WWI and WWII Discussion

[J. J.]

Who said that a conditional surrender would have to be in 1946/7? They were willing to do it in 1945, prior to Hiroshima!

As I've cited previously, there was serious opposition in the Imperial Japanese Cabinet to surrender after the Nagasaki Bomb was dropped.  Even after that a group of Army officers attempted to seize the Emperor's surrender broadcast and destroy it, invading the Imperial Compound to do it.,  They then tried to assassinate the Prime Minister, Suzuki, and did succeed in burning his residence; he barely escaped.

That does not indicate a predisposition to surrender!

[J. J.]

Flyers, do some research on Woodrow Wilson's vision of post war Europe and please adjust your statements, and try not to be such a bigoted murderer with your torpedo statement, in case you haven't noticed, it's not "trendy" or "cool" to tow that American IRA bullsh**t, if Ireland has moved past it, so can your fat American ass.

Even though I'm an Anglophile, I think Hockey has a point regarding the Lusitania.  However, it was the Zimmerman Note, a real threat, that sparked the US entry into WWI.

[J. J.]

The Zimmerman Note said that Germany would urge Mexico to invade if the United States entered the war!

Yet the prospect that Mexican-German alliance was in the offing is really what sent the US into the war.  It wasn't the Lusitania, though that helped move public opinion.