Jeffrey Kuhner’s understanding of history – Kuhner is substituting for Jerry Doyle today and made the statement that “only England helped the United States win World War Two”. This is going to come as a big shock to his fellow Canadians (about 43,000 of whom died), not to mention the Russians and Chinese and Australians and… This was the inspiration for my new series of history “polls”.
When Glenn Beck gets around to unlearning his history of World War Two, he may just realize that in much of the world, there is no such thing as World War Two – there were two wars that were fought at the same time – a war in Asia primarily between Japan and China (that the U.S. was drawn into over Japan’s access to oil) and a war in Europe between Germany+Italy and the rest of Europe. The notion of a “World War” is a U.S. Centric view of history. The European allies did not fight against Japan during the European war or after it ended. While Japan and Germany were allies, neither helped the other country other than very indirectly. (Germany controlled France, which controlled French IndoChina [Vietnam] which provided some resources to Japan). The Soviet Union started out helping Germany until Germany pulled the old switcheroo – they had only a defensive role in Asia until the final days of the war when they tried to Swoop in and grab some of the islands to the North of Japan – some think that Truman decided to drop the A bombs to end the war quickly before Russia did a land grab in Asia..
