"If it wasn't for us you'd all be speaking German!"

This is a serious question cause I've gotten this or similar responses quite a few times and I am really confused.
What kind of history are people in the US taught? Are you seriously taught that it was America that ended WWII? Because what we learn in Europe (or at least in many European countries) is that the US were the last ones to join and the war would never be over if it wasn't for Russia (and the Russian winter).
Do not try to attack me! It is an actual question and I need serious answers, it's like people on the two sides of the ocean are getting two completely different versions of the story.

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RemovedUsername1042818 · 22-25, M

US public schools don't even teach history anymore. They basically show you a painting of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, some cannons and boats, and then piles of dead Jews when we get to the Holocaust unit. Everything else I had to read on my own.

But yes, it is true that the US turned the tide of the war. France was screwed, English forces were stretched thinner than me buttering toast when the butter container is empty. Everyone else was irrelevant, neutral, or Axis. After the ground froze in the beginning of winter during Operation Barbarossa the German tanks and mechanized support were freed from the mud and actually got about 30-40 miles from Moscow. Hitler chose not to punch through instead opted to take a few Northern cities like Leningrad to cripple Soviet industrial capacity, as well as the oil fields to the South to fuel German armored divisions in the area. This decision, plus the US attacking them on the Western front led to the German's downfall.

As has been said many times, the victors write the history. And because of this a lot of people don't appreciate just how close Germany came to victory. It was basically a couple bad decisions and bad luck that cost them the war.