"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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swirlie · F

There is a war museum in California I once went to while on vacation there and every plaque on the wall stated very clearly that it was the United States and the US alone that waged battle with Hitler. There was no mention of any other players, just the Americans against the Germans. What all that museum propaganda never mentioned however, was who it was exactly who was busy fighting the Germans for the first 2 years of the war from 1939 to 1941 when the USA was still back in America trying to get it's shit together.

The museum refers to those first 2 years as a period of 'confusion in Europe', where Germany was trying to figure out what to do, basically wandering around aimless and lost... until the USA showed up to kick their ass out of Dodge, which of course the US declared they did singlehandedly. It was absolutely laughable to read the American bullshit that was written on the plaques of their own museum walls! I have felt personally embarrassed for Americans in general ever since that vacation.

Something else I'd like to point out is that once again, the USA never entered the First World War until 3 years after that war got started, no different than showing up 2 years late for WWII. World War 1 ran from 1914 to 1918 and the US never set foot in Europe to help out until 1917, 3 years late! Shameful actually, for an able-bodied country, rich with resources, to just sit idle on the sidelines like that for the first halves of two World Wars.