why didn"t the United States invade communist Russia during World War 2?

Answer 1

General George Patton wanted to, but Eisenhower and George Marshall were against it. The Russians were our supposed allies at the time. Patton knew they were untrustworthy and had no problem telling anyone any different. It was because of this fact that Patton was relieved of his duties in occupied Germany.

Answer 2

USA didn't really find the Russians to be friends during world war 2, but Germany invaded Russia to the center of the country, and that was an identical repeat of Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1805. The results were identical, the invaders were then surrounded and the Russian people destroyed the resources that were necessary for the invaders, leaving them as fugitives only desperate to flee out of the country they had conquered. Most of the world hated Germany and they were a formidable foe. For this reason the USA banded together with Russia until the end of the conflict. The Americans, however, were in a race with the Russians to end the war before the Russians claimed more victories- and territory. That is why we bombed Germany so hard toward the end, and why we dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Answer 3

When Gen. Patton got to Berlin he wanted to do just that but the US military is a disciplined group and they are controlled by civilian authority. President Truman put a stop to anything of that nature very quickly. It may have been a mistake but it may have been a damn smart call.

Had we attacked Russia, their troops probably would have waged a running war on us while retreating. That retreat would shorten their supply lines every day just as it stretched ours. If they had timed it correctly winter may have played a significant roll in most of the main engagements. In short we might have lost everything in the attempt.

When Germany attacked Russia, look at how Russian forces withdrew every deeper into Russia with Hitler's troops following. Soon winter set in and the Nazi's were too far from home while the Russians slept in their own beds (an exaggeration). Lack of supplies and equipment doomed the German forces and finally forced defeat upon them.

Answer 4

Russian people (not the government - people) NEVER considered Americans to be an enemy. No matter how bad were relationships between two countries in 70 and 80s, in the history class kids always been toughed that America helped Russia win the war (lets not fight who helped who, ok?) and Russian people remember all the food, clothes and machinery sent by America. I'm not sure America would have won the war against Russia, people were pretty fanatic at Stalin's time, more fanatic than Americana's, but I' really glad that this theory never been tasted.

Answer 5

That was actually a serious consideration. Many believed that the U.S and Russia would just start fighting each other when they reached Berlin and Tokyo. The Yalta conference helped a bit to prevent this, but the main deterrent to war was the Atomic bomb. Some historians argue that the bombing of Nagasaki was not intended to force a Japanese surrender, rather it was meant to tell the Russians to f*** off when they declared war on Japan following the Bombing of Hiroshima.

Answer 6

Actually there were some germans hoping for a separate truce with the allies and then they would join forces against Russia,but it was a german pipe dream in the minds of a few General staff

Answer 7

remember there were russians killed by the germans than the jews, i think it was somewhere in the range of 11 million. we went in and could of kept going and , basically took over the world, but it was not US policy , never has, never will. it is like iraq and all those 3rd world countries, we could take them all out and take over. or like russian now a days. we won the cold war, what did we do, help them, give them money and food. we are trying to teach that freedom and democracy is the future. if we took over we would be like the germans in wwll, we must lead by example, world leaders and sole superpower.

Answer 8

Patton wanted to. Everyone thought he was crazy. I think he had a great military mind and knew what would happen in the future. Unfortunately, politicians run the wars, not the generals.

Answer 9

becuase we were counting on the russians to help out against hitler and japan. they were not really our enemies at the time, so why invade? also our troops were busy elsewhere

Answer 10

Because they fought with us and after the war we split up the goods with them.....