did the U.S.Marines do anything in europe in world war two>?
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The Marines got as far as defending Iceland and set up long-range radar for British troops.  However, with the start of the war with the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Marines were deployed to protect the western theater while the Army protected the eastern.  Both Marines and Army were absolutely everywhere during WWII to protect all directional points of the USA.
1125662
The Marshall Plan while not perfect helped to assure peace in Europe. After the first World War Germany was stripped bare of assets, money and honor. This helped pave the way for the Second World War. What other choice was there. Other countries in Europe were at least partly destroyed and could have been the next flash point for War.
436855
Wow. That list could be pretty long. Germany conquered most of Europe with a little help from Italy and France. Japan conquered a piece of China,  most of the Pacific coastal countries on the Asian continent and most of the island nations in the Pacific. And then the Allies conquered Germany, Italy, and Japan.\n\nYeah, that list could get pretty long.
474481
no. altho they do have one. i think w/ the WW2 treaties it limits them.
675609
http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
752850
The United States Marines.\nThe USN helped too.\nT. Jefferson saw to it.
372806
Well, in terms of war or battles?\n\nAs far as war goes, the USA never lost a war.  In terms of battles, Germany, Japan, England, China, and the Confederacy.  The closest to loosing a war was 1812, against England.  We also lost a few naval engagements against the Barbary Pirate States, but won all land engagements.\n\nAs far as the guy above me, NATO and western Europe did not invade the soviets at the end of WW2.  The soviets would not return former independent nations to their own autonomy, claiming it created a buffer zone to prevent western invasion.  This was called the Warsaw Pact.  NATO was created in response, on a theory of containment.\n\nWe did land troops in Russia, after the revolution against the monarchy.  There were two governments, a Democratic and a socialist one.  Our troops never engaged, only advised.  Obviously, the socialists won.  This was at the turn of the 20th.\n\nIn Vietnam, the USA won every single battle with the NVA.  Public support eroded at home, so we pulled out.  It is said about Vietnam...."from the jaws of victory we pulled defeat."
561295
i have.  26Th MEU.  we patrolled the Mediterranean.  helped out a bit in Bosnia back in 1995. we were part of the IFOR.  I loved it. I loved being a Marine.  wish i would have stayed.
642614
Europe was broke from two World Wars.  They were already in poor economic shape before the war.  France was once again devastated by fighting on its territories.  Germany, the greatest European power, was divided into two zones, one controlled by the Soviet Union, and the other by France, UK, and the US, though the US had all the power.  Though the USSR was also devastated by the war, the battle of Stalingrad being the most deadly of the war, they quickly rebounded by treating Eastern Europe as an essential colony and stripping war material from East Germany.  The United States had been on the assent for some time, and would have become a superpower regardless of the war, but it just made them that much more powerful that potential German or British challengers.  During the war, at the meeting of Yalta between Roosevelt and Stalin, it was agreed that the USSR would get de factor control over Eastern Europe to administer it as it saw fit.  Later agreements led to the division of conquered Japanese territory, such as Korea.  This division was intended to only be temporary. But because of the ideological differences between the two, it quickly became clear that the U.S. and the USSR would become competitors.  While this led to proxy war in Korea, in Europe it devolved into a stalemate.  KGB battled the CIA, with both rigging elections through the continent.  Berlin was blockade from receiving food, with the West airdropping food in response.  Eventually it became the situation of the iron curtain, with a divided Europe, each side reliant on a superpower to prevent from becoming a battleground between the two. Though some countries showed some independence, mainly France and Yugoslavia, they were largely required to toe the line or fear losing protection.
1020515
I don't know if this is exactly what you were looking for but it could help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_divisions_during_World_War_II
440856
lighting war was the first part of ww2 in europe
664787
The French seem to forget that they (and all of Europe) would be called "Germany" and would be ruled by Nazis today if American's had not gotten involved in WW2.  They hate everything about America- ironically.  I think it is beyond snobbery.
40408
That was the code name! \n\nIt was code for the Allied invasion of Europe by way of Normandy, France.
751400
The events leading to World War II, its military operations, diplomacy, statistical data, and results, are discussed under the following headings:\n\nhttp://gi.grolier.com/wwii/wwii_i.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, UK.
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I've never heard that question posed so succinctly and eloquently before, but yes, that's exactly right.  Europeans knew we would defend them against attack, so they were free to act irresponsibly.  They didn't have to be realistic.\n\nThis article is only peripherally related to your question, but you'll love it:  \n\nhttp://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,343378,00.html
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traditionaly, the Marines, are the land fighting unit of the Navy.  Thus in most American wars, the battle ships were the first to arrive and the marines made the landings to secure the beach heads, then the transport ships would unload the army.  Today I would say that the Marines and Army tend to arrive more or less togeather via air transport, though the Marines are still part of the Naval Command.
417036
Well, since the Central Powers were Germany, Austria, and Hungary, I would guess that the German and Hungarian communities tried to get the U.S. swinging that way.  Good thing we stuck with the Allies.