Best/Worst Presidents

[Mr Khan]

Marks said:

Adinnieken said:

SamuelRSmith said:

Worst:

1 - FDR: soviet-style planning of agriculture, introduction of soviet-style rationing system, looking up citizens for the "crime" for being of Japanese decent, laws controlling gold ownership, public-works programs that led to the ideas of Keynes being locked into the political mindset until even today, questionable actions in regard to dealing with Japan before Pearl Harbour.

3 - Wilson: Prohibition. Federal Reserve.

Without either of these two men, your sorry ass would be speaking German. 

 

You mean without Josef Stalin our sorry asses would be speaking German. The Russians did way more than the rest of the allies, and were the first to reach Berlin. 

And don't use the line that America's aid helped the USSR beat Germany. I did an entire essay on lend-lease in history class last semester. Yes the Americans sent war materials, food, resources, etc. but the majority came in late 1944 and 1945, after the decisive battles of Moscow and Stalingrad when the USSR turned the tide. 

I will agree with that. American intervention likely made more of a difference in Europe in WWI than in Europe in WWII. Of course, our intervention was decisive in the Pacific. If the Japanese had felt they could get away with an invasion of Malaysia and the Dutch East Indies without having to boot the US out of the Philippines as well, they likely would have had the appropriate resources to win. Fighting America was too much of a drain on their resources, and the odd thing was, the Japanese high command knew it before they started.