How long did ENGLAND fight FASCISM alone until the USA decided to intervene?

Question

Not forgetting Hitler's doomed assualt on Russia, which ultimately led to the fall of Nazism. But America wasn't even close to the communist forces by then!

Why did ENGLAND fight FASCISM alone? Is it because they weren't CASHING IN?

Answer 1

You are forgetting the "lend lease" program where we provided arms for England to defend herself with. Our government was very reluctant to get involved, even to the point where they thought Hitler was joking by declaring war upon the USA. How on earth could they wage war against us? Was the general idea held at the time. We later learned how Germany had plans to attack the USA. By this time we had been at war with Japan, and by proxy with Germany. We were there almost from the beginning. At least with arms to fight with. Were it not for that, the native language of England might well be German.

We also had proof that Japan had planned how to attack the west coast. Who knows what might have happened if either plan had been executed, and been successful.

One of the single largest contributions to the victory of the allies was the breaking of "enigma". The encoding and decoding of the communications where England had captured one of the machines, and figured out the decryption codes. The Japanese used the same system, on loan from Germany. We (the allies) had the codes to work the machine, and knew of most of what they were doing. To remain a secret, we had to allow some things to happen, or else the enigma would surely have been ditched. Unfortunately many people died to keep that secret, a secret.

Germany had set up a super tower in the north eastern USA built by Telefunken, we decided to let the tower go on operating, since it was truly a great source of intelligence the Germans thought were secret. They would transmit encoded material on the subcarrier of the main signal, we would then pick it up, catch the subcarrier, decode it and use that information to make plans with. It was discovered by a German spy what we were doing, and the station was immediately torn down, by Telefunken themselves.

Reverse engineering is great isn't it?

Answer 2

From 1939 in support of our allies the Poles, it was a legal obligation by treaty. America only actually declared war After Japan had done Pearl Harbour and declared war first in '42. This tipped the balance of power while British and ex German scientists developed the A bomb in America, this enabled America to beat the Japanese after the war in Europe had been won.

Answer 3

Basically it was Churchill that fought fascism alone. Chamberlain, Petain and the rest were all going along with Hitler at first figuring that he wasn't that bad. The Europeans fought from 1939 till 1941 and the USA got involved in the first part of 1942.
BTW, British law makes it much easier to fight terrorism.

Answer 4

The UK entered into war with Nazi Germany in 1939 after Hitler broke the promise he made to PM Chamberlain to stop his aggression across Europe. The US entered war with Nazi Germany on December 11, 1941, 3 days after the US declared war on Imperial Japan for their attack on Pearl Harbor. Nazi Germany declared war on the US.

Though the US wasn't actively fighting with the Nazis, it was supplying goods and war supplies to the UK for sometime before the Nazis declared war on the US. So, the US had been "fighting fascism" with the UK long before it entered the fight actively.
I don't understand what the "Is it because they weren't cashing in" part means.

Answer 5

The British Empire started fighting in September 1939 and the first American forces to enter ground combat arrived in North Africa in November 1942.

Answer 6

You don't seem to know your history. The US was involved by providing ships in the "Lend Lease" programs. Once Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and the US declared war on Japan, it was a moot point because Germany and Japan were allies, so American was then automatically at war with Germany at that point. Also, Americans were actually involved in the shooting war before war was actually declared, because the merchant marine sailors that helped deliver the ships for the "Lend Lease" program were being torpedoed by the German U-boats.

Answer 7

I think it was due to an isolationist position which existed in the US at the time. Kind of like the one currently growing.

Answer 8

England has been dealing with crap for a long time. They often do better than we do.

England has been facing terrorists since back when the IRA tried to mess with England.

Did England open Guantanimo Bay?
Did England have secert torture camps?
Did English rulers spit on English law?