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Line 32: − − == Mistakes == − − *You seem to suggest that the Soviet Union conquered Finland, in fact they annexed just a few border regions. − *The British did not fortify the Maginot Line, that was solely the job of the French. − *You should specify that the Vichy regime controlled only part of France that was not directly occupied by Germany. − *The Free French continued to fight beyond the liberation of Paris, your wording implies they simply stopped at this point. − *Operation Sea lion was the name of the proposed invasion of Britain, not the bombing beforehand, and it was of course never put into action. − *I think you oversimplify the invasions of the Balkans and Greece when you say that Germany ‘simply invaded them and conquered them’ − *You call the Soviet Army the ‘most vicious’ without anything to support such an assertion. − *You say ‘Russians never surrender’, whilst of course in the Leningrad case in particular they showed extreme resilience, masses of Russian POWs were taken during the war. − *Mengele’s Ph.D was not based on Darwinian Evolution. I would strongly suggest you cease trying to make any sort of political points of the back of one of the worst atrocities in human history. − *You fail to mention of the key events in the intelligence war, the capture of Enigma machines and codes of which there are several examples. − *Your claims about Peral Harbour being known about have only some truth to them. Certainly there were many signs that should have been picked up on, but they were not. This was largely due to mistakes lower down the chain of command. If I remember rightly the raid was picked up on radar but was wrongly assumed by some/someone to have been a group of US planes. − *I think your claim about the Coral Sea is slightly wrong. It was the first naval battle when the opposing ships never sighted each other, but carrier planes had been used in earlier months. − *You also fail to mention a key intelligence trick the US used in order to determine that an attack on Midway was about to take place. − *You seem to imply that the US forces were involved in the Battle of El Alamein, which is incorrect. − *You seem to have some rather dubious criticisms of Truman, the fact that he enjoyed playing cards is completely irrelevant to anything else in the lecture, and to say he ws out of his depth seems to be more your personal opinion than the general consensus amongst historians. − *Your statement “Just as the American soldiers had defeated Germany in World War I, the Americans did it again” seems to omit any reference to the huge sacrifices made by the other Allies, especially the Soviet Union. − *Operation Overlord was the name for the invasion of Normandy and the establishment of a foothold, not a catch-all term for liberating the whole of continental Europe. − *D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, but not the largest ever invasion. − *”There were so many ships and people in the ocean that it obscured the water below” is more a poetic description than a fact, as should be clarified. − *You also clearly state that the Americans overpowerd the D-day defenders, without mentioning that of the 5 landing beaches 2 were taken by the British and 1 by the Canadians. − *You fail to mention the distinctive tactics used by Patton which played the greatest role in his success. − *You very much oversimplify the German resistance by saying they were simply routed everywhere. − *Patton did not simply ‘roll through France, Belgium, Luxembourg etc’, especially since his line of advance was south of that. It was only with the Battle of the Bulge that he moved north. − *You completely fail to mention any other commanders, and omit massive operations such as Marketgarden. − *It was the Free French forces who originally entered the city, not the Americans. − *You vastly oversimplify the implications of allowing Patton to continue, which would have essentially led to war with the Soviet Union. − *The Enola Gay was the name of one specific plane that dropped the 1st atomic bomb, not the name of all the planes involved. − *Josef Mengele did not simply flee to Brazil, in fact he did not do so until 1949. − *You fail to mention the US opposition to Soviet help against Japan, and imply Roosevelt was completely for it. − *<b>The Berlin airlift began in June 1948 and ran into 1949, not 1949 – 1950 as you claim.</b> − *You seem to imply that Kennedy was somehow lazy or negligent regarding the building of the wall. Although nothing practical was done, it was not really feasible for the US to actively oppose the wall’s construction, with actual intervention surely leading to war. − *You seem to suggest the development of ICBMs somehow helped the development of spying, which makes little sense. − *The U2 spy plane was shot down and did not simply ‘fall to earth’. − *You fail to mention that the pilot was released as part of a prisoner swap. − *You seem to imply that Truman stopped MacArthur from achieving victory in the Korean War. MacArthur was fired because he wanted to use nuclear weapons against China! − *Your statement that China is completely communist is not true, China is actually quite open to the free market these days and becoming more so. It is almost certainly true that there is no such thing as a ‘true communist’ country since none have ever lived up to Marx’s actual aims. − − These are just the ones where I could actually identify factual errors, and there are likely others. In general you seem to oversimplify many matters and downplay non-American activities, particularly in WWII. [[User:RobertWDP|RobertWDP]] 17:23, 24 February 2009 (EST)
Talk:World History Lecture Twelve (view source)
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