourself, is that the US was not the key driver of WW2 (as he would like us to believe), and very much overstate the contributions it did (specifically in regards to the Western front) [/quote]

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