"If the US had entered WWII earlier, Hitler would have been squashed earlier,"
We would have had no choice, if we were a Brit colony. If we were in it early, Hitler would not have attacked Russia, who actually did more to defeat the Germans than we did.
You can't change one thing without influencing everything else.
" I'd rather be Canada than us,"
On August 5, 1914, the Governor General declared a war between Canada and Germany
Canada's total casualties stood at the end of the war at 67,000 killed and 250,000 wounded, out of an expeditionary force of 620,000 people mobilized (39% of mobilized were casualties). [6]
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US
53,402 combat deaths, 320,518 total killed and wounded. Think what we cudda done had we started in '14
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In WW2, imagine how many we would have lost at Dunkirk alone.
Here are the wars you would fight for king and country. The Nile Expedition, the Boer Wars, the Russian Revolution... cool stuff.
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I'd rather be American with fewer wars. |
