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Originally Posted by Hugh
, not to undervalue Churchill and Britain’s contribution to the Allied War effort, but he did not "win the war for us" - Britain won the war as part of an Alliance of nations, and Russia had a major part in taking on the Nazis, bogging them down on the Eastern Front, draining men and materiel from the Western Front.
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Of course Churchill didn’t win the war for us, he knew the one and only way we could win the war was to have the Americans join. That was his one and only plan. He got it by complete luck. The Russians had been demanding a second Western front be established for years before we finally got around to the Normandy landings.
What Churchill did was keep us in the game, he oversaw a successful North Africa campaign, showed to the USA we were a viable force to partner with.
Roosevelt and Churchill had been looking for a viable reason for the USA to enter for years, god bless Yamamoto.
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Originally Posted by jfman
And America made us pay a heavy price for it. The end of Empire and our place as a superpower. A financial system pegged to the dollar.
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It was over before WWII, WWI is what bankrupted the nation, and what the USA profited from that set them up for the next century.