Here is one analyst's comments earlier today:
On September 3, Prime Minister Chamberlain went to the airwaves to announce to the British people that a state of war existed between their country and Germany. World War II had begun.The Germans were already inside Poland and plunging forward. They had been planning this for some time; since they took the rest of Czechoslovakia, earlier in the year.
World War II saw a lot of people killed, both military and civilian. It showed the danger of "scientific thinking" run amok.♠ It showed (once again) that nations with polar opposite ideologies could unite against a nation with a third ideology.&nbwp; And, it brought the US out of the Great Depression. That last was not a sufficient reason for a World War.
Regards — Cliff
♠ The word "amok" has interesting origins, and not what I would have thought. My dictionary says "ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: via Portuguese amouco, from Malay amok ‘rushing in a frenzy.’ Early use was as a noun denoting a Malay in a homicidal frenzy; the adverb use dates from the late 17th cent."
There remain a considerable number of historians who maintain that FDR used a number of behind the scenes political maneuvers that conspired to lead the US into the war...believing that it would bring us out of the lingering effects of the depression and create the means for an all powerful central Federal government that would serve as the centerpiece for what is referred to as a democratic socialist form of government.
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