Why does everyone say America defeated the Nazis when Canadians & the communists were fighting 2 years earlier

Answer 1

Good point. I think the Germans lost the war when they invaded Russia during WWII. They had a peace deal with the Russians and they could have just taken care of the Brits and than focused completely on Russia. Instead they initiated a two-front war which was not needed. The United States entering the war was irrelivant. The Brits and Russians would have defeated the Germans without the Yanks help. The Yanks did help end the war sooner though.

Answer 2

There is absolutely not even the slightest doubt that winning the western front of the war had very little to do with much done by America.
I think it's the absolute height of complete ignorance and stupidity that anyone would think the Yanks did much!!
I mean, I'm an American 'fan', if you want to put it that way, though I'm Aussie.

But I would call it the height of absolute arrogance and complete ignorance of the first 3 or 4 years of the war for any American to claim their victory on the Western front!
Sure, ofcourse, financial help while the Allied forces had to concentrate their energies on actually doing the bullwork of the fighting would have been greatly contributory.
But the Yanks had not learnt much from their experience of the WW1, wherein they waited til almost the 11th hour to bother helping!!
It's very easy to read books printed in our day about something that happened 60 or 70 years ago!
But if you ask the people who actually lived through it all, you'll know there are distinct differences re reality.
At that point the US was hardly any more advanced than most of the other Allied nations.
As someone else stated, they basically "dropped the straw that broke the camel's back" ... and often, in life, that's all that it takes!
That extra bit!

The Brits, Russians, Aussies and general Allied forces were well and truly in command by that point ... the show was all but over!

Where America did hold much greater sway was in finishing the War on the eastern front - Japan.

Now, as for the Canadians [and might I say here too, that as a lad Canada was my favourite country and I have been there], I don't know about their efforts then, but their big lack lustre performance today is probably largely due to the fact that the country is [outside point of view] largely split down the middle!!
You know ... like boxing: "In the blue corner we have the Frenchies, weighing in at ....; in the red corner we have the English ..."
French in the east ... they are interested in governing the country and running the show
In the west we have the Anglos; they are just happy leading their own individual lives and mostly farming the place.

Well, the trouble with the Frenchies running the show is just that!!
They simply follow the French!
What France does, they do it!!
So, overall, we have a rather weakgutted performance from the potentially lovely nation of Canada at the moment.

Answer 3

Wrong on all counts. First I haven't heard anyone say America defeated the Nazis, it was an Allied effort. Secondly the Soviet Union had a non agression pact with Germany until Germany invaded the USSR in late 1941, just a few months before the US entered the war after the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor. Finally besides the USSR and the US, Great Britain had more to do with the defeat of the Nazis than any other country.

Answer 4

Omg..can't believe some idiot said the brits and commies could have handled hitler..

England could barely handle defending England, much less reconquering continental europe. lmfao

As far as the communists go..Stalin and Kruschev were both asking eisenhower constantly when he would open up a western front so that the soviet line would have a chance of not collapsing.

If America had not of stepped in..correction, if Japan had left Pearl Harbor alone then that stupid brit would be speaking german right now, and the cuban missile crisis never would have occurred..actually it might be a nicer world except for the whole holocaust thing.

Canada was pretty much a nonentity in the war, only augmenting existing troop formations where necessary. They were as worthless then as they are now. It's strange that more of the peaceloving countries of the world..france for example..do not back up their words with peacekeeping forces of their own. Right now the size of the peacekeeping force in lebanon is being bickered over because europe as usual doesn't want to do anything, they just want to critisize america and israel for defending their own interests.

Sigh..what a waste of a question. +2

Answer 5

Because without American military power (not to mention the billions of dollars' worth of aid we gave to Britain and Russia), the Nazis, with their superior armed forces (on a man-to-man basis), would likely have won the war against Britain and Russia, or at least driven them into acquiesence of a European Nazi empire.

America was the only Ally handling the Japanese successfully. The Imperialist Japanese forces had long since driven any major contingion of the British out of Southeast Asia. If the British had to concentrate their already thinly-stretched forces out to battle the Japanese alone (if America weren't involved in the war), they never would have been able to face the Nazis in North Africa, the Mediterranean (Crete, Greece, et cetera), or their home islands for that matter -- they would have been on the defensive rather than the offensive.

The only other major power would have been Russia. And not only having to deal with the Germans, they might also would have had to deal with the Japanese, who would have been emboldened by America's non-particpation in the war. And remember, the only thing keeping Hitler from taking Moscow was bad timing on his part (that brutal winter saved Stalin).

In short, unless Britain and Russia made some appeasment treaty towards Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito, they had a good chance of facing annihilation. Without American support, that is.

Answer 6

I remember being taught the Allies won the war too. The biggest contribution the U.S. made to the war effort was monetary and, as always, the air support to compete with the Luftwaffe, and the Naval support to launch the D-Day attack on Normandy. The U.S. gets the credit because the war was at a stalemate before we entered, but all that we(Americans)really did was provide the straw to break the camel's back. If we wouldn't have entered the war when we did, the war would've continued for a while longer, with the Russians as the victors and ultimately expanding it's borders even further then it did.

Answer 7

The defeat of the Nazis was achieved because of the united effort of the Canadians, British, French, Americans and other allied forces. Not the Americans alone but with a combined group.

Answer 8

It is funny you should ask that. The old Soviet Union did not acknowledged the contribution to the fall of Nazi Germany during what that called the Great Patriotic war. The US at the same time diminishes the brutality inflicted on the Soviets by the Germans, however, our advance into Berlin was deliberately halted to give that victory to Stalin. We figured that the Soviets deserved the victory in light of what the Nazi's did in Russia.

Answer 9

Probably because it was the American troops that conducted the Norman invasion and actually were the ones that marched into Germany and Berlin ending the war in Germany. Also the ones that dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan ending the Pacific war.

And probably because we Americans tend to think the whole world revolves around us.

But you are right, as American we do not often enough acknowledge the help of other countries during both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and even Irag today. So to all our allies, I want to offer a thank you and a God bless.

Answer 10

Because the war against the Nazis didn't officially end till America joined in and invaded Germany and established the Nuremberg Trials.