02-11-2017, 04:55 PM
(02-11-2017, 04:13 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: World War II was a much larger war for the USA than any of the others, and truly existential. If the USA had lost that war, it would have eventually been conquered by the Axis.
No. The US was stronger than Germany. Also Germany was losing by the time the US entered the war. Britain was a lot more powerful then than now. She was well on her way to retaking North Africa for the Allies when the US joined the war effort. By invading the USSR Germany was not engaged in a vast country with more manpower. Stalin's industrialization policy in the 1930's had yielded results. Stalingrad (Aug 1942 to Feb 1943 ) is considered by some as a turning point in the war in Europe and that was achieved before the US had accomplished anything on the continent.
Had the US remained neutral, Hitler would still have been defeated, it would have taken longer, but he would still lose. The forces arrayed against him were too great and he was no Napoleon.