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I also believe that by bringing Japan into war against the Allies in WW2, that the US indeed just possibly might have done more harm than good to the British and their Allies.
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ok, now i have to ask. what history books do you garner your knowledge from? i want titles. my guess is that one of them starts with "What if"
Please explain precisely how the US brought Japan into WWII. That is like blaming the murder victim for making the murderer a criminal.
i don't know if you are genuinely ignorant or a troll, but let's get this straight - no one said that the US won either of the wars single handedly. BUT the US had more to do with the victories than you were apparently taught.
WWI - yep, we were late comers. Of course it ended shortly after we got there. I'm not sure if it would have ended so quickly if the US commanders had done as the Brits and French desired, though. They wanted US troops to climb into the trenches with them and serve as replacements in the war of attrition. US commanders correctly decided, that different tactics were more appropriate. stalemate broken.
WWII - The allies were holding the lines in most places. Well, at least after they decided that appeasement wasn't really that effective and maybe they should actually fight. US equipment did play a major part in holding those lines though. Japan attacks, US finally says isolationism hasn't really worked. We pull most of our young men out of the factories and farms, train them, and send them over. A big difference is that this was the birth of an american military that was trained with the mindset that their job was to
kill people, blow shit up, and go home.
The brits and french were concerned with fighting without damaging buildings and disrupting cities. the americans figured that if blowing up one old building killed a bunch of guys named jerry and saved a bunch of guys named joe, then it was ok. and more importantly if blowing something up brought them one step closer to going home - it was a no brainer. they did it.
the americans believed overwhelming force and lots and lots and lots of metal would win the war. and they were right.
if the russians had made peace on the eastern front the war would have gone on much longer, but it still would have ended the same way. The german war machine was running at maximum capacity already. and their capacity diminished daily while their cities were pounded into rubble from air raids. The US still had plenty of room to grow.