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Originally Posted by Jay100
Because Japan attacked us. Besides, how could it have been a war if the U.S. wasn't involved?
Also, we had to attack them over there so they wouldn't attack us over here. Furthermore, the Kaiser gassed his own people and banned satellite dishes.
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Wasn't the letter to Mexico asking them to invade Texas, which would then occupy us from entering the war and also would limit the amount of munitions we could give to Britain and France?
If only Germany held off for 50 years before sending that letter...
As a slight tangent to this thread, I always saw the Treaty of Versailles as a hosing of Germany. Limiting their military size, paying reparations, losing the Rhineland, all compounded with the Great Depression, just seemed like a hefty price for Germany to pay. Was this essentially to keep Germany as weak as possible, especially due to fear from France and Britain?
As a slight tangent to this thread, I always saw the Treaty of Versailles as a hosing of Germany. Limiting their military size, paying reparations, losing the Rhineland, all compounded with the Great Depression, just seemed like a hefty price for Germany to pay. Was this essentially to keep Germany as weak as possible, especially due to fear from France and Britain?
Yes. Mostly France.
During WW II the idea was floated to dismantle all German industry and turn the country totally agrarian.
Last edited by North Beach Person; 05-29-2009 at 05:45 PM..
Well i love history and right now i am in an American History class. i will tell you what i learned then i will ask my Q and you can give an answer if you want. well the chapter starts off as: How does a Teenager start a world war? well it goes on to explain that Bosnia and Herzigovina was controlled by Austria-Hungry and a teen assassinates the arch duke. they arrest the teen and find out Serbia supplied them weapons so they declare war on Serbia. well Russia protects Serbia and declares war on Austria-hungry. well Germany protects them and declares war on France and Russia. so Germany attacks belgium and Great Britain declares war on Germany. So we have Britian, France, and Russia VS. Germany, Austria-Hungry and i forget the other country. well we the U.S. did't really care. let them deal with it. Well Germany sent a note to mexico which we referr to it as the Zimmerman Note and Mexico said no. but why exactly did we get involved? What side was Italy on? why didn't some of the other european countries get involved?
We had no really valid reason for entering WW1, but the fatcat industrialists would have lost their ass if the Allies had lost, that is why we went in. Italy was on the side of the Allies, and suffered heavy losses battling the Austro-Hungarian forces in the Italian Alps, especially in the Battle of the Izonzo.
We had no really valid reason for entering WW1, but the fatcat industrialists would have lost their ass if the Allies had lost, that is why we went in. Italy was on the side of the Allies, and suffered heavy losses battling the Austro-Hungarian forces in the Italian Alps, especially in the Battle of the Izonzo.
Excuse me, I referred to the Battle of the Izonzo in a previous post, it is correctly spelled Isonzo.
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Originally Posted by albion
You could come up with myriad reasons for the attack, America's oil embargo on Japan after Japan's attack on China in the 1930s for instance.
I thought this was a WW1 thread.
I thought it was too, but people seem to be talking about WWII as well.
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