and since there has been a war going on for most decades then if that was true they would be the perfect country.apsham said:
Poll: Greatest American Decade of the Past Century.
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Just so you know, I too hate nuclear weapons as much as anybody (well, as much as everbody ought to), but to be honest, it's probably better that America dropped the bombs early after nuclear technology was discovered. Otherwise, we would have never seen what the effects of them were really like before other countries all over the world began producing them and getting ready to attack. True, there was the Cold War, but think what would have happened if people didn't realize what the results would have been like if we had actually gone to war.Mephisteus said:Greatest decade would be the first option "1900's - 1920's" with small things like Airplanes and Assembly Lines
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Arsen said:
If America did what was right they would've gone to war before Pearl Harbor (though I'll admit that this point is debatable), wouldn't have done the Japanese American internment thing and this isn't even talking about leveling two Japanese cities with freaking nuclear weapons.
I'm not saying I'm not satisfied with the way the war turned out, but to claim it as the greatest decade of the past century just seems... wrong.
Never mind that declaring war as something great does seem wrong on it's own.
No shit.. if anybody wonders how that era really was just watch an episode of the Honeymooners and in every scene where he threatens physical abuse... imagine a real punch to his wife's face.apsham said:
The United States knew exactly what was going to happen so did russia so lets say they dont drop bombs on hiroshima and nagasaki they still know the effects and the only reason they drop those bombs is because they didnt want a soviet mediated peace.cthulhu257 said:Just so you know, I too hate nuclear weapons as much as anybody (well, as much as everbody ought to), but to be honest, it's probably better that America dropped the bombs early after nuclear technology was discovered. Otherwise, we would have never seen what the effects of them were really like before other countries all over the world began producing them and getting ready to attack. True, there was the Cold War, but think what would have happened if people didn't realize what the results would have been like if we had actually gone to war.Mephisteus said:Greatest decade would be the first option "1900's - 1920's" with small things like Airplanes and Assembly Lines
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Arsen said:
If America did what was right they would've gone to war before Pearl Harbor (though I'll admit that this point is debatable), wouldn't have done the Japanese American internment thing and this isn't even talking about leveling two Japanese cities with freaking nuclear weapons.
I'm not saying I'm not satisfied with the way the war turned out, but to claim it as the greatest decade of the past century just seems... wrong.
Never mind that declaring war as something great does seem wrong on it's own.
I'm not American, but that does seem right somehow.goodman528 said:
The American 50s: suburb life, the breakthrough of television, cars with massive fins, 9-5 jobs, church on Sundays, BBQs on Saturday, baseball on the radio and a wife on valium.
Roaring Twenties, The Gilded Age, call it what you want, America was the King till the Stock Market crashed.
