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Originally Posted by Daradon
Not to mention, while they didn't fare very well in the WW's (and like you mentioned, that was about circumstance, not because they weren't tough or brave) they did have one of the larger empires in the world history and some big years of conquest.
Yeah, it's just not a fair stereotype. It's all about the US chest thumping and the 'we saved your asses attitude many of them have about WW2,' which always made me a bit angry because countries like Canada and Australia who were much smaller were in the wars from the starts and made much larger contributions per capita, and countries like France and Poland really saw the worst of it and needed help much sooner.
Course, Americans know sheet about history and geography for the large part.
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Canada along with Australia and the kiwis were in the war from the beginning because they were under the crown.
The Americans tried to stay out of the war until they possibly couldn't. The Second World War for the yanks was bad, but they were never pushed off continental Europe either.....
Wwi was Wierd and if it wasn't for the Zimmerman telegram I don't know if the Americans would have ever joined the war.