>>>If the US hadn't been so determinedly isolationist, my maternal grandfather might have lived a lot longer instead of being murdered at Auschwitz. We should be embarrassed about how long it took us to get into World War II.
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>>>Tamar
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>>Ah but one could argue that for your grandfather's life many more US boys would have died than did if they had entered earlier.
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>>One could also argue that the US, with its doughboys, wasn't prepared to fight a war on this scale back them. I don't know.
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>You may be right, but my guess is that the war would have been shorter and the total number dead lower, had the US entered significantly sooner.
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>Tamar

You never know. It might happen that if USA would enter the war before 1941 then without USSR (or maybe with the latter allied with Germany) the war could go much longer and claim more lives.