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December 3rd, 2011, 05:24 PM | #1 |
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The Second World War.
Because of people digressing from the appropriate topics on the What Books are you reading & What's happening this week threads. Where we've mentioned the Second World War & With next Wednesday being the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour. I thought I'd start a thread about the Second World War.
However there are some rules 1 Nothing racist, anti semitic or xenophobic is to be posted. 2 please keep to the facts.
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December 3rd, 2011, 05:26 PM | #2 |
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How about a general history thread ?
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The only "problem" is that history is an even bigger subject than everything else on VEF put together! I don't know if it's possible to have sub-categories ... so within GD&N we'd have "Military History" and within that "WWI", "WWII", the "English Civil War", "American Civil War" etc? Sounds a tad complicated, and it's okay me suggesting it, but I wouldn't have to do it!
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Well, BB is going to say one thing. Pearl Harbor was a false flag. The US knew it was going to happen. They needed something to get the public to support joining the war. No offence meant. I have spoken to people who where there.
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Here's the problem I have with the theory that FDR knew that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor and let it happen to get the US into the war. The Pacific War was not the war FDR wanted the US involved in. FDR wanted to aid Britain because he felt that Hitler was the bigger threat than the Japanese militarists. It can be argued that Hitler's unilateral declaration of war on the US was his biggest mistake of the war. Without Hitler's declaration, FDR cannot justify a war in Europe after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.
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The Soviet decision to move forces from Siberia may have been based in part on Richard Sorge's intelligence but it was made long before the Japanese attacked the US, UK and other Allies. And the Japanese decision to attack south instead of north was made at the latest in early 1941 as the IJN began very specific training to attack Pearl in the Spring of 1941.
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