Timeline for Why Was Hitler So Sure America Would Enter on Side of Allies?
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| Jan 27, 2020 at 17:47 | comment | added | JustWilliam | @WS2 thanks for the comment. You make a good point about it being the composition of the ruling classes rather than the population as whole that would affect the issue. | |
| Jan 22, 2020 at 23:50 | comment | added | WS2 | @jamesqf Determination of a country's fundamental path, is perhaps not so much a function of the origins of its entire population, as of its ruling classes. America had been founded by Englishmen - Washington, Jefferson etc. And my suspicion is that in the 1930s the overwhelming majority of key position-holders in politics, government service, the military and in business were of Anglo origin. (And the ones who weren't were probably Jewish) Added to that FDR's ancestors were Dutch. | |
| Dec 7, 2017 at 20:03 | vote | accept | JustWilliam | ||
| Oct 14, 2017 at 3:25 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Tom Au: More Americans may or may not have had German "roots" (and are you counting the Hessians from the revolution among them?); what they didn't have is a shared language and culture. Americans read books by British authors, saw British actors in movies, did business with Britain, wealthy Americans married into the aristocracy (e.g. Wallis Simpson and Winston Churchill's mother). OTOH, it seems from what I've read that most German immigrants saw coming to America as more of an escape. | |
| Oct 11, 2017 at 20:49 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/918216933862006786 | ||
| Oct 7, 2017 at 6:37 | comment | added | Tom Au | My understanding is that "more Americans had German roots" than English roots, but not "British" if you count Scots, Welch, and northern Irish. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 4:05 | comment | added | congusbongus | I don't find this question to be a bad one; in addition to OP's comments, remember that in 1940, the "Final Solution" didn't exist, during WWI both sides were courting the US to enter their side, and sure Triumph of the Will was kind of loopy but Woodrow Wilson was a huge fan of Birth of a Nation. WWII was a good vs evil war only in hindsight, especially for the US. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 3:59 | comment | added | user15620 | It wasn't exactly strange for him to worry about something that was essentially the last nail in the coffin of the prior German Reich, only 23 years before. | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 3:30 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | He wasn't as dumb has he seemed? | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 2:36 | answer | added | Jos | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 5, 2017 at 1:03 | answer | added | Tom Au | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Oct 4, 2017 at 21:32 | history | edited | sempaiscuba | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 4, 2017 at 21:12 | answer | added | Denis de Bernardy | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 4, 2017 at 21:01 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 4, 2017 at 20:57 | history | asked | JustWilliam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |