eg.Hitlers not attacking the allied soldiers(There were British and French)atDunkirk.
2007-09-08 06:26:29 · 32 answers · asked by godbar 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Burning of the great Libary at Alexandria must be one of the biggest mistakes, the amount of knowledge that was lost was incredible.
2007-09-08 10:34:23 · answer #1 · answered by Kevan M 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would definitely say it was the Vietnam War, which was a blunder in history since the United States went into a war that they didn't want to fight. The Americans should have clearly paid attention to Ho Chi Minh as he wanted American support to defeat the Japanese (and ultimately the French) during and after World War II. Think of an alternate outcome if the Americans supported Ho Chi Minh correctly: Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos) would have remained intact, either under a democracy or an independent communist government not allied with either Russia or China. There wouldn't be any Vietnam War and the US government would concentrate on spending money on government programs that would have eliminated poverty in all of its forms, thus leading to a "Great Society" that president Lyndon B. Johnson envisioned.
2007-09-08 09:13:06 · answer #2 · answered by Erik G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of the above. Nicola Tesla invented AC electric. The people at, I think it was, Westing House or General Electric, beat him out of the patent. Even in the 1880s, that would have been worth millions or more dollars.
Given the experiments he was conducting, and the fact that this would have generated millions if not billions of dollars for him at the time in the 19th century, he could have established a college, gathered learned minds, and it's quite possible that we would have been conversing on a computer like this in the 1920s.
Other great blunders would be:
1. The removal of the Kaiser and the German monarchy. This created a vacuum for radials to ferment.
2. The shipping of so much gold out of the U.S. to France that it ultimately lead to the stock market crash in 1929 which lead to the world-wide crash and times so bad that people like Hitler were able to take power because people were ready to fight not for freedom, power, dominance but bread, just bread as they were starving.
3. Decimalisation. You wouldn't have so many problems in math if you'd kept it in Pounds, Shillings and Pence. All based on 12 and fractions that you can divide into that. A gross is 144 and I think that was how many pennies made a Pound. 20 Shillings to the pound at 12 pennies per shilling. 4 Crowns to the Pound. It figures in very well with a doz. eggs and I think that can be traced back to bibical times. Old money was more complicated, probably more costly to produce by the Royal Mint, but you had to think. It exercised the brain. Now they're saying things like video games with people iwth Altheimer's help people think, exercise the brain and remain healthier.
Tomorrow it may be the Euro and with that the identity of Britain as an Island nation which has historically been isolated and thus spared some invasions and rabies from the continent, would loose its grasp upon what it is or was to be English/Scotch/Welsh.
2007-09-08 08:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by rann_georgia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Globally Organized Religion wins hands-down as mankinds' worst invention but human fear will keep it alive forever. The Great Strategic PREVENTABLE Blunder in United States History clearly was The Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld Iraq War. The consequences are still raining down on the U.S. and the rest of the world.
2014-11-15 07:33:20 · answer #4 · answered by Richard 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
History doesn't make blunders. Countries and people make blunders. History is just the means by which we record past events. Even what you gave as an example is simply a choice Hitler made; neither right nor wrong. He did not have foresight to know which was the better choice to be made. He simply made a choice with the information he had at hand.
2007-09-11 10:15:46 · answer #5 · answered by Sinclair 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Letting the British go from Dunkirk and the invasion of communist Russia were two big blunders by Adolf Hitler.
2007-09-08 09:01:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes in modern british history that certainly is the greatest blunder - his panzer tank divisions were at the beaches and awaiting the order to fire and attack the troops on the beach who had no armour to protect them but just field guns and small arms - hitler waited and lost his chance to control western europe completely - after that he always had england at his back or wherever - it affected his whole war with the comming of the us on englands side - and spelled the reichs doom
2007-09-08 16:33:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christopher Columbus discovering America
2007-09-08 23:08:33 · answer #8 · answered by poli_b2001 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The New World Order being found out by the common people.
2007-09-08 07:03:21 · answer #9 · answered by KD7ONE 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Columbus discovering America- the murder of native americans, the war of independence, George Bush and the American Attitude that they rule the world.
2007-09-11 00:36:58 · answer #10 · answered by tony_rly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church's inability to accept dissent in the 15th and 16th centuries that led to continuing violence within Christian believers as well against Jews, Muslims, and still Christians 'fight and kill for peace'
2007-09-11 08:29:55 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋