In the last year of the war in Europe (1944-1945) what problems emerged w/in American military high command?
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Personal rivalry for fame between US General George S. Patton and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.  Each wanted to be the first one across the Rhine and defeat Germany.  However, owing to a lack of resources both could not attack at the same time.  The resulting friction nearly cost Patton his job.
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Gee i seem to understand that America had a few problems ourselves after the revolution.  I mean like a previous answerer stated Germany and Japan were not fixed overnight.  The biggest difference between Iraq and Vietnam is that in Vietnam the Democrats would not let the military fight to win, but were more interested in making money on our dead 58,000 American soldiers than doing what needed to be done to help democracy succeed, but now the Republicans, much to the anger of the liberals, have turned the conflict over to the military so that they can do what they need to in order to win.  In wartime someone always makes money, but something you need to keep in mind is that most of the major conflicts America has been involved in the Democrats have squarely planted us in them.  You are so concerned with getting us out of Iraq, and so worried about the soldiers dying there, because Bush got us there, but you have said nothing about the American, and allied troops that still get into firefights in Bosnia!!!  Clinton put us there 11 years ago, and we still rotate troops there, but no says anything about Clinton's screwup!!  If you are going to ask these kind of questions, then at least have the balls, and intestinal fortitude to ask about ALL the places AMERICAN troops are dying in!!!!!
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It wasn't fun, you can bet on that.  Who knew if we would win or not.  All of my friends went into the service.  So did I.  Some of my friends never came back.  Limited gas. Certain food not available. Hard to buy new clothes. However, life went on and we finally pulled out of it.  When I came home from Italy in 1946 things had already returned to 90% of normal.  After the war, things boomed.
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eisenhower in europe...macarthur in pacific
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WWII, basically the same thing. Germany was blamed the  most for everything.
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maybe something abut how they are still at war and there have been many minor skirmishes or incidence over the years, there was a great program on the history channel about that, alot of stuff I didn't know.  sorry I don't remember the name of it.
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from 1939-1945 but the u.s. wasnt involved until 1941
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The 1940 and 1944 Summer and Winter Olympics were cancelled due to World War II
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The Marine Corps was not active in the European theater during WWII.  It's entire concentration was against the Japanese in the Pacific.  Nowhere in the archives will you find Marine units having been deployed on Eisenhower's side of the war.  The one exception may have been UDT teams, however, I don't believe the Marines were active in those units during WWII.
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America "doing laundry"?!?!  That is as insulting and ignorant as it is completely wrong.  And using casualty figures clouds the issues even more.  How many Soviet officers and soldiers did Stalin and his Commissars kill?  And to that we can add the poor tactics and training of the average Soviet "peasant and worker" troops who were slaughtered as they attacked directly into German lines.  But that isn't the question here.\n\nAs for why France and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fell so easily in 1940, we must look at these countries during the "interwar years" between WWI and WWII.  Both the UK and France suffered greatly during the “Great War” and their people wanted nothing to do with anything military.  Coupled with this was the mindsets in both countries military that tanks were a fluke invention and even if used, they were nothing more than mobile pill boxes.  Add to this the fact the British went back to pushing horse Cavalry over tanks even through WWII and you can see a trend.\n\nThe British also had a doctrine called “Limited Liability” where the Royal Navy was favored, along with the Royal Air Force (RAF) why the Army was relegated to a colonial police force.  Some of this came from the theories of prominent thinkers (Douhae, spelled wrong) who advocated independent air forces and mass bombing campaigns.  This appealed to an island nation wanting nothing to do with another land war in Europe.  Also, even in the face of German re-armament, the Spanish Civil War, and the Invasion of Poland (which the USSR helped with), neither the British, under Chamberlain, nor the French prepared for the coming war.\n\nFrance, after stating they would NEVER fight another war like WWI, immediately started preparing for another WWI in the 1920s.  Their doctrine for the coming war was “methodical battle”.  A series of defensive battles using tightly controlled units to stop the German advances while the Allies prepared their armies for the attack..a few years later.  The Germans simply over-ran the French lines before they could be set-up.\n\nFor the Germans, the interwar period saw them devote 10% of their military to conducting an After Action Review of WWI.  They reformed their Armed Forces from the top down.  They got rid of the “nobility” or privileged class restriction for the officer corps and instead set up formal education for officers similar to West Point, Annapolis and the War College in the US.  They conducted secret research into tanks with the Soviets in the 1920s with full support of the Soviet government.  When Hitler arrived, he had a professional core for his army and only lacked the production capacity for war.  This was one of the reasons he took Czechoslovakia as its tank factories were some of the best in the region. Germany incorporated the Czech tank into their army and named it the PZ-38T.\n\nWhen Germany entered France in 1940, they entered only after training extensively through the previous winter and only after they had integrated the newer PZIII and PZ IV Panzers into their training.  That said, a bulk of German Armor was still PZI Machine Gun tanks (small versions of the UK Matilda), and PZII training tanks (Armed with 20mm cannon and a machine gun).  The French and British had better tanks, and more of them.  However, the German combined arms tactics and superior mobility of its infantry, combined with some very stupid decisions by the Allies, along with very possible treason by those destined to be the Vichy French, combined to cause the fall of France only a few months later.\n\nThat’s the short rundown for a very much larger topic.  It must be noted that the only foul ups in this operation (i.e. allowing the BEF and French forces to evacuate from Dunkirk) occurred when Hitler got involved directly in military operations.  This set the tone for the rest of WWII.  When Hitler stayed out of the way, the Germans did well.  When he waded in like a
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The ANNOUNCEMENT was related to end of WWII.  The ENFORCEMENT was related to Korea.  Truman misspoke his doctrine - or was ambiguous - and the Russians and Chinese misjudged his wording, leading to conflagration on the Korean peninsula.  I just don't remember what his misstatement was, precisely.
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There is so much to say on this so I will keep my personal views relatively ( ! ) short; \nSince WW2, most western european nations have experienced the demise of empire and their previously almost unchallenged military and economic dominance. \nThey have learned from this humility that consultation and diplomacy is the best way forward when dealing with 'problem nations' . \nThis compared to the current (but I hope not permanent) American model of a kind of patriarchal dictatorship, negotiating from a position of economic and military dominance, with a claim of benevolance that belies its self interest. \nDictation of terms is a luxury that European nations no longer have. It promotes jealousy and resentment, in the same way that former colonies of European nations rebelled against their former masters, there is a growing movement of 'non aligned' nations that would like to change the world order once more.\nAmerica needs to learn from the modern and current European political style. It needs to be more pro-active in foreign policy, outward looking and sophisticated in its diplomacy if it wants to keep its position as a superpower.
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Other the usual (England, Iraq war, etc.), the only major issue I can think of is the fact that Scottish pareliment's roof almost caved in.\n\nBelow are some newspaper sites. The local internet news is always a good place to check for a countries' current concerns and issues.
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America hit its golden age after WW2.\n...out of the depression, economy strong,\nhigh patriotism, etc.  We had the opportunity\nto become a nation that every country could\nadmire.  We blew it in the 60s with an \nunpopular war...dissension, a misdirected\nrevolution against the establishment \n(misdirected because it included family,\nchurch, and law enforcement as part of the\nestablishment.)  All this led to a fragmenting\nof our country and a rise in violence, \nvulgarity, teen pregnancies, divorces, a\ndownward spiral in education...in short, what\nwe have today.  Granted, problems such as\ncivil rights for minorities and women should\nhave been addressed (and might have been,)\nbut opportunities that have resulted have\ncaused as much problem for the minorities as\nthey had before the 60s.  Anger and frustration\nare just as evident.
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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
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World War II, also, The Second World War, or WWII, was the global military conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945. World War II was the largest and deadliest war in history.\n\nThe war began between Germany and the Allies. Germany was later joined by Italy, Japan, and others, jointly known as the Axis. The Allies at first were made up of Poland, the United Kingdom, France, and others. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and in December, Japan attacked the United States. China, which had been at war with Japan since the mid-1930s, also joined the Allies, as eventually did a number of other countries.\n\nItaly surrendered to and then joined the Allies in late 1943. Germany surrendered to the Allies in May of 1945. The war ended on 2 September 1945 with the formal surrender of Japan.\n\nApproximately 62 million people died in the war. Most were civilians, as a result of the large-scale aerial bombing of cities, disease, starvation, and genocide (see the Holocaust). It is guessed that the Soviet Union suffered around 23 million deaths, and that China suffered about 10 million. Poland suffered the most deaths in proportion to its population of any country, losing 5.6 million out of a pre-war population of 34.8 million.\n\nThe war was responsible for the re-drawing of national boundaries and the creation of new nations, the end of western colonialism, and the beginning of the Cold War. [1]\n\nAfter World War II, Europe was informally partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. Western Europe largely aligned as NATO, and Eastern Europe largely as the Warsaw pact. There was a fundamental shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to the new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, with significant boundary changes and displacement of people as the Soviet Union's borders shifted westwards.\n\nIn Asia, the United States' military occupation of Japan led to Japan's democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers, such as India, Indonesia, and Vietnam, began their road to independence.\n\nFinally, the war saw a number of newly developed weapons that were used against either military and civilian targets. Atomic weapons, long range missiles, jet aircraft, and radar, are only a few of many wartime inventions that changed the nature of future conflict.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WW_2
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Issues left over from WWII:\n\n1)  We still have bases in Germany and Japan.  Neither country wants our bases to be removed.\n\n2)  Technically, some countries still owe us monetary debt from WWII.  Over the years, the U.S. made concession after concession about what percentage of these debts would actually have to be repaid.  Probably in the 1960s or 1970s, France, in typical form, bristled at our inquiries as to when they intended to pay their remaining obligations.  The French foreign minister, in his own haughty way, replied "A debt repaid too quickly is a sign of ingratitude"\n\n3)  The conclusion of WWII gave rise to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.  Now, Iran's president is claiming that we unfairly foisted the Jewish problem on the Arabs, Persians, and Palestinians.\n\n4)  There is still some property (such as artwork) whose ownership is still being debated.  A lot of this artwork was seized by the Nazis.\n\n5)  German reunification is probably considered complete, but it will take decades for the country to recover completely.  For example, many East German youths ended up being uneducated street punks, while children in West Germany had the education their parents intended for them.  I once saw a 60-minutes episode about this.  A woman had two sons, and was only able to leave with one.  The son she raised grew up to be a successful professional (architecture, I believe).  The other son dropped out of high school and had no ambition to improve himself.  Had these two sons remained together, they probably we have turned out similarly.