World War 1 Barfight

That's not really accurate, though. WW1 was a giant stalemate at first, there was no end in sight for the war until the United States showed up. It took all Germany could muster to fight off everyone else almost single-handedly, and when we showed up we tipped the scale in the favor of England/France/Australia.

So our involvement in the war was extremely important, but we by no means defeated Germany alone.

Its no doubt that the US helped bring the war to an end a lot faster but when the US joined the war all Germany could manage to do was hold off the advances of the allies and would have soon lost due to lack of resources. Also i've talked to many Americans who actually believe that without the US in WW1 that the allies would have lost and that the allies were getting their shit handed to them until the US joined the war, some sort of glory brainwashing must have been going on through the education system....

Actually, we owe alot to the americans. Neither side was doing more damage to the other, we were just taking turns assaulting eachother's positions. When the americans entered the war, Russia also pulled out of the war the same year. There was a race between the Entente forces who were preparing the inexperienced american forces and the Germans who were shipping a huge force of experienced veterans from the eastern front. Had the americans not entered the war, we may well have not been able to hold back against such force, and certainly not have pushed forward against the positions the Germans had spent the entire winter of 1917 fortifying heavily.

Yeah, America would have been a lot better off if they never entered the war in the first place

That's not true, not only would international relations be severely harmed, but the war helped stimulate the economy into the roaring 20's

Yeah but it also permanately ended American->European isolationism. Although with the first roosevelt isolationism was pretty much out the window. As an American I just kind of wish that we weren't entrenched around the world fighting on so many fronts that we can't pay for all of them.

I wouldn't say that was what started it, I think that it started just after World War 2 when the cold war started and since then you'll notice that almost every place that the USA has gone to, had ties to USSR

True, however woodrow wilson really started it off after WW1 with his idea of the League of Nations. Which really pissed off congress as they didn't want any European Alliances, and to that point America really didn't have any European alliances. Also if we hadn't WW1 germany probably would've been hit way harder than it was with war reparations, as it was Wilson who suggested they not be penalized at all, and may have prevented WW2.

I explained below my comment about non-involvement in WW1. And yes the zimmerman telegraph was a foolhardy move on behalf of the German, but this was because America was still selling weapons to the British even though they were "neutral" beings that the British had a blockade in the North sea. The Germans thought the Americans were about to enter on behalf of the British so they made a fool's gambit, and ended up bringing America into the war anyway.

I'm American and, yeah. That's pretty much what happened.

North of USA

Mostly assimilated with the British but we did win lot of major battles on our own

He apologized to everyone?

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Thank you!

actually, ill take that nutshell comic and make a fucking funny story just for you Flamingo

:D

Germany wakes up. Realizes it's been robbed. *Blames the Jews.

www.funnyjunk.com/channel/war-time/WW2+in+a+nutshell/cTumGpG

Holy crap that was awesome.

i loved the american nuclear baseball XD

America was really funny throughout the whole thing.

" come ON America, I really need some help"

"Hey, look Brit, I cant win all Your wars for you, and i really dont care"

"I'LL GET THOSE JAPS KRAUTS AND WHOEVER'S ON THEIR SIDE"

best one:

"alright France, so i liberated You from Germany...heres a flag"

"um thanks, i guess..."

I liked the part where he blew up Japan and China was a bit scorched.

yeah kinda like the old looney tunes cartoons

because you are educated you get a thumb

Actually, almost every american I have ever met has said "We have won all our wars, and we saved the war with D-Day"
Yes D Day did help, but at that point the tide was turning slowly. the USA is like the guys that comes in and pushes on the car for 30 seconds after watching the other people push it out of the snowbank for 15 minutes.

For the car pushing analogy, let's not forget who broke the car in the first place. It wasn't us. It wasn't even our car. So no matter what we did to help it would always be as an outsider coming in a bit late.

And we did win the war, in the sense that we were on the winning side. I'm just saying we never really claim to have done it on our own.

Yes, I suppose you did win the war, but I was making more of a rereference to how the USA tends to claim that they won every war they were in, from the revolution to 1812, vietnam, korea, etc.

Well, we have a winning record. It isn't a perfect record, but it's not bad.

Not that we should be bragging about war in the first place.

That's what I am saying, it's not a bad record, but they claim the never lost, and that they have always been unbeatable.

But who claims that? All Americans? Only Americans? I mean, I lived in England for a few years, and I heard people there say pretty much the same thing about England.

I guess my point is that I don't get why that stereotype applies only to Americans. Pick any patriotic person in any nation on the planet and they'll probably act the same way.

That's not what I am saying, the USA waited until the car was almost out, then pushed and claimed it was mostly him, even though it was sliding out slowly but surely.

if you're trying to say that WW2 could have been won without the americans, i'm sorry but that is ridiculous, britain would have been shit on by the luftwaffe and they would have been invaded and destroyed, russia might have put up a good fight but once germany dealt with england they would have been able to focus all their forces on the russians and they probably would have been destroyed and what about the japanese? we dealt with the japanese single handedly, plus britain would have fallen very early if it wasnt for american support

1 - At the point where the USA came in, Britain was not as bad as it looked, it looked bad because cities were being bombed, but believe it or not, that was a good thing, that allowed the british air force to get up and fight back.
2 - I never said that they would have won without the USA, but I am saying that the USA was not the deciding factor, take any force out and the war goes to shit, take canadians away, and it goes to shit, take Africans away, it goes to shit, etc.
3 - Japan is the only victory I will give entirely to Americans, because that was entirely your war, they never came after Britain like they did you guys.

While the Americans did help, the actual point which defined the outcome of the war was when Canada took Vimy Ridge. I'm not trying to gloat, but it literally is the reason why France isn't a giant crater right now.

exactly

in short, a yugoslav jew killed an austrian noble...and just because germany raised its hand to say 'hold on a second' the world blames germany for WW1

But they were in an arms race with Britain.

And the Kaiser was a war-hungry maniac, it was Bismark who was the calm one.
But Bismark got fired in the 1910s, the Kaiser started all-out militarism, and thats
why Germany were able to be in Belgium within a couple of weeks. They had over
42 Plans on how to fuck up the Maginot Line and the RUssians at the same time.

they made a lot of plans yes
but when it actualy came down to it they tried to stop the war from happening
out of all the big countries (france britain germany russia italy spain etc) they were the only one which tried to calm things down before going hell for leather

Well Apparently, OP believes that Turkey and Ottoman Empire are the same thing.

What the fuck did Canada do, say sorry?

Nope.
We took Somme, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and Ypres ALL from Germany.
Which America proceeded to take most credit of.

The Canadian soldiers were among the best in the Allied forces.

Uhhh... win the battle for Vimy Ridge... the single most important battle of WWI. You know, the one which defined the outcome of the war? The battle that the Canadians won in 5 days after the rest of the allied forces failed to do so for several weeks? Yeah, that battle. Why don't you go fuck yourself, ignorant douche nozzle.

Because its Canada...

Then socks him another 2 times for Passchendaele and Mons

Yeah, also Canada successfully defended Belgium from German invasion for days, until Britain arrived as reinforcements.

I did too, until you mentioned it. It's actually quite easy.

he wasnt againt total punishment, but he did think the rest of the allies were being far too harsh.

France was the most aggressive about it, had it gone their way, germany would probably have collapsed as a nation, the UK was less harsh, but still angrier than the USA. It's not that surprising though, seeing as after Germany, Britain and France lost the most soldiers in the war and had to face the trauma associated with the disfigured and mentally scarred soldiers who did come back, and france also had to rebuild its northwest from scratch

France declared war against Germany because it was allied with Russia. UK was associated with France, but not allied and joined as a result of Germany invading Belgium. Who knows, perhaps the war would have gone differently had they gone straight into France and not attacked Belgium...

I was picturing that well reading this, made it even better XD