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Originally Posted by daswig
Ever hear of lend-lease? Ever hear of the US Navy tracking German ships and reporting their location to the Brits so the brits could attack them before the US officially entered the war? Ever hear of the US supplying England with american-made weaponry, while "officially" claiming to be neutral? Ever hear of the US shipping Canadian-produced military material from Hampton Roads to England in US-flagged ships because the British and Canadian flagged ships leaving from Canadian ports were being sunk? Yeah, the US wasn't involved officially until December 8, 1941, but for being "neutrals", we sure as shit did a LOT of stuff to help England out..
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Sure, no doubt about it. The US sold a great deal and profitted considerably selling to Britain.
As far as lend lease goes, that act was only passed in March of 1941, by then, France and all of western Europe had fallen, the Battle of Britain was long over, and Hitler moved in on Russia.
Too little too late for the lend lease thing.
Are you aware that the US also sold arms to Germany
Are you aware that guys like Henry Ford, Dupont, and even Disney supported Hitler, even after the war was declared
Read this....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...nazicars30.htm
Are you aware that American companies continued to do business with Nazi Germany until 1942, including Prescott Bush, Grand daddy of you know who.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fa..._excerpts.html
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Originally Posted by daswig
Ever hear of the Sitzkreig or "phony war", where the Brits and French sat on their asses while Hitler attacked their allies? Chamberlain was most certainly in charge when the partition of Czechoslavakia went down. He effectively sold Germany the Sudatenland in the hopes that it would appease Hitler, effectively feeding his friends to the tiger in the hopes that the tiger would eat England last. History has judged Chamberlain, and he ranks up there with Petain and Quisling. Your attempted historical revisionism is laughable.
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The so called phony war lasted the final months of 39 and into the spring of 40. All the while, both sides were probing for weakness, building up their resources and waiting for the right moment.
A big so what is your point.
No doubt about the Sudatenland, but not much could be done about it. Chamberlain could only do so much and it bought him valuable time. The fact of the matter was that Britain had a very diminished military between 1930 and 1936, and only when Chamberlain started building it up did things turn round.
I love and admire Winston Churchill, but if you really think that he walked in there, snapped his fingers, and poof appeared sqadrons of Hurricanes and Spitfires, you are sadly mistaken.