Why wont Americans admit they didn't win World War 2?

Question

The government doesn’t claim it, but constantly Americans claim it. I’m not denying their involvement in the war at all, but what im saying is this, without the Soviet Union we would not have won, without the British empire we would not have won, without the French we would not ha........well actually we could have won without the French. But the overall point is no one country won World War 2, it was a team effort.
One thought I have is that because the United States only entered the war when it was convenient for them, they were not as exhausted as the other combatants, and thus believe victory was solely due to them.
Please no rants about how America kicked **** and would have beaten Hitler back from anywhere. I agree, all the Allies fighting kicked ****, but to keep on saying America beat Hitler, or America saved the world is like attributing a sporting teams win to the last scorer when surely it is a team effort.
(I guarantee every second answer will be an abusive American!)

Dont forget Australia, They fought Japan and held them back succesfully. But they definatly ended Japans war effort, but the pacific arena was not only fought on by Americans

Im not Canadian if that what someone was getting at, but i did forget to mention them, sorry.

Answer 1

Yeah it was a team effort, but in my humble opinion, the fate of the second world war was decided by the outcome of Operation Barbarossa.....

A decisive role was played by the USSR, USA, and Britain. THE decisive roll was played by the USSR, go ask its 20 million dead.....

Just to give you an idea of battle deaths on both sides check these out:
EASTERN FRONT:
Stalingrad: 1.8 million
Siege of Leningrad: 1.5 million
Moscow 1941-42: 700,000
Smolensk 1941: 500,000
Kiev 1941: 400,000
Vorenesh 1942: 370,000
Belarus 1941: 370,000
2nd Rzhev-Sychevka: 270,000
Caucasus 1942: 260,000
Kursk: 230,000
Lower Dnieper: 170,000
Kongsberg: 170,000
Rostov: 150,000
Budapest: 130,000
and others with less killed

Whereas on the Western Front
Battle of France 180,000
Normandy: 132,000
El Alamein: 70,000
Battle of the Bulge: 38,000

Answer 2

Hitler had Europe won. France had fallen and he was making his way into Soviet Russia; face the facts dude, without the Americans all Hitler had to do was cross the Channel and He would have conquered Europe, which he was planning to do and came close to inacting but was distracted when the Allies invaded north Africa. From then on any plan of attack had to be carefully weighed against possible attacks by the Allies. True the Allied Forces were made up of British, French, American, Canadian and even Austrailian(although they say very little Atlantic action); but the Allied Forces were made up of the majority of Americans and commanded by an American who later became a Presidant. You need to stop looking at what you want to see and for once look at the truth, without America we would be speaking German because after he conquered Europe it was only a matter of time before he came after the States, which is the real reason that we entered the Atlantic war in full force and the Pacific one later after the looming threat was over because if Hitler had been adlowed to conquer Europe he would have had unlimited resources and slave labor to carry out his war machine and the rest of the world would have been easy pickings. Get over your predujice and give it a rest.

Answer 3

Notice there was no Allied invasion of Europe until America entered the war. Up until Pearl Harbor, the U.S. had been sending supply convoys in huge numbers to England. The only viable nations that stood directly against Hitler were Russia and England, and until the U.S. entered the war, Hitler was still on the offensive, not the other way around. The point is, an invasion of Europe was simply impossible without America. If you don't believe that America was DIRECTLY responsible for defeating Hitler, then you aren't much of a historian.

Answer 4

I agree with your guesswork and personally refute any of the active opinions of some disgruntled persons saying that America's absence from the Allied Powers militarily would make even a marginal victory over Nazi aggression impossible. I would have to say that US could never single handedly oppose the veteran armies of a revived Germany at that time in 1941 and hope to attain victory which some might people would claim as definite falsehood. True, the Americans as history shows faced the odds of facing a very formidable enemy and for the most part organized the liberation of Italy and France against German occupation but has anyone ever considered that it was the Soviet Union fought out the most grueling battles on their side of the European Theatre playing just as big of roles as their American companions. The USSR had to put up with the most elite that Germany's armies had to muster along with the superior accompanying weapons stemming Soviet victory for many months on end. The Americans even purposely let the Soviets do all the hard work and fighting, an example of this is the US forces stopping at the Elbe to let the Soviets have all the blood shed involved in taking the German capital. I had to make this to everyone and I apologize if I didn't make myself clear, BUT TO ACTUALLY IN A DIFFERENT ANSWER TO BE CONCISE, AMERICA INTRODUCEMENT AND ACTIVE MILITARY CAMPAIGNS IN WWII DIDN'T COST GERMANY ITS VICTORY. IT WAS HITLER'S CONTINUOUS MYSTAKES THAT COST VICTORY FOR GERMANY. I MEAN HIS HALTING HIS PANZER DIVISIONS AT DUNKIRK, HIS SWITCHING TO CIVILLIAN TARGETS DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN, THE FOLLY THAT WAS HIS UNEXPECTED POSTPONEMENT OF OPERATION BARBAROSSA THAT KEPT HIM FROM REACHING MOSCOW. HONESTLY, HITLER DID NOT LOSE THE WAR BECAUSE OF THE FEROCITY OF SOME OPPOSSING NATION BUT ONLY TO HIS MYSTAKES. IS THIS CLEAR? SO NEVER ONCE NOW DO I WANT TO HEAR THAT AMERICA SECURED THE VICTORY OF THE WESTERN DEMOCRACIES INDEFINITELY! NEVER!

Answer 5

I take it you consider Pear Harbor just a friendly lil invite to a quaint luau Japan was hosting and America just took its' time RSVP'ing? Fact of the matter is, America did win its fight in WWII, against Japan. We did not enter a war for cenvenience, no abuse here but that is just the most idiotic things I have ever heard. There is nothing convenient about war. America tried to avoid being drawn into the war but Japan saw to it that was not the case. The allied victory was just that an allied victory. I would, however, love for you to ask the Jews who won the war.

Answer 6

World War II was won with British ingenuity, American money and Russian blood.

I'm not sure who said this first, but it is absolutely true, in Europe at least.

We Americans couldn't have done it all on our own, but the allied troops couldn't have done it without the Americans, either. You have to admit, the allied forces were really struggling when the US joined the fight. Hitler had France and was moving on northern Africa! The allied countries, especially by 1944-45, would have had a really hard time producing all the weapons of war (planes, boats, ammunition and guns, etc) needed to win WWII on their own, since they were so bombed to crap. The US was able to produce INCREDIBLE amounts of war supplies, simply because we weren't getting bombed all the time, and these war supplies, along with British ingenuity and Russian blood, won the war in Europe.

It was group effort, but well, we played a pretty big role!

Answer 7

This question presupposes an assumption that assumption that I doubt holds true. Generally, whenever the U.S. says that they won World War II, it is not to the exclusion of other allies that did play key roles. As a U.S. citizen whose father was in the Navy in WWII, I will gladly acknowledge that the Soviet Union put up a valiant resistance against the German army. I will glad acknowledge that Britain show remarkable strength in refusing to yield despite constant bombing from the Luftwaffe. I'll even acknowledge the role of the Maquis in helping push the German army out of France as quickly as it happened.

Part of what might be prevelant in a historical frame is that when the largest amphibious invasion in history occurred, the supreme commander of ALL allied forces was an American general and not a British field marshall. This can easily skew perceptions from the distant viewpoint of history. However, I believe that this is a non-issue.

However, I will acknowledge that your experience with others might be different from mine. I will agree with you that the U.S. was not the sole victor in the war. However, your main question is incorrectly presuming that we were not victors at all.

Answer 8

Let me suggest an alternative view:
The United States & The Soviet Union "Won" big...
Great Britain and about another dozen other European nations were devastated...Two huge powers survived and dominated a second or third European "Civil War"... (Outside powers!)
The U.S. "solved" the Great Depression and emerged as the world's great "super power"... rich, industrial, and unbombed/ uninvaded. Very much in control...
Stalin gained a huge "buffer" of nations & population in Eastern Europe... friendly communist "allies"... He never had to move back within "Soviet" borders... he litterally "absorbed" 1/3 of Europe and it's people??
Great Britain was virtually bankrupt... (male depopulation, loss of Empire, poor, Socialist, etc.
France was split, divided, poor, blood-covered...
Germany was burned rubble, helpless...starving....
(I could go on for hours...)
I must suggest a DVD Video series called "The World at War", cerca 1973??
It's the best, easy, History yet done... (1930-1945).
Hope this helped with "perspective"?

Answer 9

I do not think that most people believe we won WWII single handed it was a concerted effort by all. This question keeps coming up in Answers so I will risk the violent back lash that is sure to come. One reason some Americans may claim greater glory is that by the time America got invloved in the war Great Britain and Russia had exhausted their industrial capacity due to lack of factory personnel (they were fighting the war effort) and the horrible damages caused by the axis continuous bombing, German blockade, and basically war cost money. America was fresh and had a large industrial capacity. Prior to our actual Declaration of war we had the lend lease act FDR could not convince Congress to join the war but he was able to get the lend lease act passed.Our factories and shipyards were supplying guns, tanks, ships, planes,Fuel and all other items of war to our allies. Most of our active duty destroyers were given or loaned to Britain, our shipyards were building Liberty ships one every 3 days to carry supplies and we could not fill them fast enough. The people of Britain were suffering from a German blockade which was quite effective there were shortages of food, medical supplies etc. Russia did not get as much due to the fact that they were not as trusted by the American people but they did participate in the lend lease act as well. Russia's Airforce was antiquated and sparce so we supplied them with P-39 single engine fighters, tanks and artillery to some degree, again we were not very trusting of the Russians which is probably what led to the cold war. Everybody has heard of the German U boats and the supply convoys, what do you think the uboats were doing? They were there to stop the only supplies feeding Britains war effort (as in war over without the supplies). Where do you think the supply convoys were coming from? This information is factual and I invite you to verify it if you do not believe me WWII would not have been won if it was not for the USA. It is also equally true that we did not nor could we have won it on our own either. Our military man power was not sufficient to have carried the battle alone and I am getting tired of writing this so that is that. 62 million people total perished during WWII so I think it is safe to say it was not humanity's finest hour. And your comment about every other post will be an abusive American is tiresome. If you scan alot of the posts on Yahoo Answers you will find that we (Americans) are not held in high regard and frankly most posts about us are plainly rude and hateful so the abusive comments you are referring to is probably because we are finding it more difficult to stomach your posts without adding a barb of our own.l have done my best to answer your question without hateful content but watch the replies to see who is truely abusive.

Answer 10

Without the help of American forces, the war would not go well. Their significance impacted the war greatly. However, it was a team effort, which is why the end result favored the Allied side.

The Axis did not have any coordinated team effort among their own allies such as Japan, which was why they were defeated.