How America planned for an attack on BRITAIN in 1930 with bombing raids and chemical weapons

[Munin]

What if?

How the world could have looked a lot different today if Hitler & Hirohito didn't decide to start a rabble in Europe and Asia ...

How America planned to destroy BRITAIN in 1930 with bombing raids and chemical weapons Daily Mail Online

 

[jwoodie]

Informative and preposterous at the same time.

 

[Agit8r]

In 1930, both houses of congress and the presidency were Republican, so not very surprising.

71st United States Congress - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[whitehall]

Hard to believe that the US was prepared for a war with freaking Canada in 1931 but unprepared for a war with Japan in 1941. It should be noted that the US had virtually no intelligence network in place during the 30's. Assumptions about the Japanese being nearsighted and having balance problems that prevented them from flying a plane were actually believed by the bumbling bureaucrats who were in charge of defending the U.S. Not only did we lose 3,000 Sailors at Pearl Harbor because of bumbling bureaucrats but we lost an entire army in the Philippines by April of 1942 because MacArthur forgot he was the commander of the area most likely to be struck in the opening day of hostilities.

 

[bodecea]

In 1930, both houses of congress and the presidency were Republican, so not very surprising.

71st United States Congress - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

They really liked Mussolini...and Hitler when he came to power.

 

[whitehall]

In 1930, both houses of congress and the presidency were Republican, so not very surprising.

71st United States Congress - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

They really liked Mussolini...and Hitler when he came to power.

For some real perspective read "In the Garden of the Beasts" by Eric Larson. It's an account of the life of the US Ambassador to Germany during the 30's. It seems that FDR was well aware of Nazi atrocities but he was only interested in obtaining the (WW1) war reparations that Germany was responsible to pay.

 

[Agit8r]

In 1930, both houses of congress and the presidency were Republican, so not very surprising.

71st United States Congress - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

They really liked Mussolini...and Hitler when he came to power.

Yeah, Hoover wanted the US to appease Hitler.

 

[konradv]

Looks like junk history to me. At best it's a piece of "war gaming as exercise", done all the time at War Colleges, but not to be taken as a serious plan for the future.