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The Americans joined the fight when Britian and Russia was pushing back Germany.
They did not 'want' to fight but they got forced into war by Japan. {First fight was Pearl Harbour} |
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FELOOxJoin Date: 2008-09-01
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I hope you aren't serious.
Picture a nutcracker in a VAK uniform riding applejack and screaming "FOR THE MOTHERLAND" then you know Feloo |
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InductiveJoin Date: 2012-05-28
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I think that we Americans stereotype the French a bit too much when it comes to wars, probably because they lost so easily in WWII. However, that loss was because of the tactics used to defeat France, and was an error on France's high command part. The French actually covered Britain's retreat from the North of France across the canal, if it weren't for that, Britain would've been knocked out of the war, thereby securing the European front for the Axis. |
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Also USA would not be a nation if it wasn't for France funding the American Revolution.
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InductiveJoin Date: 2012-05-28
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Right, that all being said, I still don't like French people. Or French Canadians, either. Too snobby. |
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FELOOxJoin Date: 2008-09-01
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@Inductive
That's pretty racist stereotyping French people like that.
Picture a nutcracker in a VAK uniform riding applejack and screaming "FOR THE MOTHERLAND" then you know Feloo |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90uPSya4ThY |
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vi0c8KRorJI
To all the US who act like they rule the world.
The fact is the UK have the best trained forces in the world and have done for the past century. |
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InductiveJoin Date: 2012-05-28
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Oh dear. The UK is the US' little buddy in Europe. Though, they also have a fairly strong military, and haven't been occupied in modern history. Also, Jibo, we know we don't rule the world, we simply know that we have more than enough nuclear weapons to destroy it several times over. |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=x5mQF8AJKsQ&feature=endscreen |
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Inductive, you flatter yourself to think that dozens of others countries don't have a nuclear stockpile primed, the UK alone has several hundred. |
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InductiveJoin Date: 2012-05-28
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Oh, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying lots of people can destroy civilization, but no one as well as the United States could. Except maybe Russia. |
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the words of sir winston churchill
"You can expect Americans to help you, after they've tried everything else."
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Summary of entire thread:
ANGAGNAANHANGNAHA I HATE EVERYBODY
AMRUGUM RUGHANM! !@#E SD F!# E RACISM R# S# $!S MSW *SN BBQQQQ RACISM
Get over it, you all contributed.
-Abbadon |
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Ew, ignorance.
Let me shed some light.
First Crusade (1096-1099)-Frankish Victory (considering most of the Crusaders came from France)
Second Crusade (1145-1149)-Failure
Third Crusade (1189-1192)- French/English/Germany lose to Egypt
Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)- French victory (after 116 years)
Italian Wars (1494-1559)- French defeated by Spain/Austria
Wars of Religion (1562-1598)- French Valois house removed, replaced by Bourbon
Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)- French victory in the Franco-Spanish phase
War of the Devolution (1667-1668)- French make gains
Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678)- France makes gains
War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)- Bourbon monarchy replaces Habsburg monarchy
War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)- See: Battle of Fontenoy (1745)
Seven Years' War (1756-1763)- French lose colonial possessions, maintain holdings in Europe
American Revolution (1776-1783)- Dutch, Spanish, and French forces secure American independence from Britain
French Revolution (1792-1802) - Minor gains acquired
War of the First Coalition (1792-1797)-- French victory
War of the Second Coalition (1798-1802)- French victory
War of the Third Coalition (1803-1806)- French Victory
War of the Fourth Coalition (1806-1807)- French Victory
War of the Fifth Coalition (1809)- French Victory
War of the Sixth Coalition (1812-1814)- French defeat (Borodino (1812), Leipzig (1814))
War of the Seventh Coalition (1815)- French defeat (Waterloo (1815))
Crimean War (1853-1856)- French, British, and Turkish forces prevent Russia from taking Crimea
Franco-Prussian War (1871)- French defeated, German Empire declared
World War I (1914-1918)- French, British, Russian, and Italian Forces (later Americans) fight four years of stagnant war with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
World War II (1939-1945)- France capitulates (1940), eventual allied victory
I understand I'm missing a great deal of the minor wars of the late twentieth century, as well as many other minor wars from the thirteenth century onward.
However, as you can see, France doesn't exactly lose a great deal.
This also excludes conflicts where France wasn't involved (such as the Great Northern War or the Balkan Wars of the late nineteenth early twentieth century)
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nice google,
i still don't believe they won wwii regardless if they're allies, they were occupied from 75% of the war by germany who arguably could have won the war for many reason |
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Who uses Google, 360? You should be able to recall this information on your own.
(Yay AP European) |
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"France won the hundred years' war against England."
good job it took you 116 years to beat the english |
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Not really. It's this thing called "autism", with an obsession in European history.
Google is overrated. Why Google it when you can find the facts a lot faster in your own mind? :) |
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Well in a way they lost WWII because Vichy France was on Axis side. |
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Moscovite, you can't forget the Free France government of Charles de Gaulle. A government in exile. |
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Are you guys dumb? The English squeezed the French out overtime like a pimple. King Louie is cool. |
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Draco, the French and English fought so many wars. You need to specify, yes you do. |
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