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[mindmetoo]

I'm reading this essay by one of my students and he argues America started WW II. Apparently America didn't join the UN back in, oh, 1935 and this started WWII. You know by not joining an organization that didn't exist until 1946, it somehow made Hitler launch a European land war...

If I recall, Wilson opposed all the cracked war reparations which caused WWII.

Anyone get the feeling Korean teachers have little to tell Japanese textbook publishers about the importance of historical accuracy?

[JZer]

[Dev]

I read in a Korean book that America and England encouraged Japan to invade Korea and even went so far as to provide financial support.

This wouldn't surprise me as 60 Minutes once reported that America gave Saddam Hussein permission to invade Kuwait by not opposing the proposition when Saddam presented it to America. They basically said "We don't care what you do Saddam." and then after he did it, they started the first Gulf war and labled Saddam a villian.

[JZer]

Here is one account:

After Woodrow Wilson failed to convince Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau to support his Fourteen Points, the conference settled on discussing the possibility of a League of Nations. After most points were agreed on, the written document detailing the League was brought back to the U.S. to be approved by Congress. Congress objected only to Article 10, which stated that an attack on any member of the League would be considered an attack on all members, who would be expected to support, if not join in on the attacked country's side. Wilson, disheartened, returned to Paris in March after all the diplomats had reviewed the League outline with their respective governments. Without the approval of Congress, Clemenceau noted Wilson's weak position and furthered the interests of Britain and France, opposed by Wilson. Germany was forced to accept full blame, which the new governmant disliked, and so resigned. Germany was being asked to accept all responsibility, lose all colonies and some home land, and to pay the Allies of World War I 33 billion dollars. Wilson would not sign these treaties, and so the United States signed separate treaties with Germany, approved by Congress.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Peace_Conference%2C_1919

[JZer]

[mindmetoo]

[Wangja]

[JZer]

[itaewonguy]

I heard that coperations in America, GErman, England started the war so they could make billions from the materials sold in the war..
which they did end up making in the end anyway!
people get rich during wars.. sometimes you just wonder if they start them , blame someone else on purpose so they can make BILLIONS!!

[Pyongshin Sangja]

I heard that you're a bunch of idiots better suited to figuring out the simple past tense.

I heard that if you add the price of eggs in China to America's criminal responsibilty for thousands of years of European history you can get it to equal this:



Clearly, the American running dogs bear all responsibility for this.

[Beej]

[JZer]

[Satori]

It's just so hard to keep track of who's wrong these days!

[MorgolKing]

Well when reading textbooks or watching the news you'll quickly find that anyone is subject to be blamed for anything and everything. The subject of the criticism just depends on the source and motivation.

[The Bobster]

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