The Saar os a completely different situation. The Treaty of Versailles only gave France control of the area until 1935 at which time the area would have a plebiscite to determine the regions future status. The the Nazi Government had nothing to do with Germany getting back the Saar, the...
The U.S. giving back Western Texas and Kentucky made no sense. Its supposed to be a parrallel of Allied Appeasement of Germany but Britain and France only gave away other countries territory not their own and only did so because they wanted a strong Germany that would be a bulwark towards...
Thats garbage. The guy is either misinformed or a liar. Figures from the Social Security Trust Fund at the Time showed that with only moderate average annual growth rate Social Security would meet all or at least most of its obligations for the next 75 years. The program wasn't in any crisis.
If the Soviets hadn't invaded Poland, likely all of Poland would have fallen under Nazi rule. How does preventing that and making it harder for the Nazis to successfully invade the Soviet Union equate to aiding the Axis?
Poland signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1934 and annexed parts of Czechoslovakia when the country was being conquered by Germany. Does that make Poland a German ally?
Shriver would have been a pretty good pick. He founded the peace corp, was ambassador to France, JFK and Bobby's brother in law and held a number of posts under LBJ so him on the ticket might have gained the support of organization Democrats.
If thats so then why did the Soviet the Soviet economy show steady growth from the 1930's through the 1980's with the first economic decline except for World War II being in 1990 or 1991 ? Their was a steady increase in personal per capita and national income steadily increased in the decades...