Archangel357 said:
Ever think that that trend you describe is a REACTION, a backlash of sorts, to America bombarding everybody with movies in which there isn't one British or Canadian soldier in Normandy, in which two Americans win the Battle of Britain
Ever think that Hollywood makes movies for Americans, not for the rest of the world? Hell, Hollywood gives short shrift to
other Americans in most of the Normandy-based films; it's fairly rare you see much about Utah beach other than the fact that it was there. The films are almost invariably centered around Omaha, far and away the bloodiest and most heavily defended of any of the invasion beaches.
And I'll have you know that there were SEVEN Americans in the Battle of Britain.
Totally more than they needed.
Archangel357 said:
America's material support for Britain, the USSR and China were vital in keeping those countries going and in fighting shape. Without US help, they would have fallen to Germany and Japan. By the same token, without Soviet, British and Chinese soldiers putting up a hell of a fight, none of that help would have achieved anything.
Well, technically the Chinese never put up that much of a fight. They took a hell of a lot of casualties, yes; the Japanese were absolutely savage in Manchuria, but much as it pains me to say it, the Chinese were relatively ineffectual during the war. They did tie down a lot of troops that would have been useful elsewhere in the Pacific, of course, but Manchuria also provided a great deal of resources to Japan, so it was something of a wash.
The Pacific War was won pretty much entirely by the United States, ultimately. The Chinese did a lot of dying, but they didn't do much killing, to put it rather crassly.
As for the Marshall Plan, its effectiveness is rather debatable, with some people thinking it was instrumental in rebuilding Europe, and more free-market types thinking it actually slowed European recovery. The American occupation of Japan was largely beneficial, but it is often thought that the economic grants had less to do with the rebound than the practice of acquiring military hardware from Japan to fight in the Korean war.
),And our country wetted Stalins pants >:O
