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07-03-2006, 10:19 PM
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Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
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Japan: Failing to surrender early and causing the needless death of millions [/ QUOTE ] Japan tried to surrender both before the first bomb and before the second, America ignored them because they needed to test their new weaponery. My choices: Axis: Involving America Allies: Not using the united spirit of the world to form a powerful UN to keep world affairs solidly in check. 
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07-03-2006, 10:24 PM
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Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
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Japan tried to surrender both before the first bomb and before the second, America ignored them because they needed to test their new weaponery. [/ QUOTE ] Do you have a source for this ridiculous statement? I'm pretty sure the US made it clear from the getgo that only unconditional surrender would be accepted and the feelers the Japanese sent out prior to/after Hiroshima had conditions that were unacceptable.
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07-03-2006, 10:35 PM
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Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
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[ QUOTE ] Japan tried to surrender both before the first bomb and before the second, America ignored them because they needed to test their new weaponery. [/ QUOTE ] Do you have a source for this ridiculous statement? I'm pretty sure the US made it clear from the getgo that only unconditional surrender would be accepted and the feelers the Japanese sent out prior to/after Hiroshima had conditions that were unacceptable. [/ QUOTE ] Just what I recall from taking high school history, I think the first surrender didn't meet America's demands but the one after Hiroshima was unconditional and American still dropped the second bomb. I'll check wikipedia.
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07-04-2006, 02:25 PM
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Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
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[ QUOTE ] Japan: Failing to surrender early and causing the needless death of millions [/ QUOTE ] Japan tried to surrender both before the first bomb and before the second, America ignored them because they needed to test their new weaponery. My choices: Axis: Involving America Allies: Not using the united spirit of the world to form a powerful UN to keep world affairs solidly in check. [/ QUOTE ] This is incorrect. The Japanese did not surender for 3 days after the first bomb. It was only after Russia declared war on them and the 2nd one way dropped that they surendered.
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07-15-2006, 10:31 AM
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Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
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Germans: Failing to give up the beachheads in france and launch a counter attack instead. [/ QUOTE ] I think more so Hitlers failing to send support to troops on the beach when he could have is the first mistake here. -Yeah, the whole Russia thing was a mess. -I also remember something about Hitler could have made Jets but had a fasicnation with bombers instead.
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07-07-2006, 07:26 AM
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For the Jews
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I am going to have to go with the mass gassing of the Jews. That really turned a number of people against Hitler who otherwise might have turned more of a blind eye to things. [/ QUOTE ]This doesn't stand up to scrutiny. The holocaust was not widely known to the world. Besides, the western (Christian) world was not immune to a certain prejudice against Jews. I mean, if you were to tell the western folks that the war was waged to save Jews, I don't know...
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07-03-2006, 06:13 PM
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Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
Axis: Getting the Americans actively involved in the war by bombing Pearl Harbor.
Allies: Americans diddling around in Africa waiting for the Germans to exhaust their resources in Russia.
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07-03-2006, 06:18 PM
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Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
El D : Is that true? While from a moral perspective, the holocost is unquestionably the worst and evilest thing that the Nazi regime did, I was under the impression that most of the details of the holocost didn't come out until after the war. Did it really have an effect on the sympathies for the war, while the war was occuring?
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07-03-2006, 06:21 PM
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Re: What was the biggest mistake made during WWII?
AK, Utah:
You are both correct, but I at least like to think that the underlying moral problems people had with some of Hitler's tactics had at least some impact on how things developed. Then again, you are both probably right and it really was just about protecting territories and reacting to Pearl Harbor.
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