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View Poll Results: Should America have lost One Million soldiers to bring total defeat to Germany(WWI)?
YES, to avoid the known ills caused from WWI.. 2 28.57%
NO, the ills were bad form WWI but the world survived 2 28.57%
Other, maybe there another way.. 1 14.29%
Don't Know, the wimp answer.. 2 28.57%
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I wimped out because regardless of the repecussions of WWI, WWII was more about Hitler's facism, etc. and you did not include that as a choice on your ballot.

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I wimped out because regardless of the repecussions of WWI, WWII was more about Hitler's facism, etc. and you did not include that as a choice on your ballot.

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I argue that if WWI had been total victory there would have been no Hitler to rise to power in Germany. It militarism days would have been over just like the South's was after the Civil War.
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I argue that if WWI had been total victory there would have been no Hitler to rise to power in Germany. It militarism days would have been over just like the South's was after the Civil War.

I don't want to argue, I'm a wimp.


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This was a nice discussion and it is continued under the name of WWI on another forum.
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