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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
I love these kinds of threads, always brings out the idealistic dip####s who haven't got a clue how lucky they were to win the life lottery by being born in Canada. I'll always wear a poppy, it's a pretty insignificant gesture when you think about how much some people gave in times of war.
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I think everybody realizes how awesome Canada is. The two world wars had nothing to do with this, nor did they somehow prevent a foreign invasion. People who say we owe our freedom to veterans are naive, simplistic, and ignorant.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If Canada hadn't entered the war.
The North American Convoys wouldn't have broken the German Naval blockade of the UK, Britain likely would have been invaded and taken or starved of food, fuel vital part weapons and ammunition died on the vine. Hitler would have probably delayed his invasion of Russia and built a true fortress Europe.
Without Canada there wouldn't have been southern pressure on the German's through Italy.
The UK would have probably been a puppet state of Berlin,
The Normandy Invasion wouldn't have happened as a trans Atlantic supply line would have been broken.
Key American armaments that flowed through Canada to Britain wouldn't have arrived and Britain would have been short of Aircraft and other key systems.
The English rule of law would have essentially vanished throughout Europe and most of Africa.
If the Japanese hadn't foolishly attacked Pearl Harbor and Canada hadn't participated in the convoy runs and later the military actions in Europe we would have been looking at a far more frightening version of a cold war featuring a convienience alliance between Germany Japan and the Soviets.
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I think you overvalue Canada's role in WW2.
Half of Europe became communist after the war anyway, so it wouldn't have been that much different.
Let's say Britain and France don't declare war in Sep. 1939 and let Germany have Gdansk. One of two things likely would have happened.
1. Hitler makes no more territorial acquisitions and rules a prosperous Germany for the rest of his life. He did say his only ambitions were Gdansk and Silesia, the areas taken away after Versailles (though he said a lot of things).
2.Hitler invades Russia in the early 1940's and wins, making Germany the leading world power, with USA, Britain, and Japan.
Don't really see how any of these scenarios affects the freedom of Canadians.