"if it wasn't for the US in the 1940's, the Brittish would be speaking German....[:-]*grins* "
Let's not get into that.... one of the only reasons the US waited so long to get into that war was to get the most out of supplying the first half of it...
The protectionist/isolationist movement was very strong in the US at the time... a prevalent "Not our problem" kind of attitude... the people needed to beconvinced to go to war...Roosevelt was an awesome president though... he was just waiting for an excuse to get the US into Europe.. . . And the US knew that by coming in last, it would be maximizing it's gains from the war... Germany was the US's bitch forawhile with reparation payments etc.. haha