 CodeJockey
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
 2521 Posts
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Saturday, June 02, 2012 11:59:00 AM
"if this happened today, people would say"
' the F*ck have you been? You've never heard anyone say they think the US uppers LET PH get bombed?
The summary forgot "'YEEEEEAHHHH!!!!' and then a navy guy kissed a nurse in the middle of New York..." |
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 notorious98
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
151 Posts
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Saturday, June 02, 2012 7:35:50 AM
@burritosb
Learn your history, buddy. The United States was ill prepared for war because of the isolationist mentality of the government at the time. However, in '38, FDR advocated to his military advisers that he wanted 10,000 military aircraft ready by '40. In '40 he sent 50 overage destroyers to Britain. Also in '40, the Selective Service Act was passed and the US began drafting and training troops. Then, in early '41, FDR got Congress to pass the "Lend-Lease Act" which sent arms to Russia and Britain with no repayment needed. It wasn't until December of '41 that Japan attacked and then Germany declared war on the US. The attack on Pearl Harbor just pissed off the country and made it possible for FDR to do what he wanted to do from the start. Had those things not happened, Europe would have fallen to Hitler.
Quite frankly, if this happened today, people would say it was a conspiracy created by FDR to get involved in the war (September 11th anyone? |
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 FredSpudman
Male, 18-29, Europe
282 Posts
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Saturday, June 02, 2012 2:43:09 AM
@imnakdjumpme Nah, the Second Sino-Japanese War was a war inside a war. Warception. Or something.
@burritosb Quite. The U.S only declared war on the 3rd Reich because Hitler declared war on the U.S. |
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 ExtraCredit
Male, 50-59, Midwest US
435 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 9:02:50 PM
Holy crap.
Not even close. |
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 Viking864
Male, 40-49, Southern US
817 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 8:22:15 PM
Germany was not the only country to invade Poland, Russia did too. |
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 Azaram
Male, 40-49, Southern US
130 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 8:10:13 PM
(makes 'whoosh' motion over burritosb's head.) "Humor, you're doin' it wrong." |
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 lawndartsftw
Male, 40-49, Canada
1815 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 8:07:42 PM
Ahahaha drating win !!! |
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 burritosb
Female, 30-39, Canada
64 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 6:45:46 PM
@turdburglar "But left out the part where America jumps in like a @ss kicking rock star and saves the day."
You're kidding me right? WW2 started in 1939 and America didn't bother to 'jump in' until 1941 and that's only because of the attack at Pearl Harbour. |
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 paddy215
Male, 18-29, Europe
1552 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 6:01:09 PM
Its like a WW2 version of Baldricks Great War poem |
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 turdburglar
Male, 30-39, Western US
1955 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 5:51:10 PM
HAHAHA! Funny and accurate. But left out the part where America jumps in like a @ss kickin rock star and saves the day. |
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imnakdjumpme
Male, 18-29, Western US
595 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 3:44:15 PM
i think the Chinese would consider the war to have started when they got invaded in 1937, but i guess we dont count it as a "world war" until germany started their invasion in 1939. |
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 clone_of_god
Male, 18-29, Europe
101 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 3:38:00 PM
ahahha im going to find this page to like it |
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FredSpudman
Male, 18-29, Europe
282 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 3:06:30 PM
@imnakdjumpme The Rape of Nanking was almost two years before the Second World War began, so I'd let him off not including it in his summary. |
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 8BitHero
Male, 18-29, Europe
5420 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 2:44:27 PM
Pretty accurate. |
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imnakdjumpme
Male, 18-29, Western US
595 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 2:36:35 PM
Left out the raping of Nanking, but otherwise a thorough overview. |
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 swoop408
Male, 18-29, Western US
1768 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 2:13:13 PM
Could you just do me? |
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 MacGuffin
Female, 30-39, Europe
2597 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 2:09:24 PM
Twitter has a lot to answer for. |
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 Buiadh
Male, 18-29, Europe
6651 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 2:05:47 PM
Quite. |
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bloomi
Male, 13-17, Europe
86 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 2:02:03 PM
Best summary yet! |
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 fancylad
Male, 30-39, Western US
2514 Posts
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Friday, June 01, 2012 1:54:56 PM
Link: Yahoo Answers!: What Happened During WW2? [Pic] [Rate Link] - That about sums it up--thanks, Ernest. |
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